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Andrew Donson <adonson@german.umass.edu> The University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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Address: | German and Scandinavian Studies The University of Massachusetts Amherst 161 Presidents Dr. Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 United States |
Primary Phone: | 413-545-6676 |
Web Page: | https://www.people.umass.edu/adonson/ |
List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Childhood Reviewer for H-Childhood Reviewer for H-German |
Reviews: | untitled The Kaiser Matters untitled Objectifying Childhood around 1932 untitled Total War Everywhere The Forgotten Occupations in the East |
Interests: | Childhood and Education European History / Studies Intellectual History Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: Monograph: Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918. Under review at Harvard University Press. Peer-reviewed articles: "From War Pedagogy to Reform Pedagogy: Education and Youth Reform before 1914 and the Mobilization for War in Germany." Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child:" Child-Rearing and Education in the United States and Central Europe in the 20th Century. Ed. Dirk Schumann. New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming. "Why Did German Youth Become Fascists? Nationalist Males Born 1900 to 1908 in War and Revolution," Social History 31 (2006): 337-58. "Models for Young Nationalists and Militarists: Youth Literature in the First World War," German Studies Review 27 (2004): 575-94. "Youth and Adolescence." The Encyclopedia of European Social History. Ed. Peter Stearns. New York: Scribner’s, 2001. (7,500 words) Undergraduate and graduate courses The Weimar Republic: A graduate course Nineteenth-Century German Thought: An upper-level lecture and discussion survey course. Nazi Germany: An upper-level lecture and discussion course. Modern Germany: An upper-level lecture and discussion survey course. The Holocaust: A senior and graduate discussion seminar. Western Civilization I: From the Invention of Writing to the Reformation: A core introductory lecture course with 270 students. Western Civilization II: From the Scientific Revolution to the Present: Second part of above course. Modern European Historiography: A graduate seminar, team-taught with five other instructors. Weimar and Nazi Germany: A senior discussion seminar. Nineteenth Century Europe: Liberalism and Its Critics: An upper-level lecture and discussion survey course. Twentieth Century Europe: Modernism, Fascism, and Communism: An upper-level lecture and discussion survey course. Western Traditions: The Modern World: A core introductory interdisciplinary humanities course emphasizing critical reading of key texts in literature, philosophy, and the sciences. Led discussion sections. The German Conception of History: Philosophy and Historiography. An upper level intellectual history course. Taught in German. Childhood and Adolescence in Europe and North America: A first year writing seminar. Advanced English: Writing and Grammar |