Vitae

Education

American University , Ph.D. European History, 1999

Washington , DC M.A. European History, 1993

Hamilton College , B.A. History and German, 1987

Clinton , NY

Harvard University Ukrainian Studies Program

Ukrainian Research Institute Summer 1994

Humboldt University German Studies Program

Berlin , Germany Summer 1992

University of Vienna German and Austro-Hungarian History

Vienna , Austria 1985-1986

Academic Awards/Prizes/Grants

The Freilich Foundation, Humanities Research Centre,

Australian National University , Canberra , Australia

Conference Fellowship July 2003

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

Postdoctoral Fellowship June – October 1999

Summer Research Workshop Grant “The Holocaust in Ukraine ” July 1999

German Historical Institute, Washington DC

Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1997

American University, Washington DC

College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Grant, 1996-1997

History Department, Teaching Fellowship, 1993-1996

Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute

Tuition Award, Ukrainian Studies Program, 1994

Phi Alpha Theta International History Honors Society

National Paper Prize and Regional First Prize for “Ukrainian Nationalists in the Village,” 1995

Teaching Experience

Georgetown University Assistant Professor (Adjunct Faculty): Seminar (graduate and undergraduate) A History of the Holocaust

American University Assistant Professor (Adjunct Faculty): European History (1400-1800)

Instructor: ‘Writing History: A Workshop for Undergraduate Students”

Teaching Assistant: “Renaissance and Revolutions, 1400-1800,” “The West in Crisis, 1900-1945,” “ Russia Past and Present,” “Nazi Germany .”

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Faculty Seminar, "Using Primary Sources to Teach the Holocaust," co-taught with Peter Longerich June 7-18, 2004

Towson University Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Courses in Modern Europe, Modern Germany , Modern Russia and the Soviet Union , Introduction to Public History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Vassar College NEH Sponsored Workshop, Teaching Holocaust History with Primary Sources, April 2005

Publications

Book:

Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine ( Chapel Hill : University ofNorth Carolina Press, 2005)

Journal Articles:

“A New Ordering of Space and Race: Nazi Volksdeutsche Experiments in Zhytomyr, Ukraine , 1941-1944 German Studies Review vol xxv, May 2002, pp. 227-254.

"'Anticipatory Obedience ' and the Nazi Implementation of the Holocaust in theUkraine: A Case Study of Central and Peripheral Forces in Zhytomyr, 1941-1944,"Holocaust and Genocide Studies vol xvii, Spring 2002, pp. 1-21.

Selected Book Chapters:

The ‘reibungslose' Holocaust? The German Military and Civilian Implementation of the ‘Final Solution' in Ukraine , 1941-1944,” in Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust , eds. Gerald Feldman and Wolfgang Seibel (Berghahn, 2004).

“Facilitating Genocide: Nazi Ghettoization Practices in Occupied Ukraine , 1941-1944,” in Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust , ed. E. Sterling ( SyracuseUniversity Press, 2005).

Contributing Author/Encyclopedia Entries:

Introductory Essays, “Concentration Camps,” “Killing Centers,” in In Pursuit of Justice: Examining the Evidence of the Holocaust (Washington DC: USHMM, 1997).Thirty Entries, “A History of the Holocaust,” CD-ROM, ( Washington DC : USHMM, 1999).

Several Entries (in process) for the new edition of Encylopedia Judaica and Oxford Encyclopedia of Genocide

Selected Book Reviews:

The Third Reich and Ukraine W. Kosyk (New York: Peter Lang, 1993); Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal 3/4 (1996).

Dilemmas of Independence : Ukraine After Totalitarianism Alexander Motyl (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993); Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal 3/4 (1996).

Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization Elizabeth Harvey (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004) Holocaust and Genocide Studies Spring 2005,

Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule Karel Berkhoff (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2004) German Studies Review, May 2005.

Books in Progress

“The Shoah in Ukraine : History, Testimony and Memorialization” co-editor with Ray Brandon, Introduction Omer Bartov. Indiana University Press, under review

“Clues to an Unwritten End: Deciphering the Holocaust Diary of Samek Golfard”

“Nazi Perpetrators, East German War Crimes Trials and the Stasi”

Lectures/Papers Presented and Seminars Led

“Ukrainian Nationalists in the Village: The 'Pokhidny Hrupy' and the German Invasion of Ukraine , 1941,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Georgetown University , April 1995.

“How Far East Does Europe Go?” American University , March 1995

“ Ukraine During the Second World War,” George Washington University , April 1996

“Holocaust Research and Holocaust Studies in the 21 st Century, “ December 1999

“The Center and the Periphery” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

“Der ‘reibungslose' Holocaust? The Nazi Implementation of the Final Solution in Ukraine , 1941-44,“ Universitaet Konstanz , Germany , September 2000

“The Holocaust Narrative: Appraising the Value of Regional Approaches,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Boston 2001

“Extraordinary Killers: The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust” University of Maryland , Baltimore County , April 2001

"Reconstruction of Jewish Life After the Holocaust: Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives," Panel Organizer and Chair, Loyola College , Baltimore MD , April 2001

"Nazi Ghettoization Practices in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust," German Studies Association Conference, October 2001

"Der 'reibungslose' Holocaust? The Nazi Implementation of the Final Solution in Ukraine , 1941-1944," University of Vermont , Burlington , June 2001

“Anticipatory Obedience” or “Working Towards the Fuehrer”? Holocaust Perpetrators in Ukraine, University of California , Berkeley , April 11 2002, Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and the Institute of Slavic , East European and Eurasian Studies

"Nazi Colonial Experiments in Ukraine and the Generalplan Ost," Freie Universitaet Berlin , Germany June 6-9, 2002

"German Colonialism and Genocide in Africa and Ukraine ," University of Sydney , Australia , July 20, 2003

"German Colonialism and Genocide in Africa and Ukraine : A Comparative View From Below," Yale University , Genocide Studies Seminar, October 23, 2003. and Georgetown University , German Studies Seminar with Roger Chickering, April 2004.

“Nazi Germanization Campaigns and the Holocaust in Ukraine ,” presented on panel,"Patrolling Borders, Ascribing Identities: Population Classification in Word War II Europe," Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, January 2004.

“Hitler's Garden of Eden: German Colonialism and the Holocaust in Ukraine , 1941-1944,” presented at " Gray Zones : Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath," Claremont McKenna College , Inaugural Conference of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights, February 5-8 2004.

“The Future of Holocaust and Comparative Genocide Studies” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, Roundtable Discussant, European Network of Genocide Studies Scholars, January 2005.

“German Perpetrators of Genocide in Germany and Africa,” Millersville University, Millersville PA, April 2005

Upcoming:

Nazi Scholars as Activists in Germanizing Ukraine , German Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee WI , September 2005

“The Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, Alfred Lerner Fellows, NY, NY , January 2006

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Towson University , August 2004-

International Advisory Board, Journal of Genocide Research (Routledge), 2005-

Director, Visiting Scholars Program, July 2000- April 2004

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Adjunct Faculty Member

Georgetown University , Center for German and Contemporary European Studies

American University , Department of History

Project Coordinator (1996-1998)

Oral History Collection of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), supported by the

Center for the Study of Intelligence and Georgetown University

Historical Consultant (1994-1997)

Exhibitions and Publications Department, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

“Liberation, 1945” Exhibit, "Days of Remembrance"

Researcher (1999)

Canadian Department of Justice, War Crimes Division

Editor, Translator (1992)

U.S. National Archives, Guides to the Captured German World War II Documents

Peer Reviewer

Smithsonian , Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary History,

Journal of Colonial Studies

McGraw Hill, College Textbooks Division (Modern German History), Simon and

Schuster.

Committee Work

Chair, German Studies Association Article Prize Committee, 2001-2002

National Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2002-2004

Program Committee, Lessons and Legacies Conference, Brown University , 2004

Paul H. Gantt Papers from the Nuremberg Trials, Towson Archives, Towson University, Exhibition Development, Website Design, 2004-

Search and Selection of Faculty (Early Modern History), History Department, Towson University; Herb Andrews Lecture Committee