The Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University

Curriculum Vitae

Claudia Koonz

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Durham, NC 27708

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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

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Muslim Headscarf: Religious Freedom or Muslim Threat?, Annual Kinnison Lecture, Wittenberg University, November 31, 2010 [available here]; "Genocide and the Moral Order in a Globalized World,", Annual Abel Lecture on Dictatorship, Democracy and Genocide., University of Central Michigan, November 09, 2010 [xml]; 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 [view]; 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 [php]; Making Racism Respectable, Florida Atlantic University, Baton Rouge, March 27, 2008 [php]; How Racism Became Respectable, Uppsala University, Sweden, March 4, 2008 [hugo-valentin-foerelaesning-om-hur-rasismen-fick-gott-anseende-199617]; European Law and Muslim Customs, Oslo, Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteter, March 03, 2008 [Om_HL-senteret]; Making Racism Respectable, UC Santa Barbara, February 26, 2008 [available here]; "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 [available here]; Charles Phelps Taft Lecture, Nov 9, 2005 [available here]; Faith-Based Politics: Hitler’s Campaigns for Ethnic Revival, Borough of Manhattan Community College, March 2005 [available here]; 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 [calendar.htm#dec12]; How Racism Became Respectable in Nazi Germany, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 13, 2005 [html]; How Racism became Respectable: An exploration of Nazi Public Culture.', Manhattan College, Bronxville, New York, Nov 1, 2005 [news.shtml]; Raul Hilberg Lecture, University of Vermont, Burlington, October 19, 2005 [article.php]; 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 [available here]; `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 [available here]; Robert S. Morton Lecture,, Northeastern University, March 30, 2005 [htm]; “’The Jewish Question’ in Popular Racial Science, as Illustrated in the Periodical, Neues Volk.”, Brown University, November 0407, 2004 [html]; "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 [fr]; "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 [available here]

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

Publications (listed separately)

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