Check out this interview Scott Harrison and I did with Jenna Pittman about our recently-published Socialist Subjectivities volume https://newbooksnetwork.com/socialist-subjectivities

Snippet: Living in East Berlin in 1973 it would have been nearly impossible not to encounter the slogan ‘anti-imperialist solidarity, peace, and friendship.’[1] It shouted its way off the pages of state newspapers, was plastered on city buildings, and served as a talking point in official speeches. And yet, we are often skeptical of assigning... Continue Reading →

I'm excited to announce the publication of Socialist Subjectivities: Queering East Germany under Honecker with University of Michigan Press, co-edited with Scott Harrison and Jeff Hayton. It is available open access here! Socialist Subjectivities works within the logics of queer time to reanimate East German subjectivities in the 1970s and 1980s beyond the narrative of the... Continue Reading →

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/788436/summary

I currently work in the museum world in Washington, DC. Having trained as a historian of modern German history, I also maintain an active research agenda. My research interests include German history in transnational perspective; international youth culture in the long-1960s; and the antecedents to and long-term impacts of Nazism globally. I recently co-edited a... Continue Reading →

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