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Department Affiliations
Specialties
- human rights
- modern German and European history
- Third Reich
- Weimar Republic
- World War II
- Holocaust and Genocides
Publications
- Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Weitz, Eric D, Princeton University Press, Author, 1997. Link
- The Heroic Man and the Ever-Changing Woman: Gender and Politics in European Communism, 1917-1950: Weitz, Eric D, Cornell University Press, Gender and Class in Modern Europe, 1996.
- Racial Politics without the Concept of Race: Reexaming Soviet Ethnic and National Purges. Weitz, Eric D, Slavic Review, 2002.
- A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Weitz, Eric D, Princeton University Press, Author, 2003. Link
- Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe. Weitz, Eric D, Angelica Fenner, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy. Weitz, Eric D, Princeton University Press, Author, 2007. Link
Research Activities
- Germans Abroad: The Herero and Armenian Genocides and the Origins of the Holocaust: an exploration of German imperial policies in Southwest Africa and the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the twentieth century and their relation to the Holocaust, June 2003 - June 2008
- Living with Modernity: Weimar Germany, 1918-1933: a political, social, and cultural history of Weimar Germany that conveys both the excitement and the dangers of the era, June 2000 - June 2005
- From the Vienna to the Paris System: International Politics and the Entangled Histories of Human Rights, Forced Deportations, and Civilizing Missions: An analysis of the combined histories of human rights and grave atrocities., June 2006 - June 2010
Creative Activities
- "COEXISTENCE: An Outdoor Exhibition with Teacher Workshops and Electronic Student Exhibit, Minneapolis, St. Paul, MN: May 1, 2004 - July 6, 2004
- Project organizer, Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of the European Empres, 1848-Present: an international, multidisciplinary graduate student and faculty research project on the origins and manifestations of ethnic conflict, March 2002 - June 2006
- Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts: organize lectures, conferences, and exhibits related to Armenian history and culture, July 2001 - July 2004
- Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair: 2001 - 2009
Professional Activities
- Chair, Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian, College of Liberal Arts, History: 2001 - 2009
- Professor of History: teaching and research on modern German and European history , 1999
- Director, Center for German and European Studies: promote research, teaching, and public outreach on Germany and Europe and on trans-Atlantic relations , 2001 - 2006
- Chair: Chair, History Department , 2006 - 2009
Outreach Activities
- Director, Center for German and European Studies: organize lectures and symposia on Germany and Europe, July 2002 - June 2005
- Borderlands: Turkish-Armenian-Greek Film Festival: a film festival in conjunction with Minnesota Film Arts, April 30, 2004 - May 7, 2004
- Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts: organize lectures, conferences, and exhibits on Armenian history and culture, July 2001 - June 2009
Awards
- German Academic Exchange Service Fellowships, 1979 - 1980
- ACLS and SSRC Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, 1991
- IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board), 1992
- National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1992
- German Academic Exchange Service Fellowships, 1998
- IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board), 1989
- IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board), 1984
- Principal Investigator, German Academic Exchange Service renewal grant for the Center for German and European Studies, $1,250,000, January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2007
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grant for Germans Abroad: The Herero and Armenian Genocides and the Origins of the Holocaust, July 2003 - June 2004
- Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 for A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Natoin
Courses Taught
- Hist 3633 - Modern Germany, 1870-Present
- Hist 5740 - Topics in Modern German History: Weimar Germany
- Nazi Germany and Hitler's Europe
- Race, Nation, and Genocides in the Modern World
- Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Conflict in the Shatter-Zones of Empires, 1900-1950
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