Curriculum Vitae

Claudia Koonz


Contact Info
    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

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, 0 2006
  • 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, January 2003

Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. C. Koonz. "Hijab: A Word in Motion." Words that Travel. Edited by Anna Tsing and Carol Gluck. 2009.
  2. C. Koonz. "NEBENSTRANG UND HAUPTSTRÖMUNG:." Geschlecht in moderner deutschen Geschichte. Edited by Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert. 2008.
  3. C. Koonz. "THE QUEST FOR A RESPECTABLE RACISM:." . Edited by Dan Diner. Winter, Winter, 2007. [html]
  4. Claudia Koonz. "Unmasking Multiculturalism: Muslim Memoirs Probe the Limits of Tolerance." Berlin Journal 12:spring, 2006 (Spring, Spring, 2006): 5-8. [index.php]  [abs]
Selected Talks

  • 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)


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