Curriculum vitae Dolores L. AUGUSTINE Department of History St

Curriculum vitae
Dolores L. AUGUSTINE
Department of History
St. John´s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
e-mail: [email protected]
Education B.S. in Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1976. M.A. and Dr.phil. in history,
Freie Universität Berlin, 1984 and 1991 (Thesis advisor: Prof. Hartmut Kaelble). Dissertation:
“Die wilhelminische Wirtschaftselite: Sozialverhalten, soziales Selbstbewußtsein und Familie.”
Academic positions Visiting instructor, Sweet Briar College (Virginia), 1989-90. Instructor to
Full Professor (tenured in 1995), St. John's University, New York, 1990 to present.
Administrative work Chair of the Department of History, 1998-2001 (one term). Graduate
Director, 2010-2011.
Grants Stipendium nach dem Nachwuchsförderungsgesetz, 1985-86.
IREX, 1986. Berlin Airlift Foundation, 1988-89. Summer research grant, St. John's University,
1992. DAAD, 1994. National Science Foundation grant, 1997-99 (sabbatical grant). NEH
summer grant, 1998. American Philosophical Society summer grant, 2000. DAAD, 2000.
Leibniz summer grant for visit to Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, 2011. DAAD,
2013.
Professional Activities
-Advisory Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat), Center for Contemporary Historical Research
(Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung), Potsdam, Germany, named in 2014.
-German Studies Association, organizing committee for annual conference, 2012 and 2013.
-German Studies Review, 2001-2003 article prize committee.
Publications
Books
Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 (Cambridge:
M.I.T. Press, 2007).
Patricians and Parvenus: Wealth and High Society in Wilhelmine Germany (Oxford and
Providence: Berg Publishers, 1994).
Articles
1.
“Innovation and Ideology: Werner Hartmann and the Failure of the East German
Electronics Industry,” The East German Economy, 1945-2010: Falling Behind or
Catching Up? (New York and Cambrige, U.K.: Cambridge University Press and
Washington, D.C.: the German Historical Institute, 2013), pp. 95-110.
2. “Chapter 4: Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two
Germanies,” in The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-
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1965, ed. Dick van Lente (New York and Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012),
pp. 79-116.
3. Co-authored with Dick van Lente: “Chapter 9: Conclusion: One World, Two Worlds,
Many Worlds?,” in The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 19451965, ed. Dick van Lente (New York and Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012),
pp. 233-247. (Also provided cover illustration, illustrations AI.2, p. 251, AI.11, p. 258,
AI.13, p. 160 and Figures AII. 3 and AII. 4, p. 262)
4. “Zeit der Fachleute. Motivation und Selbstbild industrieller Forschungsdirektoren in der
DDR bis 1971, ” in Ingenieure in der technokratischen Hochmoderne, eds. Uwe
Fraunholz and Sylvia Wölfel (Münster, New York, Munich and Berlin: Waxmann,
2012), pp. 225-240.
5. “Bankiers,” in Enzyklpädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, ed. Dan Diner (Stuttgart
and Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2011), pp. 251-255.
6. “The Power Question in GDR History,” German Studies Review XXXIV/3 (October
2011), pp. 633-652.
7. “Bismarck, Otto Von, in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi
(Detroit: Gale, 2010), pp. 137-140.
8.
“Wunderwaffen of a Different Kind: Nazi Scientists in East German Industrial
Research,” German Studies Review XXIX/3 (October 2006), pp. 581-588.
9. “Walter Ulbricht,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators, ed. Frank Coppa (New York:
Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 320-322.
10. “ ‘Es sind zwei Welten Gewesen’: Eine Informatikerin in der DDR und in der
Bundesrepublik,” in Rüdiger Hohls, Iris Schröder und Hannes Siegrist
(eds.): Europa und die Europäer. Quellen und Essays zur modernen europäischen
Geschichte. Festschrift für Hartmut Kaelble zum 65. Geburtstag (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2005, pp. 115-120.
11. “The Impact of Two Reunification-Era Debates on the East German Sense of Identity,”
German Studies Review 27 (Fall 2004), pp. 563-578.
12. “Werner Hartmann und der Aufbau der Mikroelektronikindustrie in der DDR,”
Dresdener Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften 28 (2003), pp. 3-32.
13. “Patricians, Parvenus, and Professionals: The Recruitment and Reproduction of
Economic Elites in Imperial Germany,” in Franz Bosbach, Keith Robbins and Karina
Urbach, eds., Geburt oder Leistung? Elitenbildung im deutsch-britischen Vergleich. Birth
or Talent? The Formation of Elites in British-German Comparison, Prince Albert Studies,
vol. 21 (Munich: K.G. Saur Verlag, 2003), pp. 159-180.
14. “Berufliches Selbstbild, Arbeitshabitus und Mentalitätsstrukturen von Software-Experten
der DDR,” in Peter Hübner, ed., Eliten im Sozialismus. Studien zur Sozialgeschichte der
DDR (Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau-Verlag, 1999), pp. 405-433.
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15. “The Socialist ‘Silicon Ceiling’: East German Women in Computer Science,” in 1999
International Symposium on Technology and Society. Women and Technology:
Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives. Proceedings (IEEE: Piscataway, NJ,
1999), pp.347-355.
16. “Frustrated Technocrats: Engineers in the Ulbricht Era,” in Kristie Macrakis and Dieter
Hoffmann, eds., Science under Socialism. East Germany in Comparative Perspective
(Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 183-198.
17. Articles “Bleichröder, Gerson von (1822-93)” “Bourgeoisie (Bürgertum),” "Family,"
"Fürstenberg, Carl (1850-1933),” “Hamburg,” and “Warburg, Max” by Dieter K. Buse
and Juergen C. Doerr, eds., Modern Germany. An Encyclopedia of History, People, and
Culture, 1871-1990 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998), pp. 120; 131132; 297-298; 360-361; 430-432; 1048-1049.
18. "Zwischen Privilegierung und Entmachtung: Ingenieure in der Ulbricht-Ära," in Dieter
Hoffmann and Kristie Macrakis (eds.), Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der DDR
(Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997), pp. 173-191.
19. "The Banking Families in Berlin and Vienna around 1900," in Herman Diederiks and
David Reeder (eds.), Cities of Finance (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
and Sciences, 1996).
20. "Frustrierte Technokraten. Zur Sozialgeschichte des Ingenieurberufs in der UlbrichtÄra," in Ralph Jessen and Richard Bessel (eds.), Die Grenzen der Diktatur. Staat und
Gesellschaft in der DDR (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1996), pp. 49-75.
21. "Die jüdische Wirtschaftselite im wilhelminischen Berlin: Ein jüdisches Patriziat?," in
Reinhard Rürup (ed.), Jüdische Geschichte in Berlin. Essays und Studien (Berlin:
Edition Hentrich, 1995), pp. 101-116.
22. "GDR History between Historicization and Structure Analysis," Monatshefte (a
publication of the University of Wisconsin at Madison), vol. 85 (1993), pp. 303-312.
23. "The Banker in German Society," in Youssef Cassis (ed.), Finance and Financiers in
European History, 1880-1960 (London: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 161185.
24. "The Business Elites of Hamburg and Berlin," Central European History, vol. 24 (1991),
pp. 132-146.
25. "Arriving in the upper class: the wealthy business elite of Wilhelmine Germany," in
David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans (eds.), The German Bourgeoisie (London:
Routledge, 1991), pp. 46-86.
26. "Die soziale Stellung der jüdischen Wirtschaftselite im wilhelminischen Berlin," in
Werner E. Mosse and Hans Pohl (eds.), Jüdische Unternehmer in Deutschland im 19. und
20. Jahrhundert (64th special issue of Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte), pp. 225246.
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27. "Very Wealthy Businessmen in Imperial Germany," Journal of Social History, 22
(1988), pp. 299-321.
28. "Una ricerca sui plurimilionari nella germania guglielmina," Bollettino di Informazione a
Cura del Gruppo di Studio Sulle Borghesie del XX Secolo (Pisa), 4 (1987), pp. 5-6.
Reviews
1. Review of Kott, Sandrine, Histoire de la société allemande au xx. siècle: III La RDA
1949-1989. H-German, H-Net Reviews. October, 2012.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=34694
2. Review of Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Cultural Meanings,
Social Practices, edited by Sylvia Paletschek, Central European History 45/3 (September
2012), pp. 559 – 562.
3. Review of Vom “nationalen” zum “sozialistischen” Selbst. Zur Erfahrungsgeschichte
deutscher Chemiker und Ingenieure im 20. Jahrhundert by Georg Wagner-Kyora.
German History 29/4 (December 2011), pp. 685-686.
4. Review of Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the
German Democratic Republic by Donna Harsch, Journal of Social History Volume 44,
Number1 (Fall 2010), pp. 256-258.
5. Review of Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users by
Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, eds., Enterprise and Society, 11/2 (June 2010), pp.
421-424.
6. Review of Media and the Making of Modern Germany: Mass Communications, Society,
and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich by Corey Ross, Central European
History, 43/2 (June 2010), pp. 364-368.
7. Review of Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World by Kristie Macrakis,
Journal of Modern History Volume 82, Issue 1 (March 2010), pp. 238–240.
8. Review (written by me in German) of High Society in the Third Reich by Fabrice
d’Almeida, for H-SOZ-U-KULT (internet): http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/rezensionen/2009-4-020 (appeared in October 2009)
9. Review of Schützen und Helfen? Luftschutz und Zivilverteidigung in der DDR 1955 bis
1989/9 by Clemens Heitmann, for H-German (internet): http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24202 (appeared in May 2009)
10. Review of Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 by Benjamin
Maria Baader for European History Quarterly [Britain] 38 (October 2008), pp. 639-641.
11. Review of The Buchenwald Child. Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda by Bill Niven, Central
European History, 41/1 (March 2008), pp. 167-169.
12. Review of The Antifascist Classroom. Denazification in Soviet-occupied Germany, 19451949 by Benita Blessing, in German History [Britain] 26/2 (2008), pp. 327-329.
13. Review of Stephan Malinowski, Vom König zum Führer. Sozialer Niedergang und
politische Radikalisierung im deutschen Adel zwischen Kaiserreich und NS-Staat in
American Historical Review (October 2004), pp. 128-129.
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14. Review of Peter Lundgreen, ed., Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des Bürgertums, Central
European History 37/4 (2004), pp. 623-625.
15. Review of Raymond G. Stokes, Constructing Socialism. Technology and Change in East
Germany, 1945-1990, German Studies Review 26/2 (May 2003), pp. 128-129.
16. Review of Madeleine Hurd, Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy. Hamburg
and Stockholm, 1870-1914, Central European History, 36/3 (2003), pp. 473-476.
17. Review of Morten Reitmayer, Bankiers im Kaiserreich. Sozialprofil und Habitus der
deutschen Hochfinanz, Central European History, 36/1 (2003), pp. 132-135.
18. Review of John Connelly, Captive University and Ralph Jessen, Akademische Elite und
kommunistische Diktatur, Social History 28/1 (2003), pp. 142-144.
19. Review of Manfred Hettling, Politische Bürgerlichkeit: Der Bürger zwischen
Individualität und Vergesellschaftung in Deutschland und der Schweiz von 1860 bis
1918, Journal of Modern History 74/2 (June 2002), pp. 436-438.
20. Review of Jürgen Kocka, Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and
Bureaucracy in Modern Germany, Central European History 34/2 (2001), pp. 249-252.
21. Review of Frank Möller, Bürgerliche Herrschaft in Augsburg 1790-1880, Central
European History 34/1 (2001), pp. 101-104.
22. Review of Elisabeth Kraus, Die Familie Mosse: Deutsch-jüdisches Bürgertum im 19.
und 20. Jahrhundert, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 19/4
(Summer 2001), pp. 162-164.
23. Review of Hartwin Spenkuch, Das Preußische Herrenhaus: Adel und Bürgertum in der
Ersten Kammer des Landtages 1854-1918, American Historical Review 105/3 (June
2000), pp. 1031-1032.
24. Review of Ralf Roth, Stadt und Bürgertum in Frankfurt am Main, American Historical
Review 103/1 (February 1999), pp. 265-266.
25. Review of Volker R. Berghahn and Paul J. Friedrich, Otto A. Friedrich, ein politischer
Unternehmer, German Studies Review 22/1 (February 1999), pp. 157-158.
26. (Internet) Review of Rainer Hudemann and Georges-Henri Soutou, eds., Eliten in
Deutschland und Frankreich im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Elites en France et en
Allemagne aux XIXème et Xxème siècles, H-German, H-Net Reviews, 1998. URL:
www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6788896976788
27. Review of Marion Kaplan, The Making of the Jewish Middle Class, in Studies in
Contemporary Jewry, vol. 10 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
28. Review of Ron Chernow, The Warburgs, in Central European History, vol. 27 (1994), pp.
532-533.
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Presentation of papers "German Social History Conference" (organized by Richard Evans), University
of East Anglia, 1986; Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, 1989; University of Geneva, 1989; AHA, 1990;
Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, 1991; GSA 1992; AAASS, 1992; New College,
USF, 1993; "Science under Socialism in East Germany in Comparative Perspective" (Berlin and
Conway), 1993 and 1995; GSA 1993; “Grenzen der Diktatur,” Freie Universität Berlin (organized by
Richard Bessel and Ralf Jessen), 1994; GSA 1995; GSA 1996; Carnegie Mellon University (Cold War
science group) 1996; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, 1997 (two talks);
Center for European Studies of Harvard University, 1997; GSA 1997; IEEE 1999 International
Symposium on Technology and Society: “Women and Technology: Historical, Societal, and
Professional Perspectives;” GSA 2000; Vassar College (talk before students), 2000; AHA 2002; Prince
Albert Society/Prinz-Albert-Gesellschaft (Coburg), 2002; GSA 2003; Zentrum für Zeithistorische
Forschung, Potsdam, German, 2004; Hagley Museum, 2004; GSA 2005; European Social Science
History Conference 2006, GSA 2006, Launch Conference of the European Science Foundation
EUROCORES Program “Inventing Europe” in conjunction with the Third Plenary Conference of the
Tensions of Europe Network (ToE), 2007; GSA 2007; "Bürgertum und Bürgerlichkeit im 20.
Jahrhundert in internationaler Perspektive," Loccum, Germany; SHOT (Society for the History of
Technology) 2007; Historical Seminar on Contemporary Science and Technology, National Air & Space
Museum (Washington, D.C.), 2008; International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Helsinki),
2008; GSA 2008; AAASS 2008; University of Michigan, "Writing East German History: What
Difference Does the Cultural Turn Make?" 2008; AHA 2009; SHOT 2009; German Historical Institute
2009; AHA 2010; “Cold War Culture,” University of Texas, 2010; GSA 2010; German Historical
Institute 2010; Wilson Center 2010; GSA 2011; SHOT 2011; “Tensions of Europe” conference
“Democracy and Technology, Paris 2013; GSA 2013
Study group Part of Women’s German History Study Group (New York), 1990 to present.
Research stays Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, summer 1997 and
summer 2011; Center for European Studies (affiliate), fall 1997.
Review work for the journals Central European History, Enterprise & Society; University of
Nebraska Press, Ohio State University Press, Berghahn Publishers, M.I.T. Press, Oxford
University Press; National Science Foundation (review of grant applications).
Outside tenure evaluator University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Outside thesis evaluator University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Seminar participation U.S. Holocaust Museum seminar, “Moral Dilemmas and Moral Choice in
the Holocaust: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Pius XII as Case Studies in Religious Leadership,” June
2014
Foreign languages French (very good reading knowledge), German (near-native in speech and
writing), and Spanish (near-native in speech; very good reading knowledge).