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CURRICULUM VITAE(updated 2/7/2013)
Gesine Gerhard
Department of History
University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, CA 95211
(209) 946-2146
CURRENT POSSITION
2012 – present Associate Dean, Director of General Education
2006 – presentAssociate Professor, University of the Pacific
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2011-2012Interim Co-Director of Humanities Center
2007 – 2012 Director of Gender Studies Program
1999 – 2006Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific
Spring 1999Graduate Instructor, University of Iowa
Fall 1998Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa
Fall 1996Graduate Instructor, University of Iowa
1995 – 1996Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa
EDUCATION
2000Ph.D., Modern German History, University of Iowa
Dissertation Title: “Peasants into Farmers: Agriculture and Democracy in ModernGermany”
1994M.A., History, Political Science and Italian Studies
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
1992-1993Visiting student, History Department, University of Bologna, Italy
1991B.A., History, Free University of Berlin, Germany
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
12/2011CAPD Grant
11/2011Pacific Arts and Lecture Series (co-authored with Daniel Ebbers)
06/2011Scholarly/Artistic Activity Grant, University of the Pacific
05/2010Thomas J. Long Foundation Core Fellowship for Faculty
04/2010College Pacific Fund (co-authored with Xiaojing Zhou and Andreea Boboc)
05/2010CAPD Grant (co-authored with Andreea Boboc and Xiaojing Zhou)
03/2009College Pacific Fund, (co-authored with Michelle Maloney)
02/2009University Priorities Award (co-authored with Michelle Maloney)
12/2008Innovation Fund Grant, University of the Pacific
04/2008Thomas J. Long Foundation Core Fellowship for Faculty
10/2007University Priorities Award (co-authored with Chris Goff)
05/2007Eberhardt Teacher/Scholar Award, University of the Pacific
12/2006Scholarly/Artistic Activity Grant, University of the Pacific
07/2005Amos Simpson Award for the best paper in European history presented at the Southern Historical Association’s annual meeting
06/2004Eberhardt Research Fellowship, University of the Pacific
07/2003Scholarly/Artistic Activity Grant, University of the Pacific
06/2002Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), summer seminar for professors teaching Holocaust classes
06/2002CAPD grant, University of the Pacific
06/2001 – 08/2001Eberhardt Research Fellowship, University of the Pacific
09/1997 - 07/1998Resident Fellow at the Institute for European History,
Mainz, Germany
1996 - 1997T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Award,
University of Iowa
1995 - 1996Laurence Lafore Dissertation Fellowship, History Department,
University of Iowa
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“Food in the Third Reich.” Book manuscript under contract with AltaMira Press. In
Progress.
“The Modernization Dilemma: Agrarian Policies in Nazi Germany.” Under Review.
“Das Bild der Bauern in der modernen Industriegesellschaft – Störenfriede oder
Schoßkinder der Industriegesellschaft? [The Image of the Peasant in Modern Industrial Society--Spongers of the State or Threatened
Species?” In Das Bild des Bauern. Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmungen vom Mittelalter bis ins 21. Jahrhundert [The Image of the Peasant. Self- and Other Representations from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century], edited by Daniela Münkel and Frank Uekötter. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, pp. 111-130.
“Change in the European Countryside: Peasants and Democracy in Germany, 1935-55.”
In War, Agriculture and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s, edited by Paul Brassley, Yves Segers and Leen Van Molle. New York/London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 195-208.
“Food as a Weapon. Agricultural Sciences and the Building of a Greater German
Empire.” In Food, Culture and Society 14, no. 3 (2011): 335-351.
“Food and Genocide. Nazi Agrarian Food Policy in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union.” In Contemporary European History 18, no. 1
(2009): 45-65.
“Breeding Pigs and People for the Third Reich: Richard Walter Darré’s Agrarian Ideology.” In How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, edited by Franz-Josef Brueggemeier, Mark Cioc, and Thomas Zeller. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005, pp. 129-146.
“R.W. Darré: Naturschützer oder ‘Rassenzüchter’?” [R.W. Darré: Environmentalist or Nazi Geneticist?]. In Naturschutz und Nationalsozialismus [Conservation of Nature and Nazism], edited by Joachim Radkau and Frank Uekötter. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2003, pp. 257-272.
“Politische Bauernbewegungen zwischen Systemkonformität und –opposition: Der Deutsche Bauernverband (DBV) und die politische Eingliederung der Bauern in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.” [Political Peasant Movements between System Conformity and Opposition: The German Peasant League and the Political Integration of Peasants into West Germany]. In Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft [Austrian Journal for Historical Sciences] 13, no. 2 (2002): 129-138.
“Das Ende der deutschen Bauernfrage: Ländliche Gesellschaft im Umbruch.” [The End of the German Agrarian Question: Rural Society in Transition]. In Der lange Abschied vom Agrarland. Agrarpolitik, Landwirtschaft und ländliche Gesellschaft zwischen Weimar und Bonn [The Long Farewell from Agrarian Society. Agrarian Politics, Agriculture and Rural Society between Weimar and Bonn], edited by Daniela Münkel. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2000, pp. 124-142.
TEXT BOOKS
“The Unification of Germany, 1871.” In Events that Changed Germany since 1848, edited by Frank W. Thackeray. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004, pp. 29-41.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Ordnung und Autarkie. Die Geschichte der deutschen Landbauforschung,
Agrarökonomieund ländlichen Sozialwissenschaften im Spiegel von Forschungsdienst und DFG (1920-1970), by Willi Oberkrome. Historia Agraria (forthcoming).
Review of Wir Frauen vom Land: Wie couragierte Landfrauen den Aufbruch wagten, by
Anke Sawahn and Die Frauenlobby vom Land: Die Landfrauenbewegung in Deutschland und ihre Funktionärinnen 1898 bis 1948, by Anke Sawahn. Agricultural History 86, no. 2 (2012): 99-102.
Review of Globalization and European Integration. The Changing Role of Farmers in the Common Agricultural Policy, by Marjoleine Hennis. Published by H-German, May 2007. (July 17, 2012).
Review of Natürliche Ordnungen und politische Allianzen. Biologische und biochemische Forschung an Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten 1933-1945, by Bernd Gausemeier. Neue Politische Literatur 51 (2006): 155-156.
Review of Reguliertes Land. Agrarpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1930-1960, edited by Ernst Langthaler and Josef Redl. Published by H-German, July 2006. (November 28, 2006).
Review of “Fällt der Bauer, Stürzt der Staat.” Deutschnationale Agrarpolitik 1928-1933, by Andreas Müller. Published by H-German, January 2006. (June 29, 2006).
Review of Kalorien, Kautschuk, Karrieren. Pflanzenzüchtung und landwirtschaftliche Forschung in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten 1933-1945, by Susanne Heim. Published by H-Soz-u-Kult, September 13, 2004. (January 24, 2005).
Review of “Rasse und Raum.” Agrarpolitik, Sozial- und Raumplanung im NS-Staat, by Uwe Mai. Published by H-German, March 2004, cross posted by H-Rural, April 2004. (19 May 2004).
Review of The Culture of German Environmentalism. Anxieties, Visions, Realities, edited by Axel Goodbody. Published by H-German, July 2003. (28 January 2004).
Review of Agrarmodernisierung und ökologische Folgen. Westfalen vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Karl Ditt, Rita Gudermann, and Norwich Rüße. Environmental History 8, no. 3 (2003): 485-487.
Review of Auf dem Weg zum sozialistischen Dorf? Zum Wandel der dörflichen Lebenswelt in der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1952-1969, by Antonia Humm. Published by H-Soz-u-Kult, February 2000. (28 January 2004).
CONFERENCE PAPERS/WORKSHOPS
“Food Justice under Duress,” Food Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of
Illinois atChicago, April 2013 (invited presenter)
“The War on the Eastern Front: Food, Starvation and Genocide,” Conference on
World War II, Nazi Crimes and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Moscow, Russia, December 2012
“The Power of Food: Nazi Food Policy and the Starvation of the Soviet Union,” ICAF
Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, August 2011
“The Modernization Dilemma: Agrarian Policies in Nazi Germany,” Centro De
Estudios Avanzados, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 2011 (invited presenter)
“The Image of the Peasant in West Germany: “Spongers” of the State or “Threatened
Species?”” Rural History Conference, University of Sussex, UK, September 2010
“Images of the Peasant in Germany, Austria and the United States.” Panel organizer,
Rural History Conference, University of Sussex, UK, September2010
“Change in the European Countryside: Peasants and Democracy in Germany, 1935-55”
Conference on Rural Change in Europe Between 1935 and 1955, Leuven, Belgium, November 2009
“Confronting the Past: Living with the Legacy of their Father, Herbert Backe”
German Studies Association, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2008
“Agricultural Sciences and the Building of a Greater German Empire”
Center for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2008 (invited presenter)
“The Russian Stomach is Stretchable”: Nazi German Food Policy and Genocide
Agricultural History Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts,June 2006
“Food—Nature—War: The Inner History of Nazi Agrarian Politics”
Southern Historical Association Conference, Memphis, November 2004
“R.W. Darré: Naturschützer oder ‘Rassenzüchter’? [R.W. Darré: Environmentalist or
Nazi Geneticist?] International conference “Naturschutz und Nationalsozialismus” [Conservation of Nature and Nazism], Berlin, Germany, July 2002
“Der lange Abschied vom Agrarland. Agrarpolitik, Landwirtschaft und ländliche Gesellschaft zwischen Weimar und Bonn. [The Long Farewell from Agrarian Society. Agrarian Politics, Agriculture and Rural Society between Weimar and Bonn], Annual Workshop “Arbeitskreis für die Geschichte des Landes Niedersachsen” in Göttingen (Germany), November 1999
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Board, Jahrbuch für die Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, 2010 – present
Executive Editor, Department of History Newsletter, 2008-2010, 2012
Panel Organizer for Rural History Conference, University of Sussex, UK, September
2010
Panel Organizer for Tenth Lessons and Legacies Conference, November 2008
Peer Reviewer for Agricultural History
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Event Co-Organizer “Voices of Light:
The Passion of Joan of Arc”2012
Gender and War Student Research Conference
Planning Committee, Chair2011 – 2012
Assessment Coordinator, History Department 2011 – 2012
Co-Director Humanities Center 2011 – 2012
Gender Studies Program, Director2007 – 2012
University Promotion and Tenure Committee2010 – 2012
Presidential Task Force Diversity2010 – 2012
Promotion and Tenure Committee for
Marcia Hernandez, ChairFall 2010
Promotion Committee for Nicolas Waldvogel,
Outside Faculty MemberFall 2010
Third Year Review Committee for Marisela Ramos,
ChairFall 2010
Women’s Resource Center Director
Search Committee, MemberFall 2010
Gender, Race and Space Research Conference
Planning Committee, Chair2010
Innovation Fund Award Committee2009 – 2011
Outside Faculty Member on May Mahala’s
Third Year Review CommitteeFall 2009
Outside Faculty Member on Debbie Schooler’s
Third Year ReviewFall 2009
University GE Committee, Chair2008 – February 2010
University GE Committee, Member2010 – 2011
University Diversity Curriculum Committee2008 – present
Gender & Performing Arts Festival Planning
Committee, Chair
Chair of Tomomi Kinukawa’s Third Year
Review CommitteeFall 2008
Outside Faculty Member on Andreea Boboc’s
Third Year Review CommitteeFall 2008
Gender and Science Student Research Conference
Planning Committee2007 – 2008
Latin America Search Committee, Chair2006 – 2007
Outside Faculty Member on Nicolas Waldvogel’s
P&T CommitteeFall 2006
Outside Faculty Member on Jim Haffner’s
P&T CommitteeFall 2006
Faculty Research Committee2005 – 2008
Faculty Mentor, Founders Scholars Program2003 – 2007
Mentor I Planning Committee2003 – 2005
COPA Faculty advisor2003 – 2007
Curriculum Committee2002 – 2005
Gender Studies Board2000 – present
Outside Faculty Member on Chris Goff’s
Third Year Review CommitteeFall 2004
COP Council2000 – 2003
COP Council Nominating Committee2001 – 2002
COP Executive Council2002 – 2003
Courses and Standards Committee2000 – 2003
Childcare Committee2000 – 2002
Recognition for “Dedication to Academic Excellence and
Continued Support of Pacific’s Fraternal Organizations,” Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils, September 2003
CLASSES TAUGHT
At Pacific:
Western Civilization, Part I
Western Civilization, Part II
Europe in Turmoil, 1900-1945
History of the Holocaust
History Goes to Hollywood
Europe Since 1945
History of Modern Germany
History of American Immigration
Mentor I/Pacific Seminar I
Mentor I/Pacific Seminar I, Honors Program
Introduction to Gender Studies
The Holocaust in Film (CPCE)
Other teaching experiences:
European Experience, 1750 to the Present
Twentieth Century Crises
SELECTED GUEST LECTURES/PUBLIC TALKS
“Nazi War Crimes in the USSR: German Food Policy and the Starvation of Soviet
Prisoners of War,” Weberpoint Coffee Club, February 2013
“To Eat or Not To Eat: The Starvation of Soviet POWs during the Second World War,”
Social Science Colloquium, October 2011
“The German Starvation of the Soviet Union During the Second World War,” State of the
Arts Lecture, May 2010
“Remembering the Holocaust,” Yom Hashoah, Phi Alpha Theta and Pacific
Hillel, April 2009
“Nazi Perpetrator or Loving Husband and Father? The Life and Legacy of Herbert
Backe,” OSHER Lecture, February/March 2009
“History on Film: The Gladiator,” Pacific History Club, May 2008
“Historical Research—A Treasure Hunt,” HIST 70 Historical Imagination, Spring 2007
Panel Participant, University Diversity Retreat, May 2007
“The Ritchie Boys,” Film screening and panel discussion, in cooperation with the
Temple Israel, Stockton, April 2006
“Women and the Holocaust,” History Department: Women and War, February 2005
“The Idea of Europe,” School of International Studies, Perspectives on World History,
February 2005
“Research Methods,” History Department: Capstone Seminar, September 2004
“What is History? Or How Do We Know What We Know About the Past?” Mentor I,
General Session, August 2004
“Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust,” Gender Studies: Introduction to Gender
Studies, March 2004
“World War I: Origins, Experience, Legacy,” Stockton Unified School District,
February 2004
“World War II,” Stockton Unified School District, February 2004
“History and Memory: How Do We Remember the Holocaust?” Honors Program:
Peace and War, December 2003
“What is History?” Faculty Lecture Showcasing the Mentor Program, Parent & Family
Weekend, October 2003
“What is History? Or How Do We Know What We Know About the Past?” Mentor I,
General Session, September 2003
“What is an Education?” Faculty Lecture, Summer Advising Sessions I, II, and III,
Summer 2003
“The Holocaust,” Tokay High School, February 2003
“Surviving the Holocaust,” Guest lecture with Holocaust survivors, History Department
and GLOBE project, October 2002
“Topics in European History,” GLOBE project: Summer Institute, July 2002
“Ending World War II: From Yalta to Berlin,” History Department: World War II,
Spring 2001
“Agriculture in the Third Reich: The Nazis and the Ideology of Soil,” Geosciences
Department: Soil, Water, and War, Fall 2000
“Nation-building in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparison with Germany,” History
Department, April 2000
“Construction of Motherhood in German History,” Gender Studies: Introduction to
Gender Studies, April 2000
LANGUAGES
German (mother tongue)
English (native fluency)
Italian (fluent)
French (reading, speaking, listening)
Latin (reading)