Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Rutgers University 1969
  • M.A., Columbia University 1964
  • B.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1962
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1994 - 2012
  • Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007 - 2012
  • Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2005
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1988 - 1994
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUL 21, 2021

    The Washington Post

    Gen. Milley, Mr. Trump and lessons from the past

  • JUL 21, 2021

    The Noiser

    Podcast Real Dictators: Hitler, parts 1-4.

  • JUN 24, 2020

    History News Network

    “No more Business as Usual

  • SEP 15, 2019

    History News Network

    “Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.”

  • MAR 17, 2016

    The News & Observer

    Claudia Koonz: When it comes to settling migrants, the Mideast must do it

  • OCT 2, 2015

    The Cleveland Plain Dealer

    Claudia Koonz: Serbia's civil sector sets the standard for humane treatment of refugees

  • OCT 2, 2015

    the Cleveland Plain Dealer

    Serbia's Humane Treatment of Refugees
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fellows. American Academy in Berlin. 2006
  • Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2005
  • ACLS Fellows (ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships). American Council of Learned Societies. 1993
  • Fellow. National Humanities Center. 1993
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Europe (Continent) 
    • Germany (Country) 

  • Research

    • Germany (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Serbia (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • What happens to Their Children? Policy and Research Related to the Children of Parents in Detention Facilities awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2012
  • Gender and Ethnic Conflict awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2005
  • Gender, Ethnicity and Community Among Refugess in Croatian Camps awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1995 - 1996
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Koonz, C. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the family and Nazi politics. Vol. 24, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203095447.
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    • Koonz, Professor of History Claudia, and Claudia Koonz. The Nazi Conscience. Harvard University Press, 2003.
    • Koonz, Claudia. Mütter im Vaterland Frauen im Dritten Reich, 1994.
    • Ed, Renate Bridenthal. Becoming Visible Women in European History, 1987.
    • Bridenthal, Renate, and Claudia Koonz. Becoming Visible Women in European History. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

  • Academic Articles

    • Koonz, Claudia. “The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law. By Devin O. Pendas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xx+340. $65.00.” The Journal of Modern History 80, no. 2 (June 2008): 467–70. https://doi.org/10.1086/591597.
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    • Claudia Koonz, D. A. “Unmasking Multiculturalism: Muslim Memoirs Probe the Limits of Tolerance.” Berlin Journal 12, no. spring, 2006 (March 2006): 5–8.
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    • Koonz, C. “Women and the Nazi east: Agents and witnesses of Germanization.” Social History 30, no. 3 (2005): 375–77.
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    • Claudia Koonz, M. K. “More Masculine Men. More Feminine Women. Gender and Race in Nazi Popular Culture.” Idea (Japanese Language), 2003.
    • KOONZ, C. “SPEER,ALBERT - HIS BATTLE WITH TRUTH - SERENY,G.” New York Times Book Review, 1995, 11–12.
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    • KOONZ, C. “TRIED FOR THEIR CRIMES + KOONZ REVIEW OF SERENY - REPLY.” New York Times Book Review, 1995, 31–31.
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    • KOONZ, C. “WHEN WINTER COMES.” Nation 258, no. 1 (January 3, 1994): 2–2.
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    • KOONZ, C. “GOEBBELS - REUTH,RG.” New York Times Book Review, 1994, 14–14.
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    • KOONZ, C. “A HISTORY OF FOREIGN-LABOR IN GERMANY, 1880-1980 - SEASONAL WORKERS FORCED LABORERS GUEST WORKERS - HERBERT,U.” International Labor and Working Class History, no. 43 (1993): 127–29.
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    • Koonz, Claudia. “Ethical Dilemmas and Nazi Eugenics: Single-Issue Dissent in Religious Contexts.” The Journal of Modern History 64 (December 1992): S8–31. https://doi.org/10.1086/244425.
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    • KOONZ, C. “RESPONSE TO BOCK,GISELA, REVIEW OF MOTHERS-IN-THE-FATHERLAND.” Geschichte Und Gesellschaft 18, no. 3 (January 1, 1992): 394–99.
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    • KOONZ, C. “WOMEN OF THE KLAN - RACISM AND GENDER IN THE 1920S - BLEE,KM.” New York Times Book Review, 1992, 22–22.
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    • Koonz, Claudia. “Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945.Paul Weindling.” American Journal of Sociology 97, no. 3 (November 1991): 899–901. https://doi.org/10.1086/229851.
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    • Koonz, Claudia, and Andreas Lixl-Purcell. “Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies since 1933.” The American Historical Review 96, no. 2 (April 1991): 544–544. https://doi.org/10.2307/2163326.
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    • Chartier, Renée. “Claudia Koonz, Les Mères-Patrie du IIIe Reich, les femmes et le nazisme.” Recherches Féministes 3, no. 1 (1990): 140–140. https://doi.org/10.7202/057593ar.
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    • KOONZ, C. “FROM HITLER TO HEIMAT - THE RETURN OF HISTORY AS FILM - KAES,A.” New York Times Book Review, 1990, 22–22.
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    • KOONZ, C. “FASCISM IN POPULAR MEMORY - THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE OF THE TURIN WORKING-CLASS - PASSERINI,L.” International Labor and Working Class History, no. 36 (1989): 131–34.
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    • Koonz, C. “Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism. Marburg, 1880-1935. By Rudy Koshar (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xviii plus 395 pp. $35.00).” Journal of Social History 21, no. 4 (June 1, 1988): 821–24. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/21.4.821.
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    • Koonz, C. “At the Very Least She Pays the Rent. Women and German Industrialization, 1871-1914. By Barbara Franzoi. (Westport, Connecticut, London, England: Greenwood, 1985. xi plus 206 pp. $29.95).” Journal of Social History 20, no. 2 (December 1, 1986): 415–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/20.2.415.
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    • Koonz, Claudia. “Das ,zweite' Geschlecht im ,Dritten Reich'.” Feministische Studien 5, no. 2 (November 1, 1986): 14–33. https://doi.org/10.1515/fs-1986-0204.
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    • KOONZ, C. “HIDDEN FROM HISTORY - REDISCOVERING WOMEN IN HISTORY FROM 17TH CENTURY TO PRESENT - ROWBOTHAM,S.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, no. 1 (January 1, 1978): 86–88.
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    • Koonz, Claudia. “Conflicting Allegiances: Political Ideology and Women Legislators in Weimar Germany.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1, no. 3, Part 1 (April 1976): 663–83. https://doi.org/10.1086/493248.
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    • KOONZ, C. “NAZI WOMEN BEFORE 1933 - REBELS AGAINST EMANCIPATION.” Social Science Quarterly 56, no. 4 (January 1, 1976): 553–83.
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    • Koonz, Claudia. “Moral Exemplars in the Service of Evil. Hitler Normalizes National Socialism 1923-1933,” n.d.

  • Book Sections

    • Koonz, C. “Women between God and Führer.” In The Rise Of The Nazi Regime: Historical Reassessments, edited by Charles Maier, Stanley Hoffmann, and Andrew Gould, 79–87. routledge, 2019.
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    • Koonz, Claudia. “Consensus Formation, Race, and Gender in Histories of National Socialist Germany.” In Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives, edited by Karen Petrone and Jie Hyun Lim. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010.
    • Koonz, Claudia. “'Hijāb’ A Word That Moves.” In Words In Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon, edited by Carol N. Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009.
    • Koonz, C. A. “A tributary and a mainstream: Gender, public memory, and the historiography of Nazi Germany.” In Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography, 147–68, 2007.
    • Koonz, Claudia. “Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps and Public Controversy.” In Commemorations:  The Politics of National Memory, 258–81. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993.
    • Koonz, Claudia. “Eugenics, Gender and Ethics in Nazi Germany: The Debate about Involuntary Sterilization 1933-1936.” In Reevaluating the Third Reich, edited by Jane Caplan and thomas Childers, 66–85. New York, N.Y.: Holmes and Meier, 1993.
    • Koonz, Claudia. “Genocide and Eugenics: The Language of Power.” In Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World., edited by Peter Hayes,. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1991.
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    • Koonz, Claudia. “Eugenische Revolution und Nationalsozialistische Macht: Katholische und Evangelische Reaktionen.” In Frauen Und Faschismus in Europa : Der Faschistische Körper, edited by Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz and Gerda Stutchlik, 6:156–71. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1987.

  • Digital Publications

    • Koonz, Claudia. “Donald Trump Must Face Federal Charges,” July 19, 2022.
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• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Genocide and the Moral Order in a Globalized World,. November 9, 2010  2010
  • Kopftuch and Leitkultur: Ethnic Panic in the Federal Republic after 9/11/01.. October 7, 2010  2010
  • What can Representations of the hijab in Mass-Market Print and Visual Culture tell us about Germanness?. November 19, 2009  2009
  • Nazi Ethics and Ideology. October 9, 2009  2009
  • The Muslim Headscarf in Europe: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom?. March 11, 2009  2009
  • The Muslim Headscarf: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom?. November 26, 2008  2008
  • What if anything Can Women's History & the History of Sexuality tell us about Genocide?. June 13, 2008  2008
  • Making Racism Respectable in the Third Reich. April 17, 2008  2008
  • The Right to Cover: The Muslim Headscarf Wars in Britain, France and Germany.. April 16, 2008  2008
  • Making Racism Respectable. March 27, 2008  2008
  • How Racism Became Respectable. March 4, 2008  2008
  • European Law and Muslim Customs. March 3, 2008  2008
  • Making Racism Respectable. February 26, 2008  2008
  • Covering the Muslim Headscarf in European Law. January 16, 2008  2008
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • DukeEngage Program Leader . Addressing human rights and the global refugee crisis. May 2017 - July 2017  2017
  • Instructor. DukeEngage in Serbia. SIT Study Abroad. 2014  2014
  • Unknown. developed Duke Engage Internships for 2011 in Western China and Sarajevo, Bosnia. July 1, 2010  2010

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