PhD., University of British Columbia
M.A., University of Victoria
B.A., Thompson Rivers University
Fields of Interest:
Modern Germany, Europe, Gender, Jewish History, the Holocaust.
Dissertation Title:
Stolen Manhood? German-Jewish Masculinities in the Third Reich (UBC, 2017)
Book:
Fighter, Worker and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022)
- Book Finalist for Wallace K. Ferguson Price for Best Book in Non-Canadian History, Canadian Historical Association 2023
- Book Finalist for Best Book in German Studies, Center for German Studies, University of Waterloo 2023
- Awarded ‘Outstanding Academic Title’ by CHOICE magazine (American Library Association) 2023
Refereed Articles & Book Chapters:
- “Die deutsch-nationalistischen Juden im Dritten Reich: Ein Fall von Selbsttäuschung?,“ in Das nationaldeutsche Judentum Geschichte, Politik und Beziehungen, edited by Niels Dickhaut and Dniel Meiss. Cologne: Transcript Verlag, 2025. In English: “The nationalistic German Jews in the Third Reich: A Case of Self-deception?”
- “Nazi KZs as Gendered Jewish Spaces? German-Jewish Masculinity and the Negotiation of Gender Practices in Prewar Nazi Concentration Camps,” Jewish Culture and History 21 No. 1 (2020): 24-41.
- “Conceptualizing Gender and Fear: German-Jewish Masculinities in the Third Reich and the Dread of the Unknown” in Fear in the German-Speaking World 1600-2000, edited by Michael Pickering and Thomas Kehoe. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- “Disguise and Defiance: German-Jewish Men and their ‘Underground’ Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1941-1945,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 36, No. 3 (Winter 2018), pp. 110-142.
- “Victor Klemperer: A Jew but also a Man: The Importance of Understanding German-Jewish Masculinities,” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol 12, No.2 (November 2016): 1-28.
- “Cultural Exceptionalism? The Case of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Third Reich.” Madison Historical Review, 11 (April 2014): 21-51.
Book Reviews:
- Upcoming: Susanna Schraftstetter, Flight and Concealment: Surviving the Holocaust Underground in Munich and Beyond. Indiana University Press, 2022. Published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- Mary Fulbrook, Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.Oxford University Press, 2023. Published in Journal of Social History, February 2025.
- Otto Schrag & Peter Schrag, When Europe was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941.Indiana University Press, 2015. Published in H-Net. April 2017 (Invited).
- Kerstin von Lingen: Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals: The Dynamics of Selective Prosecution. Cambridge University Press, 2013. H-Net, December 2015.
- Thomas Friedrich: Hitler’s Berlin. Yale University Press, 2012. Published in European History Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, April 2014: 327-329.
Other:
“Nazi Propaganda and Sexuality,” Zachor, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre Newsletter, Fall 2022
