H-German Editors

 

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.
 
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 Associate Director of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values at UNC. She is revising her book manuscript, entitled Modernity on Display: Technology and the Nation at the Deutsches Museum, 1903-1945.
 
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.
 
William Glenn Gray joined the faculty of Purdue University as an assistant professor in the fall of 2004. Prior to that, he taught for four years at Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX. His scholarly interests stand at the intersection of German and international history; he is currently pursuing a second book project entitled "After Adenauer: German Ambitions in a Globalizing Era, 1963- 1975."
 
Jon Berndt Olsen is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. 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.
 
Paul Steege  received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1999.  He is currently Associate Professor of Modern European History at Villanova University.  His book, Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949 was published in 2007.
 
Consulting Editor
Margaret Eleanor Menninger is an Associate Professor of History at Texas State University - San Marcos. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998. Her current project, entitled Performing Civil Society: Cultural Philanthropy in Nineteenth-century Germany is a study of the origins of arts funding and its relationship to civil society, regional identity and bourgeois culture in Saxony.
 
Editorial Assistant
Shannon Nagy is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include post-war memory, East German consumer culture, and the way in which memorials function in German society. 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.

Susan Boettcher: susan.boettcher@mail.utexas.edu
Eve Duffy: eve.duffy@trinity.edu
Christopher Fischer: cfischer@isugw.indstate.edu
William Glenn Gray: wggray@cla.purdue.edu
Jon Berndt Olsen: jolsen@cord.edu
Paul Steege: paul.steege@villanova.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

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.