Education:

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, History, 1996

M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, History, 1990

B.A., Kent State University, Individualized Major, 1987

Fields:

Holocaust, Modern Europe, Modern Jewish, Modern German

Research Interests:

gender and the Holocaust, Jewish music, film, and theater, representations of the ‘other’ in the performing arts, progressive Jewish voices and the Arab-Israeli conflict

Awards and Fellowships:

Grant from the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, 2002

Melzter Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996-1997

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Fellowship, 1993

Leo Baeck Institute Fellowship, 1993

Fulbright Scholarship, 1988-198

Publications:

History of the Holocaust (Routledge, forthcoming)

Performing Difference:  Representations of the Other in the Performing Arts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)

Rainbow Jews:  Gay and Jewish Identity in the Performing Arts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)

The Literary, Cultural, and Historical Significance of the Biblical Stage Play, The Eternal Road (Mellen, 2003)

Speaking the Unspeakable:  Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and Holocaust Survivor Memory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)

The Lion and the Star:  Gentile-Jewish Relations in Three Hessian Communities, 1919-1945 (University Press of Kentucky, 1998)

Memberships:

Association of Holocaust Organizations

Association of Jewish Studies