Lisa Zwicker
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, “Dueling Students in a Slowly Democratizing Germany: Masculinity, Conflict, and Politics within German Student Life 1890 to 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
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 the 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.
The Great War
The Great War of 1914-1918 remade the world. New nations emerged. Empires dissolved. Million perished in ‘hurricanes of steel.’ World War I stands as the portal to a century of mass ideologies and paved the way for the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the rise of fascism, and the transformation of European societies. This class will investigate the experiences of those who lived and died in the first total war.
Recent Publications
“The Burschenschaft and Wilhelmine Political Culture,” accepted for publication in the spring 2009 issue of Central European History
"Matters of Honor and German Academic Life: Jewish and Catholic Students at German Universities 1890-1914," [forthcoming]
Book Review: Spring 2008, Walkenhorst, Peter. Nation – Volk-Rasse: Radikaler Nationalismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1890-1914 Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. H-German.
"New Directions in Research on Masculinity and Confession," Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History 19 (2006): 315-335.
Book Review: Spring 2007, Dyhouse, Carol. Students: A Gendered History London & New York: Routledge Publishers, 2006, Social History
"Facing Antisemitism: Jewish Students at German Universities, 1890-1914," Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur Dan Diner, ed. 2 (2004): 149-165.
"Segregation or Integration? Honor and Masculinity in Jewish Dueling Fraternities," Towards Normality? Assimilation and Acculturation within German-speaking Jewry Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter, eds. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004, 185-200.
"Culture Wars," Religion und Nation - Nation und Religion: Beiträge zu einer unbewältigten Geschichte Michael Geyer and Hartmut Lehman, eds. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004, 157-175.
"Mut, Mensur und Männlichkeit," In Breslau zu Hause? Juden in einer mitteleuropäischen Metropole der Neuzeit Manfred Hettling, Andreas Reinke, Till van Rahden, eds. Hamburg: Schriftenreihe des Instituts für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, 2003, 148-166.
note: some publications appeared under my previous name: Lisa Fetheringill Swartout
Honors and Fellowships
Spring 2008, Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, South Bend.
Spring 2008, Research Fellowship Indiana University New Frontiers and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, “The Movement against the Pistol Duel and Academic Honor among German Students, 1901-1903,” Koblenz and Berlin Germany.
Summer 2007, Research Fellowship, Indiana University, South Bend, “The Unpolitical German? Students and the Last Elections of the German Empire, 1907-1912.”
2005-2006, President, Chancellor Fellowship Alumni Association, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Summer 2006, Research Fellowship, Indiana University New Frontiers, “Women Students and Performing Gender at German Universities.”
Selected Recent Invited Papers
January 2009, Chair and Commentator, “Exploring the Boundaries of the Sacred and Secular in German Europe.”
October 2008, “The Conservative Moral Agenda and German Students,” German Studies Association Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
October 2007, “Academic Honor and the Movement against the Pistol Duel at German Universities,” German Studies Association Meeting, San Diego, California.
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.
Teaching Presentations and Undergraduate Research
“Primary Source Research in the Undergraduate Classroom and the Digital Times of London” article drafted jointly with librarian Alison Stankrauff planned submission to History Teacher
Fall 2008 UCET teaching partnership with Kelcey Parker in which we will focus on collaborative classroom discussions and using Oncourse effectively.
Fall 2008 coordinated student undergraduate research presentation series at IUSB by Phil Contos, “The Nazi Invasion of Poland and British Promises to Poland” 8 October 2008
August 2008 UCET presentation on teaching partnerships with Jay VanderVeen for new faculty
• April 2008 “Mentoring future scholars,” Poster presentation on undergraduate research together with Jay VanderVeen at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference
Spring 2008 coordinated student undergraduate research presentation series at IUSB by Derek Webb” The Open Housing Movement in South Bend” 10 April 2008 and Jennifer Wise, “Speak Genoa, What have you Done?” 28 February 2008
April 2008 IU Women’s Studies Conference “From Strength to Strength, Celebrating our Founds, Celebrating our students.” Mentored student research presentations by Amanda Buday, Rebecca Gibson, Rachel Custer
April 2008 Purdue University, Calumet undergraduate research conference. Mentored student research presentations by Phil Contos, Jennifer Wise, Amanda Buday, Derek Webb, Erin Daren.
Spring 2008 UCET teaching partnership with Jay VanderVeen in which we focused on undergraduate research.
April 2007 Purdue University, Calumet undergraduate research conference. Mentored student research presentations by Derek Webb, Erin Daren, Sara Lowe, Tara Gulstrom, Anny Gouin.
