Alan E. Steinweis, Professor of History and Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies

• Ph.D., North Carolina,, 1988
• C.V.

Area of expertise

Nazi Germany, Holocaust, modern Europe

Contact Information

Email: Alan E. Steinweis

Phone: (802) 656-1438

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Professor Alan E. Steinweis specializes in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked under the distinguished historian Gerhard L. Weinberg. He is the author of three books: Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (University of North Carolina Press, 1993; paperback 1996); Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (Harvard University Press, 2006; paperback 2008); and Kristallnacht 1938 (Harvard University Press, 2009). Studying the Jew was designated a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. He has co-edited three further volumes: The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy (University of Nebraska Press, 2003; paperback 2007); Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates about Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 (Berghahn Books, 2006, paperback 2007); and The Law in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (Berghahn Books, forthcoming). He is the series editor of the American edition of the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, a monograph series sponsored by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust research and commemoration authority of the state of Israel, and published by the University of Nebraska Press. He has also published several articles addressing the memory of the Holocaust in Germany and the United States.

Professor Steinweis has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Commission, and the Skirball Foundation. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Hannover and Heidelberg in Germany, and at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and has been a visiting fellow at the Free University of Berlin and at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. During the Spring 2011 semester he held the visiting professorship in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies and German-Jewish History at the Fritz Bauer Institute of the University of Frankfurt. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin.

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