Curriculum Vitae

Claudia Koonz

333 Carr Building
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 684-3941 (office)

(email)

Education

PhD	Rutgers University	1969
MA	Columbia University	1964
BA	University of Wisconsin-Madison	1962

Areas of Research: Contemporary Islamophobia, Nazi racial politics, genocide

Areas of Interest: comparative genocides
history of Nazi racial policies
Gender in historiography of Nazi Germany
gender and ethnic violence

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Assoc Prof, after 1995, Professor, 1988 - 2004

The College of the Holy Cross: Assistant - Associate Prof, 1972 - 1988

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: American Academy, Berlin
Virginia Humanities Foundation (declined), Spring 2006
Woodrow Wilson Center (declined), June, 2005
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 2005
History Book Club Book of the Month selection, March, 2004
Belknap Book designation, Harvard University Press, January, 2003

Professional Service

Departmental Committee: committee member, William Donahue promotion committee (German Studies), December 2010; Executive Comittee, November 2004

University Committee: committee member, Baldwin Scholars Launch Committee, December 2004

University Service: Lecture, Perkins Board of Visitors, 2003; member, APT, during the fall term 1996 and 1999-2002; Search Committee for Women's Studies Director, 1999 - 2000; Co-Organizer, Duke Refugee Action Program, 1994 - 1998

Departmental Service: Search Committees: Russian 2002 & Military 2003; Search Committee for Modern Japan, 1996 - 1997

Service to the Profession: American Historical Association, 1975 - present; Member, Board of Facing History; President, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1996 - 1999; President, Berkshire Converence of Women's Historians, 1995 - 1998; Director, J.B. DuPont Seminar for College Teachers, June, 1997; Association of Asian Scholars, March, 1997; Served on NEH review panels for Modern European History, 1996 & 1997

Service to the Community: Co-Author of FHI LAB proposal "Borderwork(s)" 2011-2014, Duke University Human Rights Center, 2011- 2014; developed Duke Engage Internships for 2011 in Western China and Sarajevo, Bosnia, July, 2010 - present; board member, Duke University Human Rights Center, 2005 - present

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Muslim Headscarf: Religious Freedom or Muslim Threat?, Annual Kinnison Lecture, Wittenberg University, November 31, 2010; "Genocide and the Moral Order in a Globalized World,", Annual Abel Lecture on Dictatorship, Democracy and Genocide., University of Central Michigan, November 09, 2010; Chair and Comment, Crystal City, Arlington, VA, 9 October 2009; The Muslim Headscarf in Europe: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom?, University of Maryland Baltimore County, March 11, 2009; The Muslim Headscarf: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom?, Venice International University, November 26, 2008; What if anything Can Women's History & the History of Sexuality tell us about Genocide?, Berkshire Conference, University of Minnesota, June 13, 2008; Making Racism Respectable in the Third Reich, Bloomsburg University, April 17, 2008; The Right to Cover: The Muslim Headscarf Wars in Britain, France and Germany., Bloomsburg University, April 16, 2008; Making Racism Respectable, Florida Atlantic University, Baton Rouge, March 27, 2008; How Racism Became Respectable, Uppsala University, Sweden, March 4, 2008; European Law and Muslim Customs, Oslo, Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteter, March 03, 2008; Making Racism Respectable, UC Santa Barbara, February 26, 2008; "Covering" the Muslim Headscarf in European Law, Law School University of Winnepeg, Manitoba, January 16, 2008; Veiled Heads and Masked Faces:, UNC Global Education Center, April 27, 2007; Collective Responsibility, Ethics, and the Holocaust, Chapman University, March 31, 2007; The Right to Remain Hidden: the "Headscarf Wars", UW Madison, February 19, 2007; “Mobilization in Mass Politics: Agency, Gender and Race in The History of National Socialist Germany and its relevance in Mass Democracies in the Post Cold War World.”, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, July 04, 2006; 'Veiled threat: Islamic headscarf debates in France.', University of Cincinnati, Nov 10, 2005; Charles Phelps Taft Lecture, Nov 9, 2005; Faith-Based Politics: Hitler’s Campaigns for Ethnic Revival, Borough of Manhattan Community College, March 2005; Gender in Metanarratives of Nazi History, Senate House, University of London, October 13, 2005; How Decent People Learned to Hate: The Nazi Conscience, Westchester Holocaust Education Center, Manhattanville College, Dec 12, 2005; How Racism Became Respectable in Nazi Germany, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 13, 2005; How Racism became Respectable: An exploration of Nazi Public Culture.', Manhattan College, Bronxville, New York, Nov 1, 2005; Raul Hilberg Lecture, University of Vermont, Burlington, October 19, 2005; The Current State and Future Direction of Holocaust Studies, Gig Harbor, Washington, July 24-26; US Holocaust Memorial Museum Outreach Lecture, University of California at Northridge, March 25, 2005; `The Hijab and ethnic panic. Un-veiling in colonial narratives and present-day discourse in France'?, Senate House, University of London, October 14, 2005; Making Racism Respectable, Keynote, Facing History, Brookline Massachusetts, August 15, 2005; Robert S. Morton Lecture,, Northeastern University, March 30, 2005; “’The Jewish Question’ in Popular Racial Science, as Illustrated in the Periodical, Neues Volk.”, Brown University, November 0407, 2004; "Popular Political Culture in the Third Reich", Victoria & Albert, London, May 24, 2004; « L'historien, les images et l'usage politique du passé: le cas du national-socialisme,», Ecole des hautes études, Paris, May 7, 14 & 28, 2004; "Faith-Based Lies", Franklin Center, April 17, 2004; "The Politics of Impunity: Ethnic Renaissance and Racial War in Nazi Germany.", Franklin Center, March 31, 2004; The Culture of Impunity, The John Locke Foundation, Raleigh, March 22, 2004; Is there a European Identity?, Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program, Finalists' Conference in Berlin, undefined, 2006; NOVEMBER 9-10, 1938:POGROM. “Kristallnacht" (The Night of the Broken Glass)., 2005

Doctoral Theses Directed: Craig Pepin, The Holy Grail of Pure Wissenschaft:, (1995 - 2001)

Publications

Books

The Nazi Conscience (2003), Belknap: Harvard University Press
Becoming Visible : Women in European History, edited by C. Koonz with Renate Bridenthal and Susan Stuard (1987), Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Mothers in the Fatherland : Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (1987), New York : St. Martin's Press (translated into French, German, and Japanese.)

Papers Published

Claudia Koonz, Unmasking Multiculturalism: Muslim Memoirs Probe the Limits of Tolerance, Berlin Journal, vol. 12 no. spring, 2006 (Spring, 2006), pp. 5-8
More Masculine Men. More Feminine Women. Gender and Race in Nazi Popular Culture, Idea (Japanese Language) (Fall, 2003)
More Masculine Man. More Feminine Women: the Iconography of Racial Hatred in Nazi Popular Culture, in Landscaping the Human Garden, edited by Amir Wiener and Norman Naimark (2003), Stanford University Press
The Facist Answer to the Women Question, in Germany, Italy, France and Spain, in Becoming Visible Women in European History, 3rd Edition, edited by Bridenthal, Wiesener, Stuard (1998), Boston: Houghton-Mifflin

Book Chapters

C. Koonz, Hijab: A Word in Motion, in Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon, edited by Anna Tsing and Carol Gluck (2009), Duke University Press, ISBN [ISBN13 978-0-8223-4536-7]
C. Koonz, NEBENSTRANG UND HAUPTSTRÖMUNG:, in Geschlecht in moderner deutschen Geschichte, edited by Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert (2008), Campus, Frankfurt a.M., ISBN 3 593 38 3829
C. Koonz, A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory, and the Historiography of Nazi Germany, in Gendering Modern German History, edited by Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert (2008), pp. 147-168, Berghahn, Oxford and New York, ISBN 9 781845 45 2070 (www.berghahnbooks.com.)
C. Koonz, THE QUEST FOR A RESPECTABLE RACISM:, edited by Dan Diner, Simon Dubnow Jahrbuch (Winter, 2007), ISBN 9783525369333

Articles in a Collection

C. Koonz, Agency, Gender, and Race in Nazi Germany, in Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorships: Between Mobilization and Liberation, Korean edition (I can't read the name of the Press), edited by Jie-Hyun Lim and Karen Petrone (Fall, 2010), pp. 61-91, Blackwell will release English ed on Jan 11, 2011, http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Gender_Politics_and_Mass_Dictatorship/9780230242043#synopsis, ISBN 9788958623052

Other

C. Koonz, What Can a Document Tell Us?, edited by David Scrace (2010), Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont (..)
War and Remembrance [sound recording] (1994), R.T.P. [i.e. Research Triangle Park], NC : National Humanities Center

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