Mary Nolan (historian)

Mary Nolan (born January 17, 1947 ) is an American historian . Her research interests include the modern history of Germany and the mutual relationship between the United States and Europe in the 20th century.

Life

Nolan studied at Smith College , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1966 . She then continued her studies at Columbia University , where she received a Master of Arts in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1975. PhD .

From 1975 to 1980 she taught as an assistant professor of history at Harvard University . In addition, she was Research Associate at the University's Center for European Studies from 1976 to 1980 . In 1980 she moved to New York University , where she has been teaching history ever since, from 1980 to 1985 as Assistant Professor, from 1985 to 1993 as Associate Professor and since 1993 as Professor. As such, she held the Lillian Vernon Professorship for Teaching Excellence from 1999 to 2002 and was also Chair of the University's Department of History during the same period .

Her book Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany won the 1995 George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association . In 2013 she received the Helmut Schmidt Prize for German-American Economic History .

Nolan has served on the Politics and Society Editorial Board since 1977 . Since 1984 she has been a member of the Editorial Board of International Labor and Working-Class History . He was also a member of the editorial board of Radical History Review from 1975 to 1982 and of the editorial board of the Journal of Modern History from 1993 to 1997 .

Publications

• Social Democracy and Society: Working-class Radicalism in Düsseldorf, 1890–1920. Cambridge University Press , 1981
• Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany. Oxford University Press , 1994
• with Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann (eds.): Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century. New Press, 2002
• with Monika Kraus, Michael Palm, Andrew Ross (Eds.): The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace. Temple University Press, 2008.
• The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890-2010. Cambridge University Press, 2012
• with Jan Logemann (ed.): More Atlantic Crossings. German Historical Institute Bulletin Supplement. German Historical Institute Washington , Washington, DC 2014.

Web links

• Entry on the New York University website