Steven Schroeder
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| Email: steven.schroeder[at]ufv.ca |
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Office: T107 ( Abbotsford Campus) |
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Ph: 604-504-7441 ext. 4131 |
| Education: PhD (University of Notre Dame) |
| Specialty: Twentieth-century German history, modern European history, Holocaust, Religion, Arab-Israel Relations |
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Steven’s work focuses on conflict and peace building in modern Europe, particularly in Germany. His Master’s thesis (UBC) examines the Mennonite community of West Prussia during the Nazi era. Supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Steven conducted research in Europe in 2004-2005, and he has presented his work at conferences in Canada, Germany, Austria, and the United States. He is currently revising for publication his dissertation, titled: “Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954.” This project explores the motivations and actions of individuals and NGOs from Germany and abroad who labored during the first decade after the Second World War to establish peaceful relations between the German people and their wartime victims and enemies. |
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Review of Kevin Spicer, Hitler’s Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism (Northern Illinois University Press in association with the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, 2008) in Canadian Journal of History.
“Mennonite-Nazi Collaboration and Coming to Terms with the Past: European Mennonites and the MCC, 1945-1950,” Conrad Grebel Review (Spring, 2003).
Review of Cynthia Sampson and John Paul Lederach (eds.) From the Ground
Up: Mennonite Contributions to International Peacemaking (Oxford
University Press, 2000). Association of Contemporary Church Historians (May 2001). |
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| Current Projects |
| "Reconciliation in Occupied German, 1944-1954" (revising for publication). |
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| Conference Participation: |
| "Christian-Jewish Reconciliation in Occupied Germany." American Historical Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 2007. |
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| "Beyond Guilt and Victimhood: Reconciliation in Occupied German, 1945-1952." After Fascism Conference, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 19-21 May, 2005. |
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“NGOs and Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948.” Heidelberg Institute for American Studies, Winter Colloquium, Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 14-15 January, 2005. |
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“Mennonite-Nazi Collaboration and Coming to Terms with the Past: East European Mennonites and the MCC, 1945-1950.” Issues in the Future of Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholarship, Toronto, ON, 21-23 November, 2002. |
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“Jus Sanguinis, Guest Workers and Immigration: Challenges to German Sovereignty, National Identity and Notions of Citizenship over the Last Five Decades.” International German Colloquium, Vancouver, BC, 30 May – 1 June, 2001. |
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