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Career Overview

2002- Dickinson State University, Full Professor
2000- Chair, Department of Social Sciences
1999- Tenured, Dickinson State University, Associate Professor
1996- Dickinson State University, Associate Professor
1993-1996 Dickinson State University, Assistant Professor
1992-1993 Radford University, Visiting Assistant Professor
1991-1992 Pomona College, Visiting Assistant Professor
1990-1991 Illinois State University, Visiting Assistant Professor
1989 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Teaching Assistant
1988 Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Research Assistant, (December 1988) for Dr. Wolfram Werner on his work Der Parlamentarische Rat, 1948-1949. Band 4.
1986 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Teaching Assistant

Administrative Experience

2000- As chair at a smaller institution, the breadth of my experience is one of my strengths: Program Review for Social Sciences (History, Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Social Work, and (beginning in 2003) Economics). Tenure and post-tenure review processes. Faculty plans. Merit raises. Review of student applications for admittance to teacher education program and graduation. Pre-Law program. Major-equivalency evaluations for North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and as service to local teachers. Budget issues. Equipment purchases. Faculty development funds. Development of honors program. Development of undergraduate student research and history honors program (Phi Alpha Theta). History Day competition. Participation on Vice President for Academic Affairs Council. Chair of faculty search committees within Social Sciences for American History, Political Science, and Geography/Anthropology. Institutional search committees for Dickinson State University President and Head Librarian.

Teaching Experience: Courses

1993-Present ... Dickinson State University: World Civilizations (History 206 and History 207), Modern Germany (History 335), Women in History (303) – as Online course, Europe since 1890 (History 490), Second World War (History 497), Middle Ages (History 350), Modern Britain (History 330), Imperial Russia (History 350), Cultural/Intellectual (History 440), Seminar in History/ Political Science (History 491), History of the Far East (History 360), History of the Soviet Union (History 380), History of the Spanish Inquisition (History 497), Rituals of Retribution (History 497), Adolf Hitler (History 497), Historical Jesus (History 497), History of Modern Antisemitism (History 497), Cold War Spies (History 497), Europe in the 17th Century (History 299/499), The Holocaust (History 390) – in-class and as Online course, and Holocaust Resource Center Teachers' Workshops.

1992-1993 ... Radford University: Europe in the 20th Century, Western Civilization since 1500, Germany since 1848, and Germany since 1945.
1991-1992 ... Pomona College: Europe in the 19th Century, Europe in the 20th Century, Eastern Europe in the 20th Century, and Europe since 1945.
1990-1991 ... Illinois State University: World History to 1650, World History since 1650, Modern Germany.
1989-1990 ... University of Wisconsin-Madison (Teaching Assistant): Second World War, World in the 20th Century, Russian History since 1801, and Russian History to 1801.

Academic Preparation

1983-90 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Modern European History. Doctoral Examinations Passed with Distinction, April 1986.
1987-89 University of Mainz (Fulbright Scholar)
1983-85 University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. in Modern European History.
1982-83 University of Frankfurt am Main (German Academic Exchange Service Grant Recipient)
1979-82 Eastern Illinois University, B.A. in History and German.

Doctoral Dissertation

1990 Managing the West Germans: The Occupation Statute of 1949 from Gestation to Burial, 1945-1955, examined the political and social interaction of West Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States towards improving relations and ,terminating controls over the West German state.

Scholarships and Awards

2003 U.S. Air War College, Maxwell AFB, National Security Forum, May 25-30
2002 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) on the Concentration Camp System, 7-11 January 2002, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
2000 Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University
2000 DSU Outstanding Teacher of the Year from the College of Arts and Sciences
1998 Holocaust Educational Foundation Grant
1996 Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University
1995 Holocaust Educational Foundation Scholar
1995 Fulbright German Studies Seminar
1994 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
1994 Holocaust Educational Foundation Scholar
1988-1989 Fulbright Scholar, University of Mainz
1988-1989 Ostkolleg Seminar Fellow
1987-1988 Fulbright Scholar, University of Mainz
1982-1983 DAAD Scholarship and Language Scholarship

Internet Activities

1997-Present H-Antisemitism Moderator (Michigan State University)
1999-Present Online Course: Holocaust In Historical Context
1999-Present Online Course: Women in History
1998-2001 Holocaust Educational Foundation Webmaster
1997 Discovery Channel Online Expert

Consultant Services and Support Provided to the Following

NBC Meyer Television
Prentice-Hall Publishers
Dickinson Press
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Publishers
Bismarck Tribune
Holocaust Educational Foundation
Houghton-Mifflin Publishers
Baumann, DeSeve, & Landau
Yad Vashem (Israel)
North Dakota Prairie Public Radio
Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
RoutledgeFalmer Publishers
Longman Publishers Joachim Museum (ND)
Collegiate Press

Books, Articles, Professional Presentations, and Journal Affiliations

2005 Spies, Lies, and a Berlin Mystery: The Case of Otto John currently being revised.

2004 "Militia Movements," in Encyclopedia of Antisemitism (2005) by Richard Levy, Editor.

2004 "An Appeal for An Historiographical Renaissance: The Thirty Years War," submitted for possible publication in the The Historian.

2003 "French-German Relations: The Strasbourg-Kehl Encounter, 1945-1955" submitted for possible publication in the European Review of History.

2003 "The Stasi Experience and German History" submitted for possible publication in German History.

2003 "Konrad Adenauer," "Helmut Kohl," and "Charles de Gaulle" in Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000, (Greenwood Press, 2003) edited by John Powell and Derek Blakeley.

2002 "An Appeal for An Historiographical Renaissance: The Thirty Years War," presented to the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, MD, 6-9 November 2002.

2002 "A Marshall Plan for the Great Plains," presented at the Great Plains Population Symposium April 10-11, 2002 in Dickinson, North Dakota.

2001 "Spies, Lies, and a Berlin Mystery: The Case of Otto John," presented at the Northern Great Plains Conference (Grand Forks, ND), October 10-13.

2001 "Franz-Rudolf von Weiss: The Swiss Consul General's Impact on Postwar West German Politics," published in ESC Proceedings: Selected Papers from 1990-1999, edited by David Stefancic and Karl Odwarka (Editions Praesens (Austria), 2001)

2000 A Berlin Mystery, German Studies Conference, Houston, Texas, October 5-8.

1999 "Spies, Lies, and a Kidnaping," European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE.

1999 "Abraham Abulafia," "Ernest Bloch," and "Zionism," in Michael Terry's (editor) Reader's Guide to Judaism (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999).

1998 "Karl Carstens," "Alsace-Lorraine 1871-1990," "Rainer Barzel," "Gerhard Schröder," "Postwar Refugee Organizations," "Kurt Biedenkopf," Encyclopedic History of Modern Germany (New York: Garland, 1998).

1998 "Right-Wing Extremism and the Christian Democrats: The Adenauer and Kohl Eras" in Stephen C. Feinstein et al (Editors), Confronting the Holocaust (Oxford: University Press of America, 1998).

1998 "Reminders of Vanished Lives: Teaching the Painful Legacy of the Holocaust," The Reference Librarian 61/62 (1998).

1997 "Germany's Thermidor: Revolution and Reaction," European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE.

1997 "Ich stehe zu Gregor Gysi!" presented at the German Studies Conference, Bethesda, MD.

1997 "Friedrich Nietzsche," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writings (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997).

1997 "Joschka Fischer," "Johannes Rau," "Rudolf Scharping," "Uwe Barschel," "Erich Honecker," "Helmut Kohl," "Eric Ollenhauer," "Manfred Stolpe," "German Political Parties," "Green Movement in Germany," "Stasi," Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia (NY: Garland, 1997).

1997 "North Dakota, the Militia, and Holocaust Deniers," 27th Annual Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches," Tampa, Florida, March 2-4.

1997 "The Stasi and German History," presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, February 27 - March 1.

1995-2000 Associate Editor, European Studies Journal.

1996 "German-Israeli Relations Since 1945," Panel Commentator, German Studies Association Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 10-1

1996 "Franz-Rudolf von Weiss: The Swiss Consul General's Impact on Postwar West German Politics," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 3-5.

1996 Adapted for History: Life on the Internet: History. A Student's Guide by Andrew T. Stull (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996).

1996 "Right-Wing Extremism and the Christian Democrats: The Adenauer and Kohl Eras" presented at the 26th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, March 3-5.

1995 "Political Assassination and Corruption in Schleswig-Holstein: Uwe Barschel versus Björn Engholm" presented at the 25th Annual European Studies Conference in Omaha, October 5-7.

1991 "West German Initiatives Towards an Occupation Statute, 1946-1949," presented at the German Studies Conference, Los Angeles, October 1991.

Professional Publications: Book and Article Reviews

2004 Choice (Fall 2004) review of Count Sergei Witte and the twilight of imperial Russia: a biography by Sidney Harcave (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004).

2004 German Studies Review (Fall 2004) review of Die Ehre Friedirch Barbarossas by Knut Görich (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001).

2004 German Studies Review (Fall 2004) review of Medien der Kommunikation im Mittelalter by Karl-Heinz Spieß (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003).

2004 German Studies Review (Fall 2004) review of Die Ära Adenauer by Dominik Geppert (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002).

2004 Choice (Spring 2004) review of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich by Tina Campt (Ann Arbor: Michigan, 2004).

2004 German Studies Review (Spring 2004) review of Deutsche Geschichte: Darstellung und Dokumente in vier Baenden. Band 3: 1955-1974. Band 4: 1974 bis zur Gegenwart by Rolf Steinginer (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2002).

2004 Choice (Spring 2004) review of A History of Modern Germany Since 1815 by Frank B. Tipton (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003).

2003 German Studies Review (Fall 2003) review of Kontroversen um die Geschichte: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland by Bernd Stöver (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002).

2003 German Studies Review (Spring 2003) review of Der Mauerbau. Die Westmächte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958 -1963 by Rolf Steininger (München: Olzog, 2001).

2003 Choice (Spring 2003) review of Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration by Norbert Frei (New York: Columbia, 2002).

2002 Choice (Fall 2002) review of Languages of the Lash: Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia by Abby M. Schrader (Dekalb: Northern Illinois, 2002).

2002 German Studies Review (Fall 2002) review of Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany by Timothy R. Vogt (Cambridge: Harvard, 2000).

2002 Choice (Spring 2002) review of The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History by Andreas Kappeler (New York: Longman, 2001).

2001 German Studies Review (Spring 2001) review of Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106 by Ian S. Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

2001 German Studies Review (Spring 2001) review of From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Takeover of the National People's (East German) Army by the Bundeswehr by Frederick Zilian, Jr. (London: Praeger, 1999).

2001 Choice (Spring 2001) review of Death of a "Jewish Science": Psychoanalysis in the Third Reich by James E. Goggin (Purdue: Purdue University Press, 2001).

2001 Choice (Spring 2001) review of Europe Since 1945 by Philip Thody (NY: Routledge, 2000).

2000 German Studies Review (Spring 2000) review of Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland (SMAD) 1945-1949 by Jan Foitzik (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999).

2000 Choice (Fall 2000) review of Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism by David Bankier, editor (NY: Holmes & Meier, 2000).

2000 Choice (Fall 2000) review of Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (NY: Holmes & Meier, 2000).

2000 Choice (Spring 2000) review of The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman (NY: Picador, 1999).

2000 German Studies Review (Spring 2000) review of Tales of the German Underworld by Richard Evans (New Haven: Yale, 1999).

2000 Choice (Spring 2000) of Nazi Terror by Eric A. Johnson (NY: Basic Books, 1999).

2000 German Studies Review (Spring 2000) comparative review of The Unification of Germany in International and Domestic Law by Ryszard W. Piotrowicz and Sam K.N. Blay (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997) and The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany. Second Edition by Donald P. Kommers (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).

2000 European Studies Journal (Spring 2000) of Job: The Story of a Holocaust Survivor by Joseph Freeman (London: Praeger, 1996).

1999 Choice (Fall 1999) of And Yet, I am here! by Halina Nelken (Amherst: University of Mass. Press, 1999).

1998 Choice (Fall 1998) of Rudolf Hilferding: the tragedy of a Social Democrat by William Smaldone (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998).

1998 East/West Education (Fall 1998) of Educational Change and Social Transformation: Teachers, Schools and Universities in Eastern Germany by Hans N. Weiler, Heinrich A. Mintrop, and Elizabeth Fuhrmann (London: Falmer, 1996).

1998 German Studies Review (Fall 1998) of Paradoxes of Peace: German Peace Movements since 1945 by Alice Holmes Cooper (Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan Press, 1996).

1998 German Studies Review (Spring 1998) of Geschichte einer Volkspartei: 50 Jahre CSU by the Hanns Seidel Stiftung (Grünwald: ATWERB Verlag, 1995).

1998 Shofar. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (Vol. 17, No. 2, 1998) of The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (NY: Little, Brown & Co., 1997).

1998 German Studies Review (Fall 1998) Heidegger, philosophy, Nazism by Julian Young, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

1997 The European Studies Journal (Fall 1997) of Adenauer and Kennedy: A Study in German-American Relations, 1961-1963 by Frank A. Mayer (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996).

1997 Weimar List (Fall 1997) of The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933 by William Brustein (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

1997 The Historian (Spring 1997) of Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987 by Richard J. Evan (Oxford: Oxford, 1996).

1997 The European Studies Journal (Spring 1997) of Politics after Hitler by Dan Rogers (NY: NY University Press, 1995).

1996 H-German (Fall 1996) of Kriegsende und Neuanfang in Augsburg 1945: Erinnerungen und Berichte by Karl-Ulrich Gelberg (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996).

1996 H-Holocaust (November 1996) of The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian by Raul Hilberg (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996).

1996 German Studies Review (Fall 1996) of Adenauer und die USA. Rhöndorfer Gespräche Bd. 14 by Klaus Schwabe (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1994).

1996 H-Antisemitism (September 1996) of The Stigma of Names. Antisemitism in German Daily Life, 1812-1933 by Dietz Bering (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1992).

1996 H-German (Spring 1996) of Norman M. Naimark's "Die Sowetische Militäradministration in Deutschland und die Frage des Stalinismus: Veränderte Sichtwesen auf der Grundlage neuer Quellen aus russischen Archiven," Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 43 (1995): 293-307.

1996 H-Antisemitism (Spring 1996) of Jews in Today's German Culture by Sander L. Gilman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).

1996 German Studies Review (Spring 1996) of Eternal Guilt?: 40 Years of German-Jewish-Israeli Relations by Michael Wolffsohn (NY: Columbia University Press, 1993).

1995 H-German (Fall 1995) of Marshallplan und Westdeutscher Wiederaufstieg by Hans-Jürgen Schröder (Hrsg.) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990).

1995 German Studies Review (Fall 1995) of Wiederaufbau in Deutschland. Die Wohnungsbaupolitik in den Westzonen und der Bundesrepublik von 1945 bis 1957 by Günther Schulz (Düsseldorf: Droste, 1994).

1994 The Historian (Fall 1994) of The Rush to Unity by Konrad Jarausch (NY: Oxford, 1994).

1994 German Studies Review (Fall 1994) of The Republikaner Party in Germany by Hans-Joachim Veen, Norbert Lepszy, and Peter Mnich (Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1993).

1992 German Studies Review (Fall 1992) of Adenauers Gegner. Streiter für die Einheit by Rainer Zitelmann (Erlangen: Straube, 1991).