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Expertise
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Work
Work
Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
With J. Petropoulos and J. Roth (eds.), Lessons and Legacies IX: Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future (Northwestern University Press, 2010).
"Hang Hitler! The Three Stooges Take Potshots at Nazis," in 350 Years of Jews in Popular Culture (L. Greenspoon and R. Simkis, eds., University of Nebraska Press, 2007) (Revised version in Stoogeology, P Seely and G.W. Pieper, eds., McFarland Press, 2007)
"Laughter and Heartache: The Functions of Humor in Holocaust Tragedy," in Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (J. Petropoulos and J. Roth (eds.), Berghahn Books, 2005)
"The Holocaust in American Jewish Life," in The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (D.E. Kaplan, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005)
"Holocaust Pornography: Profaning the Sacred in 'Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS,'" in Shofar, 22, Fall 2003. (Reprinted in S. Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenuis (eds.) Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture, Praeger, 2010) forthcoming.
"Hollywood's Holocaust: 'Schindler's List' and the Construction of Memory," Film and History, 32, 2002
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Study Visit Research Grant for Faculty, 1994
American Sociological Association, Best Book Award in the Sociology of Religion for Jews in Germany after the Holocaust, 1998
Society for the Study of Social Problems, C. Wright Mills Award Finalist for book Jews in Germany after the Holocaust, 1998
Johns Hopkins University, The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Bosch Younger Scholars Fellowship, 1993-1994
American Association of University Women (AAUW), Dissertation Fellowship, 1987-1988