H-German Editors

 

Benita Blessing is Faculty Research Fellow at the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively entitled "Princes and Princesses Under Socialism: Gender, Sexuality and Hard Currency in East German Film, 1946-1990." Her first book was The Antifascist Classroom: Reeducation in Soviet-occupied Germany, 1945-1949 (Palgrave 2006). She is also researching the role of vampire tropes since the medieval period as a public forum for the discussion of science and ethics throughout history.
 
Susan Boettcher is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches broadly on early modern and modern German and European history as well as the history of Christianity. Her book manuscript on the commemoration of Martin Luther in the second generation of the German Reformation is under contract with Oxford University Press. She is currently a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, from which she has received a two year grant for a book on late Reformation Lutheran confessional sermons and preaching in Germany.
 

Mathieu Denis is a member of the Professional Research Staff at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (Université de Montréal) where he works on the history of unemployment in 20th Century Germany. His research interests have focused so far on East and West German economic and labor history. His second book, based on his 2007 dissertation and entitled: “The Unions’ Share: The Unification of the German Labor, 1989-1990”, is scheduled for publication with Toronto University Press in 2011.
 
Christopher Fischer is a cultural/political historian of modern Germany with a focus on Alsace and received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina in 2003.  His dissertation examined the development of Alsatian regionalism and regional identity from the late 19th century through the outbreak of the Second World War and was awarded the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize.  He is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University.
 
Bryan Ganaway is an Assistant Professor and the Faculty Fellow/Academic Advisor for the Honors College at the College of Charleston. His first book, _Toys, Consumption and Middle-Class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918_, came out with Peter Lang in 2009. His current project involves a study of the newtorks of commerce, knowledge, and students
linking Harvard University with the University of Berlin in the late nineteenth century.
 
Lynn Kutch is an Assistant Professor of German at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Although she earned her degree in Language and Literature, she takes a decidedly interdisciplinary approach in her research, often concentrating on the intersections and confrontations between literature and history. Her current research interests include using German detective fiction to teach culture and history, film of the former East Germany, women's writing as response to politics and history, and considering literary texts as historical documents in the classroom.
 
Jon Berndt Olsen is assistant professor in the Department of History the University of Massachusetts and Amherst. He received his M.A. in German and European Studies from Georgetown University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in German History from the University of North Carolina in 2004. His scholarly interests focus on of issues of memory in East Germany as well as broader aspects of cultural and intellectual history in post-1945 Germany. He is currently revising his book manuscript, entitled Tailoring Truth: Memory Culture and State Legitimacy in East Germany.
 
Michael Sauter is profesor-investigador in the División de Historia at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. in Mexico City.  He is the author of Visions of the Enlightenment: The Edict on Religion of 1788 and Political Reaction in Prussia (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.)  In his next book project he is exploring how the elaboration of a new spatial aesthetic between 1400 and 1800 yielded peculiarly European ways of imagining and experiencing the world.  This project carries the tentative title, "Europe in the Age of Orientation: Spatial Sense and the Early-Modern Global Imagination, 1400-1800."
 
Editorial Assistant
Shannon Nagy is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include consumption, industrial design, material culture, memory, Ostalgie, and Alltagsgeschichte. She is currently in Germany on a Fulbright grant for the 2009-2010 academic year doing research for her dissertation on East German toys. She received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Susquehanna University in 2005. Shannon's participation in H-German is sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.


All  editors share the day-to-day list editing duties, with Boettcher in charge of book and article reviews and Steege responsible for maintenance of the H-German Web site.  Please feel free to e-mail the editors at the addresses below.

Benita Blessing: blessing@german.umass.edu
Susan Boettcher: susan.boettcher@mail.utexas.edu
Mathieu Denis:  dma@cmb.hu-berlin.de
Christopher Fischer: cfischer@isugw.indstate.edu
Bryan Ganaway: ganawayb@cofc.edu
Lynn Kutch: kutch@kutztown.edu
Jon Berndt Olsen: jon@history.umass.edu
Michael Sauter: michaeljsauter@gmail.com

 

Past H-German Editors

Norman Goda 1994-1999
Dan Rogers 1994-1998
Jay Lockenour 1997-2002
Julia Sneeringer 1999-2002
Steven Remy 1999-2003
David Imhoof 2002-2007
William Glenn Gray: 2005-2009
Margaret Eleanor Menninger: 2008-2009
Paul Steege: 2002-2009
Eve Duffy: 2005-2010
Connie Moon Sehat: 2009-2010

Past H-German Editorial Assistants

Franke L. Smith 2006-2007

In February 2003 H-German posted a brief retrospective, which describes some of the many accomplishments of these past editors.  This summary history, "H-German: the first eight years," is available via the list's web log.