EDUCATION
Ph.D, Modern European History, SUNY-Binghamton, 2001
MA, Modern European History, Simon Fraser University, 1995
BA, History and Russian, McGill University, 1993
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Full Professor 2016 to present
Associate Professor with tenure, 2007 to 2016
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carleton University, 2001 to 2007
PROFESSIONAL HONOURS and FELLOWSHIPS
Department of Canadian Heritage Digital Citizen Contribution Program Fellowship 2021
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ottawa Fellowship 2021
Social Science Research Council (US) Social Data Initiative Research Fellowship 2020
Social Science Humanities Research Council Insight Grant, “Populist Publics" 2019
Visiting Professorship, Fondation Maison de Sciences de L'Homme Paris 2018
Social Science Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant 2017-19
Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars 2016 to present
Carleton University, Faculty of Social Science Research Grant 2016-17
Carleton University Research Achievement Award 2015-2016
Social Science Humanities Research Council Insight Grant 2013-18
Social Science Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant 2011-2013
Carleton University, Faculty of Social Science Research Grant 2008-09
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship (declined) 2006
Social Science Humanities Research Council Standard Grant 2002-06
Carleton University Student Association Award for Excellence in Teaching 2005
Grinspoon Foundation Fellowship. United States Memorial Holocaust Museum 2002 Berlin Program Postdoctoral Fellowship 2001-02
Fritz Stern Prize for Best North American Dissertation in German History, finalist 2001
AHA Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant 2000
German Historical Institute Dissertation Fellowship 1998
SUNY University Research Foundation Fellowship 1997-99
SUNY Dissertation Fellowship1997-99
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) “Sur Place” Grant 1995
INVITED TALKS
Panelist, Roundtable, "Who Is Allowed to Research Whose History?" ZZF Potsdam Summer Seminar Series
Keynote, Learning from Germans and from Canadians, J.B. McLachlan Lecture, Cape Breton University
Keynote, Imagining Trans*gression, German Studies Lecture Series, Stanford University
Panelist, Roundtable, Memory Politics in Germany and Poland, Beyond Camps and Forced Labour international Conference, Wiener Library, London UK
Panelist and Organizer of Roundtable, Triangular Hate: Transatlantic Far-Right Connections Between Germany-US-Canada, Carleton University
Keynote, Social Media and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust, Holocaust Awareness Week, Oregon State University
Keynote, Queer Paths into Queer Libraries or Performing Kinship in Dangerous Times, G19 Rethinking Knowledge Regimes. Swedish Conference for Gender Studies, Gothenburg Sweden
Keynote, Queering 1968: Erotic Photography and the Visual History of the Sexual Revolution. Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art Paris.
Keynote, The Nazi Policy Against Homosexuals: Policing Behavior in the People’s Community (Volksgemeinschaft). Center for Austrian Study University of Minnesota.
Keynote, Pink Triangle Persecution: In History and Memory. Metropolitan State University, February 19, 2018.
Keynote, The State of Play in Germany. Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities Symposium on “Pink Perils: Anti-Gay Politics in 20th Century Europe” Yale University
Panelist, Roundtable. The Digital Holocaust. Lessons and Legacies. The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age at Claremont McKenna College.
Keynote, Love/Sex/War. Another History of 20th Century Europe, Sciences Po Centre d’Histoire, Paris.
Keynote, Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS), University of London.
Keynote, Talking Eyes Lecture Series, Humboldt University Berlin and C/O Berlin Gallery
Keynote, The Queer 50s, University of London, Birkbeck
Connaught Distinguished Lecture, Munk Centre for Global Studies, University of Toronto
Keynote, Institut für Soziologie, Ludwigs-Maximilians Universität München
Panelist, Roundtable, Transatlantic Perspectives on Gay Marriage, Goethe Institut Boston
Photomontage Between the Wars, 1918-1930, Carleton University Art Gallery
Leslie Hossack’s “Fallout” Vernissage, Festival X, Ottawa
Keynote, The Optics of Desire. University of Iowa European Studies Speaker Series
Invited Lecturer, The Optics of Desire. Center for Research in Women and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Invited Lecturer, The Optics of Desire. Wayne State University
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto
Panelist, Roundtable. PrideFest America, Philadelphia PA
Guest Lectures on the Persecution of Homosexuals, sponsored by the USHMM: University of Western Ontario; Appalachia State University; University of Arizona; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art.
MEDIA
Interview, Contesting Memory Culture, Review of Democracy, Central European University, July 23, 2021
Project, "The Catechism Debate,” New Fascism Syllabus (May 25- June 21, 2021)
Project, The German Studies Collaboratory. An Interdisciplinary Experiment to Transform German Studies
Article, “Die queere Bewegung in Deutschland – eine vielstimmige Bewegung” Der Tagesspiegel April 15, 2021
Article, "Trump Lost but Racism is Alive and Well in the U.S" The Conversation, November 10, 2020
Article, "Folk Devils and Fear" The Conversation, October 25, 2020
Article, “Eine queer Institution, die Transfeindlichkeit unterstürtzt, ist nichts wert” Der Tagesspiegel March 2, 2020
Article, “Can Remembering Past Atrocities Prevent Future Ones?” Washington Post, December 27, 2019
Article, “Die neue Kampf gegen die Gender Studies” Geschichte der Gegenwart March 6, 2019
Article, “The New War on Gender Studies” The Conversation, January 6, 2019 reprinted in The National Post, January 7, 2019
Article, "Why Social Media Sites Shouldn't Censor Erotic Images" Washington Post December 14, 2018
CBC Ottawa Morning, "New Fascism Syllabus" February 15, 2017.
Article, "Make No Mistake. White Supremacists Live Among Us" Ottawa Citizen, August 18, 2017
Op/Ed, “Don’t Rush to Shut Down Hate on the Web,” The Citizen, March 24, 2012.
Article, “It Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Little Secret. A Feminist Makes the Case for Porn,” The Good Men Project, July 21, 2011. Reposted to Role/Reboot. Making Sense of Men and Women.
Interview, “Reel Sex Film Fest Launches at Carleton,” Xtra, March 3, 2011.
Interview, “Universities Woo Students with Queer Studies,” Xtra, January 7, 2011.
Op/Ed, “Why Canada Should Protect Gender Identity,” Globe and Mail, December 1, 2010.
Interview for documentary on Tony Fouhse’s User, Ben Walker Productions.
Interview, “Got That Sexual Feeling” The Charlatan, December 5, 2009.
Interview, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” The Charlatan, November 11, 2009.
Interview, “German Civil Service Chock Full of Spies” Macleans, July 23, 2009.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES and SERVICE
Workshops and Conferences Organized:
Lessons and Legacies, the Holocaust Education Foundation, November 8-10 2020.
The Ethics of Seeing: 20th Century German Documentary Photography Reconsidered, German Historical Institute, London UK, May 23-35, 2013 (together with Paul Betts, Oxford and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Berkeley).
Primary Coordinator and Participant, “Gender and the Holocaust” Summer Workshop, United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, June 14-25, 2004.
Manuscript Reviews for Scholarly Presses:
Palgrave Macmillan
Hayworth Press
Berghahn Press
University of Michigan Press
Oxford University Press, Canada
Berghahn Books
Manuscript Reviews for Scholarly Journals:
Journal of Modern History; Journal of Family History
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Gender and History
Journal of Women’s History
Human Organization
Grant and Prize Committees:
SSHRC Standard Grant Application, January 2011
Canadian Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, article prize committee 2010
Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, book prize committee 2008
SSHRC Standard Grant Application, Spring 2006
Academic Committees and Advisory Boards:
Series Editor, History of Modern Germany book series, Bloomsbury, 2019 -
Advisory Committee, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free University of Berlin, 2021 -
Editorial Board, German History, German Politics and Society, 2022 -
Advisory Board, Transnational Queer Histories book series, de Gruyter, 2022 -
Advisory Board, Schwules Museum* Berlin, 2021 -
Co-Chair, GSA Interdisciplinary Committee, 2014-2017 Graduate Director, Department of History, 2011-2014
Steering Committee, Task Force for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research (ITF), 2012-13 Update Equity Committee CUASA to be 2010-2013 Representative for History Dept to be 2010-2013
Steering Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians, 2011-2014
H-Net Hist-Sex Listserv on the History of Sexuality, 2004- present.
Steering Committee, Carleton University Faculty Association (CUASA), 2010- present.
Chair, Equity Committee, CUASA, 2010- present.
Representative for the History Department, Carleton University Faculty Association (CUASA), 2002-2005; 2010-present.
Representative for the History Department, Carleton University Centre for European Studies Management Committee, 2001- present.
Undergraduate Committee, Library Committee, Graduate Committee, Sexuality Studies Committee.