Alan E. Steinweis

Alan E. Steinweis (born January 13, 1957 in Brooklyn ) is an American historian .

Life

Steinweis received his PhD in 1988 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under Gerhard L. Weinberg . As a doctoral candidate, Steinweis was a scholarship holder at the University of Bonn and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin . He has worked several times as a visiting professor at universities outside of America, for example in 2000 at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel , in 2002 at the University of Hanover and in 2003 as Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Heidelberg . From 1993 to 2008 he worked at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln (Nebraska) , most recently as Hyman Rosenberg Professor. Since 2009 he has been Professor of History and Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont and director of the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies there . In the summer semester 2011 he was invited to the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main for a research semester . From the 2013/14 winter semester to the 2014/15 winter semester, he represented Michael Brenner at the chair for Jewish history and culture at the historical seminar at LMU Munich .

Steinweis is working on an overall account of the history of the Nazi dictatorship for Cambridge University Press under the title "The People's Dictatorship: A History of Nazi Germany".

Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1993, ISBN 0-8078-2104-7 .
Eastern Europe an the Notion of the "frontier" in Germany to 1945, in: Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey J. Giles, Walter Pape (Eds.): Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural identities and cultural differences. Series: Yearbook of european studies, 13. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1999. ISBN 9042006889 , pp. 56–69 (pp. 67ff .: list of literature, especially on spatial planning under National Socialism, including many contemporary sources up to 1945, e.g. from the Nazi magazine Raumforschung und Raumordnung .) Visible in Google books
Edited with Daniel E. Rogers: The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2003, ISBN 0-8032-4299-9 .
Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-674-02205-X .
Edited with Philipp Gassert : Coping with the Nazi Past: West German debates on Nazism and generational conflict, 1955-1975. Berghahn, New York 2006, ISBN 1-8454-5086-8 .
Kristallnacht 1938. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03623-9 .
- German: Kristallnacht 1938: A German pogrom. Translated by Karin Schuler. Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-010774-4 .