Daniel
E.
Rogers

 

Department of History
University of South Alabama
HUMB 344
Mobile, AL 36688
Voice: 251.460.7610
Fax: 251.460.6750
Home Page: http://www.southalabama.edu/history/faculty/rogers

 

 

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D., Modern European History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990

M.A., Modern European History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986

B.A., History major and German minor, summa cum laude, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1984

 

 

 

 

Academic
Honors

 

Fulbright Scholarship, University of Bonn, 1988-89

Joseph E. Pogue Graduate Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984-87

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Alabama, 1983

 

 

 

 

Teaching
Experience
&
Classes

 

University of South Alabama

 

 

Professor, 2008-present
Associate Professor, 1997-2008
Assistant Professor, 1991-1997

Current Courses: Western Civilization survey; Europe since 1945; Modern Germany; Hitler & Nazi Germany; The Holocaust; World War I; World War II

 

 

University of Maryland at College Park

 

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1990-1991

Undergraduate Courses: Europe since 1789 (lectures and supervision of TAs); upper-level undergraduate historical writing seminar; 20th-Century Europe; 20th-Century Germany.

 

 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

 

Instructor, 1990

Undergraduate Course: Western Civilization since 1648.

Teaching Assistant, 1987-1988

Undergraduate Courses: Western Civilization to 1648 and the World since 1945

 

 

Books

 

The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy (edited with Alan E. Steinweis). Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Politics after Hitler: The Western Allies and the German Party System. London: Macmillan, 1995; New York: New York University Press, 1995.

 

 

 

 

Articles
&
Chapters

 

"Restoring a German Career, 1945-1950: The Ambiguity of Being Hans Globke," German Studies Review 31/2 (May 2008).

"Historians' Controversy," in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 303-304.

"German Neo-Nazism," in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 497-498.

"The Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Political Legacy of the Holocaust," in Alan E. Steinweis and Daniel E. Rogers, eds., The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy, pp. 231-247.

"Nazi Germany: New Perspectives, New Questions," (lead author, along with Alan E. Steinweis), in Alan E. Steinweis and Daniel E. Rogers, eds., The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy, pp. xi-xvii.

"Transforming the German Party System: The United States and the Origins of Political Moderation, 1945-1949," Journal of Modern History 65 (1993):512-541.

"Konrad Adenauer," in Historic World Leaders, ed. Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1994.

"Erwin Rommel," in Historic World Leaders, ed. Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1994.

"The German Resistance to Hitler," in Historic World Leaders, ed. Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1994.

 

 

 

 

Book
Reviews

 

Mario Petri, Terrorismus und Staat: Versuch einer Definition des Terrorismusphänomens und Analyse zur Existenz einer strategischen Konzeption staatlicher Gegenmaßnahmen am Beispiel der Roten Armee Fraktion in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, 2007. H-German, January 2010.

Frank Bösch, Macht und Machtverlust: Die Geschichte der CDU. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001. H-German, October 2006.

Detlef Junker, ed. The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990: A Handbook, Volume 1 (1945-1968). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; and of Detlef Junker, ed. The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990: A Handbook, Volume 2 (1968-1990). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. H-German, July 2005.

Heidemarie Uhl, ed., Zivilisationsbruch und Gedächtniskultur: Das 20. Jahrhundert in der Erinnerung des beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2003. Contemporary Austrian Studies 13 (2005): 268-271.

Ronald J. Granieri, The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003. American Historical Review 109, 3 (June 2004), pp. 992-993.

Helmut König, Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit: Der Nationalsozialismus im politischen Bewusstsein der Bundesrepublik. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003 (H-German, May 2004).

Michael L. Hughes, Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1999 (Peace and Change 26, 3 [July 2001]: 404-406)

Jeffrey Herf, Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997 (German Studies Review 22 [1999]:325)

Dan Diner, America in the Eyes of the Germans: An Essay on Anti-Americanism. Princeton, New Jersey: Marcus Wiener, 1996. (H-German, February 1998)

Omer Bartov, Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996; and of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Knopf, 1996. (National Forum 77 [1997]:44-45)

Rolf Steininger, Der Umgang mit dem Holocaust. Vienna: Böhlau, 1995, in Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka, eds., Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. 5). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1997.

Robin Neillands, The Conquest of the Reich: D-Day to V-E Day - A Soldiers' History. New York: New York University Press, 1995. (The Historian 59 [1997]:473-74)

Christoph Weisz, ed., OMGUS-Handbuch: Die amerikanische Militärregierung in Deutschland, 1945-1949. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1994; and of Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, et al., eds., American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; and of Gerd Wehner, Die Westalliierten und das Grundgesetz, 1948-1949: Die Londoner Sechsmächtekonferenz. Freiburg: Rombach, 1994. (Journal of Modern History 68 [1996]:504-507)

Reinhold Wagnleitner, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. (H-German, March 31, 1995)

Edgar Wolfrum, Französische Besatzungspolitik und deutsche Sozialdemokratie (1945-1951). Düsseldorf: Droste, 1991; and of Wilfred Loth and Robert Pich, eds., De Gaulle, Deutschland und Europa. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1991. (Journal of Modern History 67 [1995]:739-41)

Dieter Gosewinkel, Adolf Arndt: Die Wiederbegründung des Rechtsstaats aus dem Geist der Sozialdemokratie (1945-1961). Berlin: Dietz, 1991. (Journal of Modern History 66 [1994]:443-444)

André Brigot, et al., eds., Sicherheits- und Ostpolitik: Deutsch-französische Perspektiven. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1989. (German Studies Review, February 1992)

John Trumpbour, ed., The Dividing Rhine: Politics and Society in Contemporary France and Germany. Oxford: Berg, 1989. (German Studies Review, May 1991)

 

 

 

 

Scholarly Conference Presentations

 

"Testimony as Rehabilitation: Hans Globke at Nuremberg, 1945-1948," Lessons and Legacies Biennial International Holocaust Conference, Northwestern University, November 2008

"The Scholarship of Gerhard Weinberg in Post-World War II International Context," Perspectives on National Socialism, Global War, and the Holocaust: Symposium in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2008

"Myths of Revolutionary Violence in Recent Germany: The Red Army Faction's Challenge to German Liberal Democracy in the 1970s," Alabama Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Birmingham, February 2008

"'Wiedervereinigung durch Westintegration?' Ambivalence, Skepticism, and Hostility from German Social Democrats," at "Western Integration, German Unification and the Cold War - The Adenauer Era in Perspective": Conference of the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, March 2006

Panel commentator, "Diplomacy and Memory in Postwar West Germany," German Studies Association annual meeting, Milwaukee, September 2005

"The Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Politics of Describing the Holocaust," German Studies Association annual meeting, New Orleans, September 2003

"Teaching the Holocaust in the American South: Issues of Context," Lessons and Legacies Biennial International Holocaust Conference, University of Minnesota, November 2002.

"Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl, and Political Responses to the Legacy of the Holocaust," 5th Bi-Annual Holocaust Studies Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, March 2002

Panel commentator, "The United States and the German Right, 1938-1963," Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Los Angeles, April 2001

"Words, Deeds, and the Proper Memories: Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Legacy of the Holocaust." Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, November 1998

"The Internet and Publishing in German Cultural Studies," German Studies Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, September 1997

Panel commentator, "Germany and America in the 1950s," Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, June 1996

"The Hero, the Villain, the Holocaust," The University of the South Lecture Series, Sewanee, Tennessee, February 1996

Panel commentator, "The Postwar Reality of the U.S. Occupation of Germany and Austria, 1945-1948." Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June 1995

"Teaching the Holocaust in Western Civilization, World Civilization, and American History Courses," Alabama Association of Historians annual meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, February 1995

"The Cold War and the Founding of West German Television, 1950-1963," German Studies Association annual meeting, Dallas, Texas, October 1994 

"European Economic and Political Unification," Alabama Association of Historians annual meeting, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1993

"Occupation Generals and Occupation Politics: The Western Allied Armies and the Transformation of the German Party System, 1945-1949." Society for Military History annual meeting, Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 1992

"America, Britain, France, and the German Communist Parties: An Allied Approach?" Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Forth Worth, Texas, November 1991

 

 

 

 

Grants
&
Awards

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hess Faculty Seminar: "The Holocaust: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders," January 2008

Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of South Alabama, 2006

University of South Alabama Research Council Grant, $3,630, for archival research in Washington, D.C., Koblenz, Germany, and Sankt Augustin, Germany, May 2005-June 2006

Faculty Service and Development Award (sabbatical research leave), University of South Alabama, Spring Semester 1999

Fulbright Award, German Studies Seminar, Germany, June-July 1998

Fellow, Institute for the Study of Jewish Civilization and the Holocaust, Northwestern University, July 1997

University of South Alabama, College of Arts and Sciences Support and Development Award, $1,000, to match grant of $1,000 from Holocaust Educational Foundation for research and study trip to the sites of the Holocaust, June 1994

University of South Alabama Research Council Grant, $2,610, for archival research in Washington, D.C., Frankfurt, Germany, and Koblenz, Germany, July-August 1993

Holocaust Educational Foundation, $1,000, Course Development Grant, March 1993

 

 

 

 

Professional
Service
&
Memberships

 

Chair, University of South Alabama, College of Arts & Sciences Sabbatical Committee, 2009

Chair, University of South Alabama, College of Arts & Sciences Tenure Committee, 2009; Member, University of South Alabama, College of Arts & Sciences Promotion Committee, 2009

Grader, Advanced Placement European History Exam, Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 2008

Member, University of South Alabama, College of Arts & Sciences, Graduate Academic Conduct Standards Committee and Graduate Final Grade Grievance Committee, 2007-2008

Chair, University of South Alabama, Department of History Search Committee, Latin American history, 2007-2008

Grader, Advanced Placement European History Exam, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 2006

Member, University of South Alabama, Department of History Search Committee, U.S. history, 2005-2006

Member, University of South Alabama, College of Arts & Sciences Summer Professional Development Committee, 2005-2006

Chair, University of South Alabama, College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Awards Committee, 2004-2005

Chair, University of South Alabama, Department of History Search Committee, Russian history, 2004-2005

Chair, John Snell Prize Committee, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association, 2003-2004

University of South Alabama liaison, Atlantic Council of the United States, 2003-

Faculty Senate, University of South Alabama, 1999-2002

Senate Chair: 2000-2002
Senate Vice-Chair: 1999-2000

Member, Program Committee, Lessons and Legacies Biennial International Conference on the Holocaust, 2001-2002 (University of Minnesota, November 2002)

Chair, University of South Alabama, Department of History Search Committee, Asian history, 2001-2002

Member, University of South Alabama Search Committee, Vice-President for Development and Alumni Affairs, 2002

Member, University of South Alabama Budget Council, 2000-2003

Member, University of South Alabama Academic Affairs Policy Committee, 1999-2003

Member, University of South Alabama, Department of History Search Committee, Asian history, 1999-2000

Member, University of South Alabama, Department of History Search Committee, Department chair, 1997-1998

Initiator and co-editor of H-German, a daily scholarly electronic forum and Web site for over 1,600 professional historians of Germany in 30 countries, April 1994-December 1998

Alabama Association of Historians -- Secretary-Treasurer, February 1994-February 1997

 

 

 

 

Languages

 

German (fluent); French (good reading and intermediate speaking ability); Italian (intermediate)

 

 


 

Dr. Daniel E. Rogers - University of South Alabama - History Department - HUMB 344 - Mobile, AL 36688-0002 / (251) 460-6210
Last date changed: January 8, 2010
URL: http://www.southalabama.edu/history/faculty/rogers/cv.html