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EDUCATION Dissertation title: "The Indoctrination of a Muse: Myths of Ludwig van Beethoven and his Music as Evoked in German Political Culture from 1789 to 1989" Major field: Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History (Robert Wohl) Minor fields: History of France since 1740 (Eugen Weber); History of Germany since 1740 (Saul Friedlander); History of Europe: Renaissance to the French Revolution (David Sabean); Music and History (Robert Winter, outside observer) M.A. in History, University of California, Los Angeles, June 1987 B.A. in History and French, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 1984 (George L. Mosse, advisor) Université de Provence, Aix-Marseilles, France, "College Year Abroad," 1982-83 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses taught: History 101: "Western Ideas and Institutions to the 17th Century" History 102: "Western Ideas and Institutions since the 17th Century" History 106: "Modern Western Civilization: The Humanities in Context" History 300: "Germany in the Nineteenth Century" History 300: Modern European History in the Art Institute of Chicago History 321: "Europe in the Nineteenth Century" History 327: "Europe since 1945" History 336: "Germany in the Twentieth Century" History 436: "The Art and Practice of Historical Writing" History 436: "The Novel and Nineteenth-Century German History" History 540: "The Novel and Twentieth-Century European History" Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, 1992-1997 Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of
History, Albion College, Albion,
Michigan, 1991-92 Teaching Associate, Department of History, UCLA, 1987-88 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UCLA, 1986-87 HONORS AND AWARDS Master Teacher Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, 2000 Finalist, Edwin T. and Vivijeanne F. Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, 2000 Loyola University Summer Stipend, 1993 NEH Loyola Endowment for the Humanities Grant, for "Topography of Terror" exhibit and "Communicating the Past" conference, December 1992 University Fellowship, Department of History, UCLA, 1990-91 Direktstipendium, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1989-90 University Fellowship, Department of History, UCLA, 1989-90 Predissertation Fellowship, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, West Germany, 1988-89 University Fellowship, Department of History, UCLA, 1988-89 "Learn German in Germany" Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1988 Teaching Associateship, Department of History, UCLA, 1987-88 Teaching Assistantship, Department of History, UCLA, 1986-87 FOREIGN RESEARCH AND STUDY Self-supported research for Cambridge Beethoven Handbook chapter Berlin, West
Germany, Freie Universität, 1989-90 Berlin
and Bonn, West Germany, various
institutions, 1988-89 Berlin,
West Germany, Goethe-Institut, Summer
1988 Munich,
West Germany, Goethe-Institut, Summer
1983 Aix-en-Provence,
France, Université de Provence,
Aix-Marseilles PUBLICATIONS Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996) Reviews of Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989: James R.
Oestreich, "Beethoven as Idealist,
Militarist, Whatever," The New
York Times, 6 March 1996 Book Chapters: "Beethoven At Large: Reception in Literature, the Arts, Philosophy, and Politics" in Glenn Stanley, ed., Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). "Brahms’s Requiem eines Unpolitischen," in Nicholas Vazsonyi, ed., Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identität 1750-1871 (Weimar and Wien, Böhlau, 2000) Articles: Review essay on recent literature about music and German politics: Paul Lawrence Rose, Wagner: Race and Revolution (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992); Marc A. Weiner, Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1995); Frederic Spotts, Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994); Michael Meyer, The Politics of Music in the Third Reich (New York: Peter Lang, 1991); Erik Levi, Music in the Third Reich (New York: St. Martin's, 1994); for the German Studies Review, October 1997. Book Reviews: Review of Pamela M. Potter, Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler’s Reich (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998) for the German Studies Review, February 2000. Review of Michael Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians and their Music in the Third Reich (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) for the German Studies Review, May 1998. Review of Jonathan Petropoulos, Art as Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill: North Carolina U.P., 1996) for the American Historical Review, June 1997. Review of Michael H. Kater, "Carl Orff im Dritten Reich" Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte 43, 1 (Januar 1995)1:35, for H-German Listservice, 25 January 1996 Review of Erik Levi, Music in the Third Reich (1994) in The Historian, vol. 58, no. 1, Autumn 1995 Other: "Preparing for Graduate Studies in History" (a guide for undergraduate students) Chicago: Loyola University Center for Instructional Design (LUCID), September 1994 WORK IN PROGRESS Review essay on recent literature on Richard Wagner: Goehr, Lydia, The Quest for Voice : On Music, Politics, and the Limits Of Philosophy: The 1997 Ernest Bloch Lectures (Oxford [U.K.], New York: Clarendon Press ;Oxford University Press, 1998); Köhler, Joachim, Wagner's Hitler: The Prophet and his Disciple, translated by Ronald Taylor (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2000); and McClatchie, Stephen, Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology, Eastman Studies in Music (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1998) for the German Studies Review, forthcoming. Book Manuscript: Ehrt eure deutschen Meister: Music Reception in German Political Culture. EDITORIAL AND REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES German Studies Review, book reviewer The Historian, book reviewer H-German, Listservice, book/article reviewer Brown & Benchmark Publishers, Madison, Wisconsin: manuscript reviewer BiblioFile, an electronic journal of book reviews: editor of book reviews in Modern European History, 1994-95 LECTURES, PAPERS, AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION "Brahms’s Requiem eines Unpolitischen," paper for University of South Carolina German Studies Symposium, Searching for Common Ground: German National Identity 1750-1871, April 8-10, 1999. "O Freunde nicht diese Töne: Beethoven Biography as Propaganda" lecture for "History and Biography," the Lecture Series of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D. C., 22 October 1998. "Reception of Classical Composers in the Völkischer Beobachter," paper for the "Deutsche Identität als kulturelles Konstrukt" session, sponsored by the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, German Studies Association Conference, Salt Lake City, 9 October 1998. "Fidelio’s Triumph: The Politics and Culture Surrounding Beethoven’s Music," lecture sponsored by The Women’s Association of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Center, Chicago, Illinois, 8 May 1998. "Robert Schumann and the German Revolution of 1848," for "Music and Revolution," concert and lecture series arranged by The American Bach Project and supported by the Wisconsin Humanities Council as part of the State of Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Observances, All Saints Cathedral, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2 May 1998. "Beethoven in National Socialist Political Culture," paper for the "Musicology Colloquium Series," Music and History Departments, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 14 February 1997. "Music Reception in the Völkischer Beobachter," paper for the "Music, Politics, and the State" session at German Studies Association Conference, Seattle, 12 October 1996: proposed and arranged complete session. "Beethoven and German Identities: Evocations of the Composer and His Music in 19th-Century Political Culture," lecture for "German Identities, German Differences," lecture series from The German Studies Committee, Loyola University Chicago, Spring 1995, 28 February 1995 "Legacies of the Second World War: Teaching about Germany and Japan": co-presenter with Carol Pixton, Polytechnic School, Pasadena, CA, of session on "Nazism: The Past That Will Not Pass Away," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, 8 January 1995 "Confronting the Past" Conference & Teaching Workshop: participant in conference associated with the "Topography of Terror" exhibit, Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus, 4-6 November 1993 "Facing America: Communist Images of the United States": participant in conference on East German perceptions of the U.S., Goethe-Institut Chicago, 1-3 April 1993 "What is Happening in Germany Today?": moderator of panel discussion on racist outbursts in Germany, Goethe-Institut Chicago, 9 September 1992 PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE "Topography of Terror: Gestapo, SS and Reichssicherheitshauptamt on the Prinz-Albrecht Terrain" Exhibit: organizer in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Chicago and the German Consulate in Chicago, Loyola University, Water Tower Campus, 4-24 November 1993 "Confronting the Past" Conference & Teaching Workshop: organizer of conference associated with the "Topography of Terror" exhibit, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Chicago, the German Consulate in Chicago, the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, Loyola University, Water Tower Campus, 4-6 November 1993 "Confronting the Past: Anti-Fascist Films from the Former East Germany": organizer of film series in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Chicago and the Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago, 5, 12, 19, 21 November 1993 "The Efforts of Holocaust Survivors to Communicate their Experiences to children and Young Adults": organizer of panel discussion in cooperation with the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus, 8 November 1993 Interdenominational Service in Memory of Reichskristallnacht: organizer in cooperation with the Campus Ministry of Loyola University, Water Tower Campus, 9 November 1993 "An Educational Commemoration of Kristallnacht": organizer in cooperation with the Foundation Topography of Terror, Berlin and Hillel, C.A.Y.S., Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus, 9 November 1993 "The Far Right in Unified Germany": History Department Faculty Seminar led by Dr. Rainer Erb, The Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical University Berlin; organizer in cooperation with the History Department Committee on Faculty Development, Loyola University Chicago, 2 November 1993 "Facing America: Communist Images of the United States": co-organizer of exhibit and conference on East German perceptions of the U.S., Goethe-Institut, Chicago, 1-3 April, 1993 Committee on Foreign Relations, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations: member, 1993 to present TELEVISION AND RADIO APPEARANCES "Peace Waves," WLUW Radio: participant in panel discussion about the "Topography of Terror" exhibit, broadcast on 3 April 1994 Chicagoland Cable T.V. News: interviewed with reference to the "Topography of Terror" exhibit, broadcast on 6 November 1993 UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE Core Curriculum Committee of the Academic Council, member, Semester II, 1996 to present Roser Academic Society, organizer and faculty advisor, 1996-1997 Fulbright Interview Committee, October 1995 to present Freshman Experience, ("Genesis’), advisor, Summer 1995 to present German Studies Committee, co-founder and member, 1994 to present "University 101: Freshmen Orientation," College Programs, faculty facilitator, Fall 1993 Faculty Advisory Committee, Department of History, elected member, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 Graduate Program Committee, Department of History, member, 1993-94 through 1996-97, 1999-2000 Undergraduate and Core Curriculum Committee, Department of History, member, 1998-99, 1999-2000 Student Recognition and Professional Development Committee, Department of History, member, 1992-93 to present; Chairman 1995-96 Faculty Development Committee, Department of History, member, 1992-93, 1997-98 Loyola University Baseball Club, Faculty Advisor, 1992 to present PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Historical Association: member 1990 to present German Studies Association: member 1990 to present Committee on Foreign Relations, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations: member 1993 to present Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History, University of Wisconsin-Madison: contributor |