Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Kühne
March 2014
Strassler Family Chair of Holocaust History, Professor of History, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester MA 01610, USA, phone (1) 508-793-7523, email:
Private: 126 Westbourne Terrace, Brookline MA 02446, USA, phone (1) 508-410-0020, email
Citizenship: German (Permanent Resident, USA)
Languages: German, English, and French
Who is Who in America, 2008-now
Education
Habilitation (post-doc degree), University of Bielefeld, Germany, 2003,Venia Legendi in Modern History
Dr. phil. (Ph.D.), University of Tübingen, Germany, 1992,summa cum laude
State Exam (Staatsexamen) in History and Literature, University of Tübingen, 1986 (B.A./M.A. equivalent)
Professional Appointments
Strassler Chair in Holocaust Historyand (Associate/Full) Professor of History, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 2004-now (tenure and promotion to Full: 2007)
Visiting Professor of History, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, summer 2012
Robert Bosch Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago, spring 2004 (withdrawn)
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 2003-04
Visiting Professorof History, University of Weingarten, Germany, 2002-03
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany, winterterm 2001-02
Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1998-2001
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1992-98
Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Tübingen, Germany, 1987-91
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
Visiting Fellowship, Research Group (Graduiertenkolleg) Friends, Patrons, Clients, University of Freiburg, Germany, 2014 (declined)
Leibniz Summer Fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung / Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany, 2013
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2010/11
Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 2010/11
Higgins Seminar in the Humanities, honor awarded by the Higgins School for the Humanities, Clark University, for the newly developed interdisciplinary course Collective Memory and Mass Violence, 2010
Henry J. Leir Luxembourg Center-Clark University Grant for the conference on “Friendship and the Nation,” Luxembourg, 2010
Best syllabus on Nazi Germany / Holocaust, prize awarded by H-German for Holocaust Perpetrators, 2008
Higgins Research Grant, Clark University, 2008
Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 2007-now
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 2003/04, and related grant (one-year salary replacement) from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Germany)
Research Grant, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2000-2001 (one year salary replacement)
Habilitation Grant, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 1998-2000 (two year salary replacement)
Research Grant, Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, 1995
Research Grant, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1995
Prize of the German Bundestagfor Studies in Parliamentarism (Wissenschaftspreis des Deutschen Bundestages für Arbeiten zum Parlamentarismus), 1994
University Service
Director of Graduate Studies, Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2008-2010, 2011-now
Member, Fulbright Committee, Clark University, 2007-2010, 2011-now
Member, Graduate Board (elected committee), Clark University, 2007-2010
Member, Search Committee for the Assistant Professorship in Chinese History, Clark University, 2009/10
Chair, Search Committee for the Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies and Modern Armenian History, Clark University, 2007/08
Member, Search Committee for the Leffell Professorship in Jewish History, Clark University, 2007/08
Member, Steering Committee of the “Difficult Dialogues” Project, Clark University, 2006-2008
Member, Affirmative Action and Sexual Respect Committee, Clark University, 2006-2009
Member, Committee of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Clark University, 2005/06
Organizer, Modern History Colloquium, History Department, Clark University, 2005-2009
Member, Steering Committee of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2004-now
Member, Search Committee for the Chair in Early Modern European History (C4 Professur für Geschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Frühe Neuzeit), University of Konstanz, 1994/95
Member, Committee on Interdisciplinary Teaching, University of Konstanz, 1994-98
Service to the Profession
Series Co-editor, Frieden und Krieg. Beiträge zur Historischen Friedensforschung (Peace and War. Studies in Historical Peace Research), Klartext Press, Essen, Germany, 2001-2012(18 vols.)
Chair, Historical Peace Research Association (Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung), Germany, 1998-2001
Editorial board, Culture, Society and Masculinities,journal, Men’s Studies Press, 2009-now
Committee of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) to evaluate the Research Institute for Military History (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt), Potsdam, Germany, 2005
Consultant to Shooting the War,BBC 4 documentation on World War II, broadcast 2010
Consultant to 100 Deutsche Jahre, Teil 11: Mannsbilder –Männer in Deutschland (“100 German Years, part 11, Images of Men – Men in Germany”), ARD (First German TV channel), broadcast continuously since 1999
Manuscripts and Proposals Reviewed
Berghahn Books
Blackwell Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Palgrave MacMillan
Polity Press
Routledge Publisher
Yale University Press
CanadianJournal of Human Rights
Central European History
Contemporary European History
First World War Studies
Gender & History
German History
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Modern History
Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift
Politische Vierteljahresschrift
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
theologie.geschichte
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Austrian Academy of Science / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
German Academic Exchange Service / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Netherlands
Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF), Austria
Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Germany
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A.
University of Toronto, Connaught Committee, Canada
Volkswagen Foundation, Germany
Conferencesand Workshops Organized
Second International Graduate Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 30 March-1 April 2012
Conference Globalizing Beauty: Aesthetics in the 20th Century, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, 14-16 Oct 2010 (with Hartmut Berghoff, Washington DC)
Public Symposium Holocaust Memory – Legacies of Disaster or Lessons of Cosmopolitanism? Clark University, 29 April 2010 (with Cristina Andriani, Worcester)
Workshop Friendship and the Nation, Henry J. Leir Center-Clark University, Luxembourg, 4-7 March 2010,(with Danny Kaplan, Tel Aviv)
First International Graduate Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 23-26 April 2009
Public Symposium Bridging the Impossible? Confronting Barriers to Dialogue between Germans/ Jews/ Palestinians, Clark University, 1 November 2007
Second Conference of the Interdisciplinary Association of Men’s and Gender Studies, held at the Academy of the DIÖZESE Rottenburg/Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 8-9 November 2002 (with Martin Dinges, Stuttgart).
Interdisciplinary Conference Vom massenhaften gegenseitigen Töten (On Mutual Mass Killing), held at the Evangelic Academy, Loccum/Germany, 2-4 November 2002 (with Peter R. Gleichmann, Hannover, Germany)
First Conference of the Interdisciplinary Association of Men’s and Gender Studies, held at the Academy of the DIÖZESE Rottenburg/Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 1-3 March 2001(with Martin Dinges, Stuttgart)
Interdisciplinary Conference Von der Kriegskultur zur Friedenskultur? Zum Wandel der politischen Mentalität in Deutschland seit 1945 (War Culture into Peace Culture. The Change of Political Mentality in Germany since 1945), held at the Academy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Freudenberg/Siegen, 5-7 November 2000
International Conference Was ist Militärgeschichte? (What is Military History?), University of Bochum, 6-7 November 1998 (with Benjamin Ziemann)
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Historical Association, U.S.A.
Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung, Germany(Historical Peace Research Association)
Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte, Germany (Military History Association)
Deutsches Komitee für die Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Germany(German Comittee on the History of the Second World War)
German Historical Association, U.K.
German Studies Association, U.S.A.
International Association of Genocide Scholars
International Network of Genocide Scholars
Society for Military History, U.S.A.
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, Germany(German Historical Association)
Fields of Research
Cultural and Social History of War and Genocide
The Holocaust and Nazi Germany
History of Masculinities
Body Aesthetics in Modern Global History
Elections and Parties in Modern Germany
Ph.D. Supervisions
Clark University, Primary Advisor:
Cristina Andriani: “Post-Holocaust Trauma and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict:” (co-advised with Jaan Valsiner, Psychology Department; graduated 2013)
Michael Geheran “Keine Kameraden: German-Jewish WWI Veterans under Hitler”
Jody Russell Manning: “Living in the Shadows of Auschwitz and Dachau: Memorial, Community, Symbolism, and the Palimpsest of Memory”
Kimberly Partee:“Dachau, Ravensbruck, Travniki: Comparative Studies in the Training of Holocaust Perpetrators”
Mihai Poliec: “The Civilian Society in Romania and the Holocaust”
Jason Tingler: “Perpetrator Communities During the Holocaust in the District Lublin”
External Committee Member:
Jessica Butler, Boston College: “Sexuality in the Trenches: Male Homosexuality and Masculinities in Germany’s World War I Era”
Teaching
Clark University
Spring 2014
HIST 118, Lecture: Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1918
HIST 234/334, Seminar: History of Racism in Modern Europe
Fall 2013
HIST165, Lecture: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
HIST 237/337, Seminar: The Holocaust Perpetrators
Spring 2013
HIST 153, Lecture: Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
HIST 278/378, Seminar: Collective Memory and Mass Violence
Fall 2012
HIST 042, First Year Seminar: Nazi Germany – Rise and Fall
HIST 236/336, Seminar: Gender, War & Genocide in 20th Century Europe
Spring 2012
HIST 118, Lecture: Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1918
HIST 234/334, Seminar: Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe
Fall 2011
HIST165, Lecture: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
HIST 237/337, Seminar: The Holocaust Perpetrators
Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 on sabbatical leave
Spring 2010
HIST165, Lecture: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
HIST 278/378, Seminar: Collective Memory and Mass Violence (co-taught with Cristina Andriani, Psychology Dept)
Fall 2009
HIST 153, Lecture: Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
HIST 234/334, Seminar: Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe
Spring 2009
HIST118, Lecture: Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1918
HIST 237/337, Seminar: The Holocaust Perpetrators
Fall 2008
HIST 042, First Year Seminar: Nazi Germany – Rise and Fall
HIST 236/336, Seminar: Gender, War & Genocide in 20th Century Europe
Spring 2008
HIST165, Lecture: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
HIST 237/337, Seminar: The Holocaust Perpetrators
Fall 2007
HIST 153, Lecture: Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
HIST 234/334, Seminar: Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe
Spring 2007
HIST 115, Lecture: Authority and Democracy: the History of Modern Central Europe
HIST 237/337, Seminar: The Holocaust Perpetrators
Fall 2006
HIST 153, Lecture: Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
HIST 236/336, Seminar: Gender, War & Genocide in 20th Century Europe
Spring 2006
HIST 143, Lecture: War and Peace: Central Europe in the 20th Century
HIST 237/337, Seminar: The Holocaust Perpetrators
Fall 2005
HIST 142, Lecture: Central Europe in the Long 19thCentury, 1756-1914
HIST 234/334, Seminar: Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe
Spring 2005
HIST 153, Lecture: Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
HIST 267/368, Seminar: The Holocaust: Controversies and Issues
Fall 2004
HIST 115, Lecture: Authority and Democracy: the History of Modern Central Europe
HIST 236/336, Seminar: Gender, War & Genocide in 20th Century Germany
Leibnitz University Hannover
Summer 2012
Lecture: Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1918
Seminar: Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe, 1750-2010
University of Weingarten
Summer 2003
Lecture: Gender History of Modern Europe, 1770-1970 (Geschlechtergeschichte des modernen Europa, 1770-1970)
Introductory Course: Divided Germany, 1949-1961 (Das geteilte Deutschland, 1949-1961)
Lecture Course: The Vietnam War and the United States, 1946-1991 (Der Vietnamkrieg und die USA, 1946-1991)
Lecture Course: The Rise of the Nazi Party, 1922-1934 (Der Aufstieg der NSDAP, 1922-1934)
Advanced Seminar: The National Socialist War and German Society 1918-1995 (Der nationalsozialistische Krieg und die deutsche Gesellschaft, 1918-1995)
Winter 2002/03
Lecture: Imperial Germany, 1967-1918 (Das Deutsche Kaiserreich, 1867-1918)
Advanced Seminar: Europe, 1815-1848/49 (Europa, 1815-1848/49)
Proseminar: Youth in Nazi Germany (Jugend im Nationalsozialismus)
Lecture: Course: Politicization and Democratization in Germany 1848-1919 (Politisierung und Demokratisierung in Deutschland, 1848-1919)
Introductory Course (co-taught with Vadim Oswalt): German History in the 20th Century (Deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts)
University of Tübingen
Winter 2001/02
Seminar: Masculinities and Men’s Lives in Modern History (Männlichkeit und Mannsein im Wandel der Moderne)
University of Konstanz
Winter 1997/98
Proseminar: The Image of the Wehrmacht in Germany after 1945 (Das Bild der Wehrmacht in Deutschland nach 1945)
Course: The Nazi War in War Diaries, War Letters and Memoirs (Der nationalsozialistische Vernichtungskrieg im Spiegel von Kriegstagebüchern, Feldpostbriefen und Erinnerungen)
Summer 1997
Lecture Course: The Vietnam War and the American Society (Der Vietnamkrieg und die amerikanische Gesellschaft)
Proseminar: The Peasant Society in the 19th Century (Die ländliche Gesellschaft im 20. Jahrhundert)
Winter 1996/97
Proseminar: Political Festivals in the 19th Century (Politische Feste im 19. Jahrhundert)
Lecture Course: Controversies on the Nazi War of Annihilation (Kontroversen um den nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungskrieg)
Summer 1996 on leave
Winter 1995/96
Proseminar: Military and Society in Germany after 1945 (Militär und Gesellschaft in Deutschland nach 1945)
Seminar: Mass Motorization and Transportation Politics in the 20th Century (Massenmotorisierung und Verkehrspolitik im 20. Jahrhundert)
Summer 1995
Research Course: Men’s History (Männergeschichte)
Proseminar: The German Youth Movement from Imperial Germany to Nazi Germany (Die deutsche Jugendbewegung vom Kaiserreich zum Nationalsozialismus)
Winter 1994/95
Proseminar: The German Wehrmacht and the Nazi War of Annihilation (Die deutsche Wehrmacht und der nationalsozialistische Vernichtungskrieg)
Lecture Course: Imperial Germany, 1971-1918 (Das Deutsche Kaiserreich, 1871-1918)
Summer 1994
Proseminar:Stalingrad – Experience and Reception of a Battle (Stalingrad – Erfahrung und Wirkung einer Schlacht)
Lecture Course: Elections and Electoral Campaigning in Germany, 1815-1933 (Wahlen und Wahlkämpfe in Deutschland, 1815-1933
Winter 1993/94
Proseminar: Car Culture in the 20th Century (Automobilismus im 20. Jahrhundert)
Lecture Course: War Experience and War Remembrance in the 20th Century (Kriegserfahrung und Kriegserinnerung im 20. Jahrhundert)
Summer 1993
Proseminar: Childhood and Youth in Nazi Germany (Kindheit und Jugend im Nationalsozialismus
Course: Leisure Culture and Consumerism in the 20th Century (Freizeit und Massenkonsum im 20. Jahrhundert)
Winter 1992/93
Course: The Fifties. Ideology, Society, and Politics in the Era Adenauer (Die ‘fuffziger’ Jahre: Mentalität, Gesellschaft und Politik in der Ära Adenauer)
Proseminar: Democratization in Wihelmine Germany (Demokratisierungstendenzen im Wilhelminischen Deutschland)
Summer 1992
Proseminar: Refugees in Germany after 1945 (Fluechtlinge in Deutschland nach 1945)
Leibniz College, Tübingen
1989-91: Introductory Courses in Modern History
Publications
Books – Authored
Belonging and Genocide.Hitler’s Community, 1918-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010; paperback 2013), 216pp.
- Italian: Il male dentro. La comunità di Hitler: psicologia del genocidio e orgoglio nazionale (Rome: Edizioni dell’Altana, 2013)
- Polish: in planning, W.A.B. Publishers, Warsaw, 2014.
Kameradschaft. Die Soldaten des nationalsozialistischen Krieges und das 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, 328 pp. (=Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, vol. 173)
Dreiklassenwahlrecht und Wahlkultur in Preußen 1867-1914. Landtagswahlen zwischen korporativer Tradition und politischem Massenmarkt, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1994. 667 pp. (=Beiträge zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, vol. 99)
Handbuch der Wahlen zum Preußischen Abgeordnetenhaus 1867-1918. Wahlergebnisse, Wahlbündnisse und Wahlkandidaten, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1994. 1056 pp. (=Handbücher zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, vol. 6)
Books – Edited
(with Hartmut Berghoff): Globalizing Beauty. Body Aesthetics in the 20th Century (Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013)
(with Tom Lawson): The Holocaust and Local History (Edgware: Vallentine-Mitchell, 2011) (also published as Holocaust Studies. A Journal of Culture and History, vol. 16, 2011, nos. 1-2)
(with Peter R. Gleichmann): Massenhaftes Töten. Kriege und Genozide im 20. Jahrhundert [Mass Killing: War an Genocide in the 20th Century], (Essen: Klartext, 2004). 418 pp.
(with Cornelia Rauh-Kühne) Raum und Geschichte. Regionale Traditionen und föderative Ordnungen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart [Space and History: Regional Traditions and Federal Orders in Early Modern and Modern History], (Leinfelden: DRW-Verlag, 2001). XIV, 270 pp.
(with Benjamin Ziemann) Was ist Militärgeschichte? [What is Military History?] (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2000). 359 pp.
Von der Kriegskultur zur Friedenskultur? Zum Mentalitätswandel in Deutschland seit 1945 [From War Culture to Peace Culture: Changing Ideologies in Germany since 1945], (Münster: LIT, 2000). 330 pp.
Männergeschichte - Geschlechtergeschichte. Männlichkeit im Wandel der Moderne [Men’s History—Gender History: Masculinities in Modern History], (Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 1996). 220 pp.
- Ditto, Japanese version: Tokio: Kashawa Shobo, 1997.
- Ditto, Korean version: Seoul: SOL Publishing Co., 2001.
Book – Co-authored
Biographisches Handbuch für das Preußische Abgeordnetenhaus 1867-1918, bearb. v. Bernhard Mann unter Mitarbeit von Martin Doerry, Cornelia Rauh und Thomas Kühne, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1988. 651 pp. (=Handbücher zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, vol. 3)
Journal Articles
Thomas Kühne, “Colonialism and the Holocaust. Continuities, Causations, and
Complexities,”Journal of Genocide Research, 15,3 (2013): 339–362
"Great Men and Large Numbers. Undertheorizing a History of Mass Killing," Contemporary European History 21 (2012): 133-143.
“Honor and Violence,” review essay on Isabel V. Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), History Workshop Journal, vol. 62 (2006): 304-310.
„Demokratisierung und Parlamentarisierung: Neue Forschungen zur politischen Entwicklungsfähigkeit Deutschlands vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg,“ Geschichte und Gesellschaft, vol. 31 (2005): 293-316.
Ditto, Japanese translation, inSeiyoshi--Gakuho. Review of Western History (Hiroshima), no. 35 (2008): 45-76.
„Die Leiden der Deutschen am NS-Krieg und die Nicht-Einheit der Geschichte. Walter Kempowskis "Echolot" Teil II,”Neue Politische Literatur 46 (2001): 7-14.
“From a War Culture to a Peace Culture? Changing Political Mentalities in Germany after 1945. Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung, Freudenberg 5-7 November 1999 [Conference Report],” in German History 18 (2000): 230-238.
„Der nationalsozialistische Vernichtungskrieg im kulturellen Kontinuum des 20. Jahrhunderts. Forschungsprobleme und Forschungstendenzen der Gesellschaftsgeschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Zweiter Teil,”Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 40 (2000): 440-486.
„Der nationalsozialistische Vernichtungskrieg und die "ganz normalen" Deutschen. Forschungsprobleme und Forschungstendenzen der Gesellschaftsgeschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Erster Teil,”Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 39 (1999): 580-662.
„Zwischen Männerbund und Volksgemeinschaft: Hitlers Soldaten und der Mythos der Kameradschaft,”Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 38 (1998): 165-189.
„Parlamentarismusgeschichte in Deutschland. Probleme, Erträge und Perspektiven einer Gesamtdarstellung,”Geschichte und Gesellschaft 24 (1998): 320-335.
„Das Deutsche Kaiserreich 1871-1918 und seine politische Kultur: Demokratisierung, Segmentierung, Militarisierung,”Neue Politische Literatur 43 (1998): 206-263.
„Kameradschaft - "das Beste im Leben des Mannes". Die deutschen Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges in erfahrungs- und geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive,”Geschichte und Gesellschaft 22 (1996): 504-529.
„Massenmotorisierung und Verkehrspolitik im 20. Jahrhundert: Technikgeschichte als politische Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte,”Neue Politische Literatur 41 (1996): 196-229.
„Zur Genese der deutschen Proporzkultur im wilhelminischen Preußen,”Politische Vierteljahresschrift 36 (1995): 220-242.
„Wahlrecht - Wahlverhalten - Wahlkultur. Tradition und Innovation in der historischen Wahlforschung,”Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 33 (1993 ): 481-547.
“Le elezioni del parlamento prussiano e il diritto elettorale delle tre classi 1867-1918,”Ricerche di Storia Politica 8 (1993): 41-73.