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James Madison University

History Dept MSC 2001

58 Bluestone Drive

Harrisonburg VA  22807

U.S.A.

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Assistant professor of history

Education
Ph.D., Rutgers University

M.A. University of Georgia, Athens

B.A. Swarthmore College

Fields and specialties
Modern Central European history; European colonialism; global and comparative history

Teaching areas
Modern Europe; Modern Germany; European Colonialism; Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Global and World History

Research interests
German ideologies of colonialism; German-Jewish assimilation; antisemitism and racism; violence

Selected publications and presentations
“Colonialism and the Antisemitic Movement in Imperial Germany,” in German Colonialism in a Global Age, 1884-1945, edited by Geoff Eley and Bradley D. Naranch, Duke University Press, 2013.

Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany,  The University of Michigan Press, 2012. 

“‘Coddling’ Africans Abroad:  Colonial Director Paul Kayser and the Education of Africans in Germany, 1891-96.”  Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 9,  no. 1 (2008). 

Radio interview on German colonialism with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities program “With Good Reason,” aired 2012 December 1 (http://www.prx.org/pieces/88925-after-the-berlin-wall-came-down#description)