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Margaret E. Menninger <mm48@txstate.edu> Texas State University Within H-German: further development of teaching resources (e.g. syllabi, textbook reviews) expanding media/museum reviews, "real life" tips for research, navigation of archives, banks etc. |
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Address: | Department of History Texas State University 601 University Drive San Marcos, Texas 78666 United States |
Primary Phone: | 512-245-2188 |
Fax Number: | 512-245-3043 |
Web Page: | https://www.txstate.edu/history/people/menninger/index.htm |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-German Reviewer for H-German |
Reviews: | untitled For Singers with Tremendous Artistry but No Voice Regional Notables Porcelain Wars and Solar Furnaces Noblesse Obligée et Modernisée Mission in Berlin |
Interests: | European History / Studies |
Bio: Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Associate Professor of History, Texas State University – San Marcos EDUCATION: Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, in History A.M. (1991), Harvard University, in History A.B. cum laude (1986), Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges PUBLICATIONS: “Zivilgesellschaft jenseits der Bühne: Theater, Bildung und bürgerliches Mäzenatentum” in Zivilgesellschaft und historischer Wandel. Studien zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Ralph Jessen, Sven Reichardt and Ansgar Klein, Eds. (Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2004), 175-194. “The serious matter of true joy: music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933” in Philanthropy, Patronage and Civil Society: Lessons from Germany, the United States, Britain and Canada, Thomas Adam, Ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 120-137. “Kulturelle Eliten in Leipzig im 19. Jahrhundert” in Kulturpolitik und Stadtkultur in Leipzig und Lyon, Thomas Höpel, Ed.(Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2004), 83-101. “Kulturelle Philanthropy im Leipzig des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts” in Comparativ 11 (2001), Heft 5/6, 30- 51. “Städtische Kunstförderung, das sächsische Unternehmertum und der kaufmännische Geist Leipzigs am Beispiel des Grassi-Museums 1880-1900,” in Unternehmer in Sachsen. Aufstieg—Krise—Untergang— Neubeginn, Ulrich Heß, Petra Listewnik and Michael Schäfer, Eds. (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 1998), 97-105. SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS: “Performing Civil Society” presented at the inaugural Conference of the Southwest Consortium for German History, Literature and Society, Austin TX, April 2005 “Orchestra Wars: Civil Society, Official Culture and the Amateur Musician” presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, New Orleans LA, September 2003 “Local Patriotism and Nationalist Aspirations: Otto Georgi and Leipzig’s Cultural Philanthropists, 1870- 1900” presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago IL, January 2003 “The performance of Bildung: civic action and the theater in nineteenth-century Leipzig” presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Fairfax, VA, April 2002 “Cultural Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Leipzig” presented at the symposium Philanthropy, Patronage and Urban Politics: Transatlantic Transfers between Europe North America in the 19th and 20th Century, Toronto Canada, May 2001 RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Manuscript Editor and Subsidiary Rights Manager, DÆDALUS, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 1990-1992 Bertelsmann Foundation Intern, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, FRG, 1990 Foreign Rights Specialist and Permissions Editor, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987-1990 |