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Lisa Zwicker is
an Assistant Professor of History with a specialty in modern German history. She
completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California,
Berkeley and is presently revising a book manuscript with the title, “The New
Nobility for a Democratic Age: Students, Everyday Life, and Politics in
Wilhelmine Universities, 1890-1914.” She is particularly interested in processes
of cultural change, the impact of religious and ethnic prejudices, and the rise
of nationalism in the nineteenth century
RECENT COURSE OFFERINGS
Nazi Germany
This class examine the cataclysmic events that took place in Germany and Europe
in the 1930s and 1940s. We will focus in particular on three areas: the downfall
of democracy in Germany, the lines between resistance and consent in the Nazi
state, and the Holocaust. Through the use of government documents, personal
memoirs, contemporary criticism, and the historians' analysis students will gain
a new understanding of this important period.
Biography and Gender in European history
In this course, we examine how individuals learn and negotiate their gender
roles. Every week we will focus in depth on a pair of historical figures and
study they ways that they understood themselves as men or women and the ways
that their gender shaped their roles and their experiences. We will draw on
interdisciplinary approaches in particular history, political science,
anthropology, and gender and literary studies.
Western Culture
This class examines the history of Europe from 1500 to the outbreak of World War
I, including the transformations of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific
Revolution, the world of the Enlightenment Salon, the Industrial and French
Revolutions, the rise of nationalism, and the creation of mass society. Through
a range of primary and secondary sources we will analyze both larger economic,
political, and cultural changes as well as the impact of these changes on the
everyday life of European women and men. We will pay particular attention to the
evolving understandings of authority hierarchies, gender roles, and relations
between Europeans and non-Europeans. This class will also allow us to study the
values that undergird our own society and the ways we can or should balance
liberty and security, freedom and equality, preserving community and individual
opportunity.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
• "Matters of
Honor and German Academic Life: Jewish
and Catholic Students at German Universities
1890-1914," [forthcoming conference volume 2008]
Spring 2007, Review of Dyhouse, Carol. Students: A Gendered History
London & New York: Routledge Publishers 2006, Social History
• "New Directions in Research on Masculinity and Confession,"
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und
Ruprecht, 2006
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Review of Krieger, Karsten. Der "Berliner Antisemitismusstreit" 1879-1881: Eine Kontroverse
um die Zugehörigkeit der deutschen Juden zur Nation, Kommentierte Quellenedition
Munich: Saur, K G, 2004. H-German, 2005.
- "Facing Antisemitism: Jewish Students at German Universities, 1890-1914,"
Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook. Dan Diner, ed. (3) 2004.
- "Culture Wars," Religion and the Nation. Michael Geyer and
Hartmut Lehman, eds. Göttingen: Max Plank Institute, 2003.
note: these articles were published under my previous name, Lisa Fetheringill
Swartout.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
• January 2007,
"Confessional Conflict, Gender, and Middle-Class Morality at German
Universities," American Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
• January 2007, "The Making of Antisemites and the Limitations of Antisemitic
Rhetoric at German Universities," Center for Jewish Studies, Indiana University,
Bloomington
• December 2006, "Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective, German and American
University Students, 1890-1914," History Department Colloquium, Indiana
University South Bend
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