Jonathan D. Huener
Director of Holocaust Studies
Professor of History
Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies
Wheeler House, Room 314
133 S Prospect St
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
Area(s) of expertise
Modern Germany, Holocaust, Poland, 20th-century Europe.
BIO
Joining the University of Vermont faculty in 1996, Jonathan Huener earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Director of the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at UVM, he teaches courses on the Holocaust, German history, Polish history, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe.
His research has focused on German-occupied Poland during World War Two, public memory in post-World War II Germany and Poland, Polish-Jewish relations, and Auschwitz. Huener is author of Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979 (Ohio University Press, 2003), which was awarded the 2004 Orbis Books Prize in Polish Studies from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He is co-editor, with Francis R. Nicosia, of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies (Berghahn, 2002), Business and Industry in Nazi Germany (Berghahn, 2004), The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change (Berghahn, 2006) and, with Andrea Löw, Poland under German Occupation: New Perspectives (Berghahn, 2024). His most recent monograph, The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation, 1939-1945, appeared with Indiana University Press in 2021. In 2024-2025 he was the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Bio
Joining the University of Vermont faculty in 1996, Jonathan Huener earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Director of the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at UVM, he teaches courses on the Holocaust, German history, Polish history, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe.
His research has focused on German-occupied Poland during World War Two, public memory in post-World War II Germany and Poland, Polish-Jewish relations, and Auschwitz. Huener is author of Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979 (Ohio University Press, 2003), which was awarded the 2004 Orbis Books Prize in Polish Studies from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He is co-editor, with Francis R. Nicosia, of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies (Berghahn, 2002), Business and Industry in Nazi Germany (Berghahn, 2004), The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change (Berghahn, 2006) and, with Andrea Löw, Poland under German Occupation: New Perspectives (Berghahn, 2024). His most recent monograph, The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation, 1939-1945, appeared with Indiana University Press in 2021. In 2024-2025 he was the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.