Raymond Sun

  1. Associate Professor
Email Addresssunray@wsu.edu
LocationWilson-Short Hall 339

Biography

Education

  • PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1992
  • MA, The Johns Hopkins University 1986
  • MA, University College Cork (Republic of Ireland) 1983
  • BA, Swarthmore College, 1982

Research and Teaching Interests

Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Rescue and Resistance in the Holocaust; History of the World Wars; History of Nazi Germany; War, Memory, and Society.

Publications

Book

  • Before the Enemy Is Within Our Walls: Catholic Workers in Cologne, 1885–1912: A Social, Cultural and Political History (Boston: Humanities Press, Inc., a subsidiary of Brill Academic Publishers, 1999).
Articles
  • “Hiding in Plain Sight: Gender, Faith, and the Conflicted Legacies of a Dutch Rescuer,” in Judy Baumel-Schwartz, ed., Their Brothers’ Keeper: Jews Saving Jews During the Holocaust (Peter Lang Publishing, Bern, Switzerland, 2021), pp. 87-102.
  • Teaching During the Pandemic:  Agency, Empathy, and Humility,” in Creating Under Corona, Judy Baumel-Schwartz, ed.  Digital book in English and Hebrew (The Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, 2020), pp. 139-40.
  • “’Remembering is Not an Innocent Act’:  Reflections on Postwar German War Memory and Peace Studies,” in Noriko Kawamura, Yoichiro Murakami, and Shin Chiba, eds., Building New Pathway to Peace  (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011)
  • “Finding Light in the Darkness? The Historical Treatment of Genocide as a Template for the Field of Hate Studies,” Journal of Hate Studies Vol. 3, No. 1 (2003–04): 167–75.“‘Hammer Blow”: Work, the Workplace, and the Culture of Masculinity among Catholic Workers in the Weimar Republic,” in Central European History 37, No. 2 (Summer 2004): 245–71.
  • “Catholic–Marxist Competition in the Working-Class Parishes of Cologne during the Weimar Republic,” in Catholic Historical Review 83, No. 1 (January 1997): 20–43.
Media and Public Outreach
  • Fallen Cougars, a digital exhibit of +225 war dead from Washington State College during the Second World War, 2017 to the present. Opened December 2021.

    Honors & Awards

    • 2020-2021 WSU Center for Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship
    • 2018 WSU Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction
    • 2007 Elected to the WSU President’s Teaching Academy
    • 1999–2000 William F. Mullen Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University