Curriculum Vitae  Claudia Koonz

333 Carr Building Durham, NC 27708 (919) 684-3941 ckoonz@duke.edu

Education

• PhD, 1969, Rutgers University
• MA, 1964, Columbia University
• BA, 1962, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Junior Year at the University of Munich, 1961
• MA, 1964, Columbia University
• BA, 1962, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of Research

Contemporary Islamophobia, Nazi racial politics, genocideProfessional Experience / Employment History

• Duke University: Assoc Prof, after 1995, Professor, 1988 - 2004
• The College of the Holy Cross: Assistant - Associate Prof, 1972 - 1988

• 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

• Duke University Human Rights Center, 2005 - present
• American Historical Association, 1975 - present
• Baldwin Scholars Launch Committee, December 2004
• Executive Comittee, November 2004
• Board of Facing History
• Lecture, Perkins Board of Visitors, 2003
• Search Committees: Russian 2002 & Military 2003
• APT, during the fall term 1996 and 1999-2002
• Search Committee for Women's Studies Director, 1999 - 2000
• Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1996 - 1999
• Berkshire Converence of Women's Historians, 1995 - 1998
• Duke Refugee Action Program, 1994 - 1998
• Search Committee for Modern Japan, 1996 - 1997
• 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

Selected Recent Talks and Lectures

• "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.

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

Publications and Professional Lectures (listed separately)