Alan E. Steinweis

Alan E. Stein Weis ( born January 13, 1957 in Brooklyn ) is an American historian and professor at the University of Vermont.

Life

Steinweis in 1988 his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Gerhard L. Weinberg. As a PhD student Steinweis was a fellow at the University of Bonn and a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin. He was repeatedly served as a visiting professor at American universities except, as in 2000. At Ben- Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, 2002 at the University of Hannover and 2003 as a Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Heidelberg From 1993 to 2008 he worked at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln ( Nebraska), most recently as Professor Hyman Rosenberg. Since 2009 he is Professor of History and Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont and director of the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies.

In the summer semester 2011, he was invited for a research semester at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main. Steinweis currently working on an overall view of the history of the Nazi dictatorship for Cambridge University Press under the title "The People's Dictatorship: A History of Nazi Germany".

Writings

• Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1993, ISBN 0-8078-2104-7.
• Edited by Daniel E. Rogers: The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003, ISBN 0-8032-4299-9.
• Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2006, ISBN 0 - 674-02205 -X.
• Edited by Philipp Gassert: Coping with the Nazi Past: West German debates on Nazism and generational conflict, 1955-1975. Berghahn, New York 2006, ISBN 1-8454-5086-8.
• Kristallnacht 1938, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03623-9. ; German: Kristallnacht 1938: a German pogrom. Translated by Karin Schuler. Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-010774-4.