Mark Roseman

• Pat M Glazer Chair, Jewish Studies Program
• Professor, Department of History
• Adjunct Professor, Department of German

Education

• B.A. (Hons) at Christ's College, Cambridge University, 1979
• M.A. at Cambridge University, 1981
• Ph.D. at Warwick University, 1987

Contact Information

Ballantine Hall, Rm. 732

(812) 855-8325

Background

I am a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history. My publications have covered a wide range of topics in German, European and Jewish history, including life-reform and protest in 1920s and 1930s Germany; Holocaust survival and memory; Nazi policy and perpetrators; the social impact of total war; post-1945 German and European reconstruction; generation conflict and youth rebellion; Jewish and other minorities in modern German history. I also have an interest in comparative history and in particular in German-Japanese comparisons. My current research projects include a critical synthesis of recent work on Nazi perpetrators, and a project looking at a life-reform and resistance group in Germany 1920-2000.

Selected Awards

• Geschwister Scholl Prize (2003)
• Lucas Prize Project Mark Lynton prize (2002)
• Jewish Quarterly's Wingate Literary Prize (2001)
• Fraenkel prize (2000)
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1998)

Research Interests

• History of the Holocaust
• 20th-Century German history
• European post-1945 reconstruction
• Comparative history, including German-Japanese comparisons

Courses Recently Taught

• History of the Holocaust
• Antisemitism since the enlightenment
• Perpetrators of the Holocaust
• The rise and fall of racial empire in Germany and Japan 1870-1950
• Nazism and German Society
• War and Violence in 20th Century Europe
• Life after Death. Rebuilding German Society after 1945

Publication Highlights

Books

The villa, the lake, the meeting. The Wannsee Conference and the 'final solution', Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002

The past in hiding, Harmondsworth: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press 2000.

Recasting the Ruhr 1945-1957. Manpower, economic recovery and labour relations, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1992.

(with Carl Levy) Three postwar eras in comparison. Western Europe 1918-1945-1989, London, New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Generations in conflict. Youth rebellion and generation formation in modern Germany 1770-1968, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995

German History from the Margins, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2006 (with Neil Gregor and Nils Roemer)

Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity. Essays on Modern German History, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007 (with Frank Biess and Hanna Schissler)