- Associate Professor
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