Cultural historian of modern Europe, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Allied faculty, UMass Public History
Revolutionary era, World Wars, Nazism, antisemitism.
Book history, German literature, material culture, historic preservation.
Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
http://tiny.cc/iv43vz• Past posts
-Chair of Board, Massachusetts Center for the Book
-Treasurer, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing
-Chair, Amherst Historical Commission
-Amherst Select Board
Recent work: "Periodicals and Periodicity," Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book, ed. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, 2nd ed. 2019:
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Companion+to+the+History+of+the+Book%2C+2+Volume+Set%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119018179Recent work: "'The Rot Must Be Stopped Even at the Cost of Some Public Discussion': Anti-Semitism in the Polish Forces as a Crisis of Policy and Public Information," in Allied Communication to the Public DUring the Second World War, ed. Simon Eliot:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/allied-communication-to-the-public-during-the-second-world-war-9781350105133/Fond of: old books, manuscripts, ex libris, engravings, maps, philately, numismatics, porcelain, pewter, silver, chairs:
Fond of: dogs (Great Pyrenees, German Shepherd, Malinois); cats if they are decent:
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