Dr. Alan Steinweiss "Kristallnacht in History and Memory"
Manhattan College Smith Hall, 4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx, New York
Alan E. Steinweis is the Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies.
Professor Steinweis is the author of three books: Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (University of North Carolina Press, 1993; paperback 1996); Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (Harvard University Press, 2006; paperback 2008). He is currently writing a history of Nazi Germany for Cambridge University Press.
He is the co-editor of four further volumes: The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy (University of Nebraska Press, 2003; paperback 2007); Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates about Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 (Berghahn Books, 2006, paperback 2007); The Law in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (Berghahn Books, 2013); and The German People and the Persecution of the Jews (in preparation). He is the series editor of the American edition of the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, a monograph series sponsored by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust research and commemoration authority of the state of Israel, and published by the University of Nebraska Press. He has also published several articles addressing the memory of the Holocaust in Germany and the United States.
Professor Steinweis has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Commission, and the Skirball Foundation. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Hannover and Heidelberg in Germany, and at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and has been a visiting fellow at the Free University of Berlin and at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. During the Spring 2011 semester he held the visiting professorship in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies and German-Jewish History at the Fritz Bauer Institute of the University of Frankfurt. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin.