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Michael E. O'Sullivan <michael.osullivan@marist.edu> Marist College Dissertation/Book Project: "Persevering Piety and Declining Devotion: Popular Catholiccism, Secularization, and Everyday Life in Western Germany, 1918-1965" |
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List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Catholic Reviewer for H-German |
Reviews: | Germany and Namibia: Memories of a Violent Past Preparing the Way: Weimar Protestantism, Secularization, and the Third Reich Defending Prussian Social Policy: The Child Labor Law of 1839 Forging a Popular Political Culture from Below |
Interests: | Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Religious Studies and Theology Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: Michael Edmond O'Sullivan michael.osullivan@marist.edu EDUCATION University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Ph.D: Modern German and European History, May 2006 Dissertation: “Persevering Piety and Declining Devotion: Popular Catholicism, Secularization, and Everyday Religion in Northwest Germany, 1918-1965” M.A.: Modern German and European History, 2001 Canisius College B.A.: History, German, and English, 1999 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor of History, Marist College, August 2007-Present Assistant Professor of History, Emory and Henry College, August 2006-2007 Program Coordinator, Cobb Connected Learning Program, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2005-2006 TEACHING FIELDS Modern European History Modern German History Holocaust History Modern World History Modern African History Early Modern European History Western Civilization PUBLICATIONS “An Eroding Milieu? Catholic Youth, Church Authority, and Popular Behavior in Northwest Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1938,” Catholic Historical Review, Vol. XC, No. 2 (April 2004): 236-259 Museum Review of Namibia-Deutschland: Eine geteilte Geschichte. Widerstand-Gewalt-Erinnerung (Namibia-Germany: A Shared History. Resistance-Violence-Memory) Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne, in H-German Reviews (June 2004) Review of Rainer Lächele and Jörg Thierfelder (eds.), Württembergs Protestantismus in der Weimarer Republik, in H-German Reviews (November 2004) Review of Dieter Kastner, Kinderarbeit im Rheinland: Entstehung und Wirkung des ersten preussischen Gesetzes gegen die Arbeit von Kindern in Fabriken von 1839 in H-German Reviews (January 2006) Review of Anthony Kauders, Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965 in Patterns of Prejudice (forthcoming 2006) CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND WORKSHOPS “Religion and Gender: The Role of Femininity and Masculinity in German Catholic Religious Revival, 1918-1933,” Departmental Research Colloquium, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, January 27, 2006. “Roots of Renewal: Catholic Women and Religious Revival, 1925-1935,” German Historical Institute’s Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Washington, D.C., April 16, 2005 “Renewal and Religious Change: Catholic Spiritual Practice and Gender in Northwest Germany, 1918-1949,” Southern Historical Association, European Section, November 4, 2004 “Katholischer Aufschwung und Säkularisierung im Dritten Reich und in der Nachkriegszeit,” Kolloquium zur Neueren Geschichte, Universität zu Köln, July 12, 2004 “Catholic Youth, Church Authority, and Popular Religion during the Third Reich,” New York State Association of European Historians Conference, Canisius College, September 21, 2002 “The Lion’s Kingdom: Bishop von Galen, Piety, and Popular Dissent in Münster, 1933-1936,” Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in German Studies at the University of Minnesota, July 30, 2002 “Processions of Reconciliation and Dissent: Westphalian Catholics and the German State, 1900-1945,” University of North Carolina-Charlotte Graduate History Forum, March 23, 2002 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Friday Center-Carolina Courses Online Course Author for History 20: Twentieth-Century Africa, Summer 2005 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Graduate Research Assistant under Brewster Chamberlin for Archival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2002), Summer 2001 FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS TA of the Year Finalist, Department of History, University of North Carolina, 2005 German Academic Exchange Service, (DAAD), Dissertation Fellowship to Cologne, Germany, 2003-2004 Institute for European History (Mainz), Fellowship, 2003-2004 (declined) Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, 2003-2004 (declined) Mowry Dissertation Grant at University of North Carolina, 2003 German Historical Institute Seminar on German Script and Archives, June 2003 Waddell Graduate Fellowship at University of North Carolina, 2000-2001 Fulbright Research Fellowship to Münster, Germany, 1999-2000 |