H-German Editors

 

Benita Blessing is assistant professor of European women's and gender history at Ohio University. She is currently Fulbright senior research faculty fellow in Berlin, 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 post-doctoral research affiliate 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 currently under evaluation.
 
Eve Duffy received her Magister from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and her Ph.D in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently Director of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values at UNC as well as an adjunct professor in history. In addition to working on her manuscript on the Deutsches Museum, she is co-authoring a book on the 16th-century traveller Hans Staden.
 
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 a visiting assistant professor at the College of Charleston. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His first book, Toys, Consumption and Middle Class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918, is in production at Peter Lang.
 
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."
 
Connie Moon Sehat is the Senior Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. Her life as a digital humanist includes being the Zotero Integration Advisor. Connie received her doctorate in history from Rice University, where her dissertation, "Education and Utopia: Technology Museums in Cold War Germany," argued that technology museum education in Cold War Germany manifested strongly shared ideologies across the East-West divide. A background in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley and in software engineering on a NASA-Lockheed Martin International Space Station project also informs her scholarship.
 
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@ohio.edu
Susan Boettcher: susan.boettcher@mail.utexas.edu
Mathieu Denis:  dma@cmb.hu-berlin.de
Eve Duffy: emduffy@email.unc.edu
Christopher Fischer: cfischer@isugw.indstate.edu
Bryan Ganaway: ganawayb@cofc.edu
Jon Berndt Olsen: jon@history.umass.edu
Michael Sauter: michaeljsauter@gmail.com
Connie Moon Sehat: cmsehat@emory.edu

 

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

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.