Syllabus Database
The editors have assembled the syllabus database in the hopes that it will serve as a useful resource to new and established scholars alike, whether for developing new courses and techniques, tweaking existing courses, or simply drawing on the collective pedagogical and intellectual expertise of fellow subscribers.
If you did not submit a syllabus for the contest, but would like us to add yours to the list, please forward the materials to Chris Fojtik.
Please note: All syllabi are here by courtesy of the authors of the specific syllabi. They therefore remain the intellectual property of the authors and should not be redistributed or used for commercial purposes without the consent of the authors.
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Seminar/Specific Topic Courses
Nazi Germany/Holocaust Courses
The German Speaking Lands Before 1789
| 2006 | Margaret L. Anderson, University of California at Berkeley | |
| 2006 | Daniel Becker, Brandeis University | Modern Germany 1870-1990 |
| 2006 | Andrew Donson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Modern Germany, 1789 to the present |
| 2006 | *Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University | Germany, 1870 to the Present |
| 2006 | Bryan Ganaway, Presbyterian College | Modern Germany |
| 2006 | Michael Hayse, Stockton College of New Jersey | History of Modern Germany |
| 2006 | Dennis Klein, Kean College | History of Germany, 1805 to the Present: The Interplay of Ideas and Power |
| 2006 | Jeffrey Myers, Avila University | Germany: Nineteenth Century Germany: Twentieth Century |
| 2006 | William Patch, Washington & Lee University | Germany from Unification to Reunification Course Website: Germany |
| 2006 | Catherine Plum, Western New England College | History of Modern Germany 1848 - Present |
| 2008 | Kenneth C. Barnes, University of Central Arkansas | Germany Since 1918 |
| 2008 | Benita Blessing, Ohio University | Twentieth Century Germany |
| 2008 | Laura M. Eidt, University of Dallas | Deutsche Kultur und Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts |
| 2008 | Eagle Glassheim, University of British Columbia | History of Modern Germany |
| 2008 | Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Davidson College | History of Germany in Global Context, 1871-1990 |
| 2008 | Martin A. Ruehl, Trinity Hall (Cambridge University) | History and identity in Germany, 1750 to the present |
| 2008 | Lisa Stallbaumer-Beishline, Bloomsburg University | Twentieth Century German History |
| 2008 | Brian Vick, University of Colorado | Modern German History since 1849 |
| 2008 | Jonathan Zatlin, Boston University | Germany 1914 to the Present |
| 2010 | Jeff Bowersox, University of Southern Mississippi | History of the German Lands in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
| 2010 | Elun Gabriel, St. Lawrence University | Modern German History |
| 2010 | Robert Goodrich, Northern Michigan University | |
| 2010 | J. Laurence Hare, University of Arkansas | Postwar Germany |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa | Germany since 1914 |
| 2010 | Maria Mitchell, Franklin & Marshall College | Modern Germany |
| 2010 | Brendan Karch, Harvard University | Order and Conquest: Modern Central Europe |
| 2010 | Christian Lieb, University of Victoria | Imperial Germany,1870–1918 |
| 2010 | Stephen J. Scala, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies | The Two Germanys and the Cold War |
| 2010 | Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College | Looking at the Three Postwar Germanies |
| 2010 | Edith Sheffer, Stanford University | Germany and the Two World Wars |
| 2010 | Aeleah Soine, Macalester College | German History Reformation to Unification |
| 2010 | Aeleah Soine, Macalester College | Modern Germany |
| 2010 | Mark R. Stoneman, George Mason University | Modern Germany |
| 2010 | Lisa Stallbaumer Beishline, Bloomsburg University | Twentieth Century German History |
| 2010 | Guillaume de Syon, Albright College | Modern Germany |
Seminars/Specific Topic Courses
2006 | *Susan Boettcher, University of Texas at Austin | |
2006 | Andrew Donson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Nineteenth-Century German Thought The Weimar Republic |
2006 | Astrid Eckert, Emory University | Germany after 1945: Reconstruction & Memory |
2006 | Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College | Before the Deluge: Paris and Berlin in the Interwar Years |
2006 | Carine Germond, Yale University | Franco-German Relations after 1945 |
2006 | Ronald Granieri, University of Pennsylvania | The German Century, 1890-1990 |
2006 | Jeremy King, Mount Holyoke College | From Habsburg to Hitler: Bohemian Politics,1848-1948 |
2006 | Dennis B. Klein, Kean College | Weimar Germany: The New World of Mass Culture and Chronic Conflict |
2006 | Jonathon Lewy and Udi Greenberg, Hebrew University | From Weimar to the Third Reich, 1918 – 1939 |
2006 | Harold Marcuse, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara | Germany since 1945: Dealing with Legacies of Dictatorship Course Weblink: History 133c |
2006 | Patricia Mazón, State University of New York at Buffalo | Topics in Modern German History |
2006 | *M. E. Menninger, Texas State University at San Marcos | Sex, Drugs and Cabaret: Europe, 1880-1914 |
2006 | Catherine Plum, Western New England College | East German Society & Culture, 1949-1989 |
2006 | Timothy Pursell, University of Alaska Fairbanks | Modern Germany |
2006 | Ian Reifowitz, SUNY Empire State | The Vienna of Hitler and Freud |
2006 | Adam Seipp, Texas A&M University | War and European Society in the Twentieth Century |
2006 | David Tompkins, University of Tennessee | Music and Politics in Europe from Wagner to the 1960s |
2006 | Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania | Freud: The Invention of Psychoanalysis |
| 2008 | Manuela Achilles, University of Virginia | Neighbors and Enemies in Modern Germany |
| 2008 | Nina Berman, Ohio State University | Germans in Africa |
| 2008 | Daniela Blei, Stanford University | From the Constitution to the Cabaret: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic |
| 2008 | Richard Bodek, College of Charleston | The Cultural History of Germany: Outsiders from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich |
| 2008 | *Susan Boettcher, University of Texas, Austin | Jews and Judaism since 1492 |
| 2008 | Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universität Berlin | 1968: Year of Protest, Year of Change |
| 2008 | Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universität Berlin | Stadtwahrnehmung und städtisches Selbstverständnis Zur Geschichte der Straße |
| 2008 | Julia Brüggemann, DePauw University | After Catastrophe: Germany and the Legacy of World War II |
| 2008 | Brendan Fay, Indiana University | Beethoven: Napoleon to the Nazis, 1810-1989 |
| 2008 | Peter Hess, University of Texas at Austin | Switzerland and Europe: Integration or Isolation? |
| 2008 | Hoi-eun Kim, Texas A & M University | Medicine and Empire: Germany and Japan, 1868-1945 |
| 2008 | Lynn M. Kutch, Kutztown University | Women's Representation of World War II and the Holocaust |
| 2008 | Michael Mackenzie, DePauw University | |
| 2008 | Edward Mathieu, Beloit College | Fascism |
| 2008 | James Palmitessa, Western Michigan University | The Thirty Years War |
| 2008 | Brian Puaca, Christopher Newport University | Remembering World War II in European Cinema |
| 2008 | Claudia Pummer, University of Iowa | |
| 2008 | Peter J. Ramberg, Truman State University | Science in Germany, 1800-1945 |
| 2008 | Christian Rogowski, Amherst College | Comedy and Humor |
| 2008 | Christian Rogowski, Amherst College | Popular Cinema |
| 2008 | Anne Rothe, Wayne State University | Children and Childhood in 19th- & 20th-Century German Culture |
| 2008 | Martin A. Ruehl, Trinity Hall (Cambridge University) | Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in Modern European Thought |
| 2008 | Martin A. Ruehl, Trinity Hall (Cambridge University) | |
| 2008 | Greg Shealy, University of Wisconsin, Madison | Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| 2008 | Todd Weir, Queen's University Belfast | Critic or Prophet? The Intellectual in Modern Germany |
| 2008 | Jonathan Zatlin, Boston University | The Historian's Craft: Twentieth-Century Germany |
| 2008 | Jonathan Zatlin, Boston University | Jews in Modern German History |
| 2010 | Kit Belgum, University of Texas at Austin | German Nationalisms |
| 2010 | Volker Benkert, Arizona State University | Masternarratives |
| 2010 | Dennis Crockett, Whitman College | German Visual Culture |
| 2010 | Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University | The Modern Girl |
| 2010 | Katharina Matro, Stanford University | Life in the Divided City: A History of Postwar Berlin, 1945 to 2009 + course website |
| 2010 | Mirko M. Hall, Converse College | German Intellectual History |
| 2010 | Daniel H. Magilow, University of Tennessee – Knoxville | Nation, Race, Ethnicity: Germans as Victims? |
| 2010 | Daniel H. Magilow, University of Tennessee – Knoxville | |
| 2010 | Sonja L. Mekel, University of Wisconsin | Jews in Germany |
| 2010 | Martin A. Ruehl, Trinity Hall | Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment |
| 2010 | Paul Rutschmann, University Texas at Arlington | Weimar: The Golden Twenties |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University | Weimar Germany |
| 2010 | Alice Weinreb, Northwestern University | From World War to Cold War: The Politics and Cultures of Occupied Germany 1945-1949 |
| 2010 | Cecile Zorach, Franklin & Marshall College | Germany Concealed & Revealed |
| 2015 | Jeff Bowersox, University College London Kristin Kopp, University of Missouri
| Black Germany: The Cultural History of Africans and People of African Descent in the German-Speaking Lands from Antiquity to the Present |
Nazi Germany/Holocaust Courses
2006 | Andrew Donson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | The Holocaust as History Nazi Germany |
2006 | *Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University | Nazi Germany and the Holocaust |
2006 | Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College | The History of the Holocaust |
2006 | Bonnie Harris, UC Santa Barbara | Holocaust Memorialization: National & International Perspectives |
2006 | Michael Hayse, Stockton College of New Jersey | |
2006 | Christopher R. Jackson, San Francisco State University | The Holocaust and Genocide German National Socialism |
2006 | Jeremy King, Mount Holyoke College | The Holocaust in History |
2006 | Dennis B. Klein, Kean College | The Nazi Era: The Politics and Culture of Totalitarianism |
2006 | Arnold Krammer, Texas A&M University | Nazi Germany |
2006 | Harold Marcuse, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara | Portraying the Perpetrators (Lower Division) Course Weblink: Portraying Readings on the Holocaust (Upper Lower Division) |
2006 | *M. E. Menninger, Texas State University at San Marcos | Germany and National Socialism |
2006 | Nancy Nenno/Richard Bodek, College of Charleston | From Weimar to Hitler: Modern Culture -- Degenerate Culture -- Nazi Culture |
2006 | Sara Sewell, Virginia Wesleyan College | The Holocaust |
| 2008 | Thomas Adam, University of Texas-Arlington | Hitler: History and Image |
| 2008 | David Brenner | Die Darstellung des Holocaust im Film – Representing the Holocaust in Film |
| 2008 | Thomas Kühne, Clark University | The Holocaust Perpetrators |
| 2008 | Erin McGlothlin, Washington University in St. Louis | Children in the Shadow of the Swastika |
| 2008 | Eli Rubin, Western Michigan University | The Holocaust in History and Memory |
| 2008 | Lisa Stallbaumer-Beishline, Bloomsburg University | History of the Holocaust |
| 2008 | Lisa Stallbaumer-Beishline, Bloomsburg University | Hitler and the Third Reich |
| 2008 | Thomas Weber, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study | The Holocaust - Ghetto Life in its Historical Context |
| 2008 | Richard Wetzell, German Historical Institute, DC/Georgetown University | Nazi Germany |
| 2010 | Matt Bera, York University | Germany and the Nazi Past |
| 2010 | Jeff Bowersox, University of Southern Mississippi | Nazi Germany |
| 2010 | Astrid M. Eckert and Sander Gilman, Emory University | Nazi Medicine |
| 2010 | K. Hannah Holtschneider, New College | Visual Representation of the Holocaust |
| 2010 | Martin A. Ruehl, Trinity Hall | European Fascism |
| 2010 | Roland Spickermann, University of Texas – Permian Basin | The Third Reich and the Holocaust |
| 2010 | Edith Shaked, Pima Community College | The Holocaust |
| 2010 | Todd Weir, Queen’s University Belfast | Fascism and its Legacy in Germany: 1918 to 2005 |
| 2010 | Jonathan Wiesen, Southern Illinois University | The Holocaust in History and Literature |
| 2010 | Manuela Achilles, University of Virginia | Generation Green (Generation Green Guest Lectures) |
| 2010 | Kit Belgum, University of Texas at Austin | |
| 2010 | Andrew Bergerson and K. Scott Baker, University of Missouri -- Kansas City | |
| 2010 | Oliver Griffin, St. John Fisher College | Swastika on Celluloid |
| 2010 | Thomas O. Haakenson, Minneapolis College of Art and Design | The Grotesque |
| 2010 | Christelle Le Faucheur, University of Texas, Austin | German History through its Cinema |
| 2006 | Eric Anderson, Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons | Historicism and Decorative Arts Theory in Germany and Austria, 1851-1901 |
| 2006 | Margaret L. Anderson, University of California at Berkeley | History and Historiography of the German Problem |
| 2006 | Bonnie Harris, San Diego State | Holocaust Memorialization: National & International Perspectives |
| 2006 | Harold Marcuse, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara | Readings on German History |
| 2006 | Patricia Mazón, State University of New York at Buffalo | Readings in 20th-Century German History |
| 2008 | Astrid Eckert, Emory University | Writing History, Fighting History. Controversies in German Historiography after 1945 |
| 2008 | Erin McGlothlin, Washington University in St. Louis | Representing the Holocaust |
| 2008 | James Palmitessa, Western Michigan University | Readings in Central Europe (to 1378) |
| 2008 | James Palmitessa, Western Michigan University | Readings in Central Europe, 1378-1806 |
| 2008 | Anne Rothe, Wayne State University | Memory, Trauma, and Holocaust Representation |
| 2008 | Brian Vick, University of Colorado | Readings in European Politics and Culture, 1860-1914 |
| 2010 | Jeff Bowersox, University of Southern Mississippi | Nazi Germany |
| 2010 | Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University | Readings in Modern European History |
| 2010 | Astrid Eckert, Emory University | Writing History, Fighting History. Controversies in German Historiography after 1945 |
| 2015 | H. Glenn Penny, University of Iowa | Readings in (mostly) Modern German History |
The German Speaking Lands Before 1789
| 2015 | Jeff Bowersox, University College London Kristin Kopp, University of Missouri
| Black Germany: The Cultural History of Africans and People of African Descent in the German-Speaking Lands from Antiquity to the Present |
| 2010 | Thomas O. Haakenson, Minneapolis College of Art and Design | Project Kafka |
| 2010 | Mary Jo Maynes and Marynel Ryan van Zee, University of Minnesota | |
| 2010 | Edith Sheffer, Stanford University | Creating Lives |
| 2015 | Ashley Passmore, Texas A&M University | Mapping German Reiseliteratur |
| 2015 | Melissa Kravetz, Longwood University | Digital Essay |
*The syllabi of H-German editors were not included in the contest.