Mark Edward Ruff

Mark Edward Ruff (* 1969 ) is an American historian and university professor .

Life

He graduated from the University at Buffalo , Honors Program, BA , May 1991, Summa Cum Laude; Brown University , MA , June 1992 and Brown University, Ph.D. , May 1999 (Doctoral Committee: Volker Berghahn , David Kertzer , Abbott Gleason ). He taught as Visiting Assistant Professor, Providence College (1998–1999) Visiting Assistant Professor, Wellesley College (1999) Associate Professor / Assistant Professor at Concordia University (1999–2002) / (2002–2004) and at Saint Louis University as Assistant Professor (2004–2007) and Associate Professor since 2007.

His main research interests are the history of German Catholicism in the 20th century, secularization theories, the history of memory and intellectual history.

Publications (selection)

• as editor with Claudia Hiepel : Christian workers' movement in Europe 1850–1950 . Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-018124-6 .
• The Wayward Flock. Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945–1965 . Chapel Hill 2005, ISBN 0-8078-2914-5 (also dissertation, Brown University 1999).
• as editor with Christoph Kösters: The Catholic Church in the Third Reich. An introduction . Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 3-451-30700-6 .
• The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 . Cambridge 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-19066-5 .
• as editor with Andreas Henkelmann, Christoph Kösters and Rosel Oehme-Vieregge: Katholizismus transnational. Contributions to Contemporary History in Western Europe and the United States , Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-24600-9 .

Web links

• Mark Ruff, Ph.D.