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Ph.D., History, University of Michigan
M.A., History, University of Michigan
B.A., History, Pomona College
| Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2024 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Fall 2023 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2023 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2022 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Fall 2022 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2022 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2021 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Fall 2021 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2021 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2021 | HIS | 3340 | Wmn in Europe: Ancient-Mdrn |
| Fall 2020 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2020 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2020 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Spring 2020 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2019 | HIS | 3340 | Wmn in Europe: Ancient-Mdrn |
| Fall 2019 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2018 | HIS | 6002H | Honors - History II |
| Fall 2017 | HIS | 6001H | History - Honors I |
| Fall 2017 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Fall 2017 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2016 | HIS | 5000 | Independent Study History I |
| Fall 2016 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2016 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2015 | HIS | 5000 | Independent Study History I |
| Fall 2014 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Fall 2013 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2013 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2013 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2013 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Spring 2012 | WSM | 4900 | Topics in Women's Studies |
| Spring 2012 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Fall 2011 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2010 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Summer 2010 | HIS | 5000 | Independent Study History I |
| Fall 2009 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2009 | HIS | 3340 | Wmn in Europe: Ancient-Mdrn |
| Spring 2008 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2008 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2007 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2007 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Fall 2007 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2007 | HIS | 3460 | Topics in American History |
| Fall 2006 | HIS | 5000 | Independent Study History I |
| Fall 2006 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2006 | HIS | 3460 | Topics in American History |
| Spring 2006 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2005 | HIS | 5000 | Independent Study History I |
| Spring 2005 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2004 | HIS | 3460 | Topics in American History |
| Fall 2004 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2004 | FRO | 1000 | First Year Seminar |
| Spring 2004 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2004 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Fall 2003 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Fall 2003 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2003 | HIS | 1003H | Honors - Global History 1500 |
| Fall 2002 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
Books
Pence, K. (2019). Gender and Consumer Politics in Cold War Germany. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.
Pence, K., & Betts, P. (2008). Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press .
Journal Articles
Pence, K. (2019). “We want to see the rich Germany”: The Tour of African Women at West Germany’s 1962 “Africa Week”. Central European History, 12,406 words.
Pence, K., & Zimmerman, A. (2012). "Transnationalism". German Studies Review, 35(3). 495-500.
Pence, K. (2012). “Showcasing Cold War Germany in Cairo: 1954 and 1957 Industrial Exhibitions and the Competition for Arab Partners Katherine Pence”. Journal of Contemporary History, 46(1). 69-95.
Pence, K. (2001). “’You as a woman will understand’: Consumption, Gender and the Relationship between State and Citizenry in the GDR’s June 17 1953” . German History (London, UK: Arnold Publisher), 19(2). 218-252.
Pence, K. (1992). “The 'Frauleins’ meet the 'Amis’: Americanization of German Women in the Reconstruction of the West German State”. Michigan Feminist Studies , (7). 83-108.
Book Chapters
Pence, K., & Barker, E. (2021). "The International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR)". In Dorff, M., Taylor, D., & Rychtar, J. (Eds.), Expanding Undergraduate Research in Mathematics: Making UR More Inclusive (pp. 161-166). The Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
Pence, K. (2018). Introduction. In Hentzi, G., & Romero Jr., A. (Eds.), From Departure to Destination: Reminiscences of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences (pp. 1-10). New York. Baruch College Weissman School of Arts and Sciences.
Pence, K. H. (2015). "Antipathy and Attraction to the West and Western Consumerism in the German Democratic Republic". In Bavaj, R., & Steber, M. (Eds.), Germany and ‘the West’: The History of a Modern Concept (pp. 277-292). Oxford. Berghahn Books.
Pence, K. (2014). "Eat, Drink & Smoke/Essen, Trinken & Rauchen". In Jampol, J. (Ed.), Beyond the Wall: The East German Collection of the Wende Museum (p. 28 (604 words)). Cologne, Germany. Taschen Books.
Pence, K. (2012). "Grounds for Discontent? Coffee from the Black Market to the Kaffeeklatsch in the GDR". In Neuberger, M., & Bren, P. (Eds.), Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Postwar Eastern Europe (pp. 197-225). Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press.
Pence, K., & Betts, P. (2008). "Introduction". In Pence, K., & Betts, P. (Eds.), Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics (pp. 1-36). Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press.
Pence, K. (2008). "Women on the verge: Consumers between private desires and public crisis". In Pence, K., & Betts, P. (Eds.), Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press.
Pence, K. (2006). "Shopping for an Economic Miracle: Gendered Politics of Consumer Citizenship in Divided Germany". In Chatriot, A., Chessel, M., & Hilton, M. (Eds.), The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society (pp. 105-120). Aldershot. Ashgate Press.
Pence, K. (2004). “Politiques de la consummation, femmes et citoyenneté dans les deux Allemagnes”. In Chatriot, A., Chessel, M., & Hilton, M. (Eds.), Au nom du consommateur: Consommation et politique en Europe et aux États-Unis au XXe siécle (pp. 188-216). Paris. La Découverte.
Pence, K. (2003). “'A World in Miniature’: The Leipzig Trade Fairs in the 1950s and East German Consumer Citizenship”. In Crew, D. F. (Ed.), Consuming Germany in the Cold War: Consumption and National Identity in East and West Germany (pp. 21-50). Oxford, UK. Berg Press.
Pence, K. (2003). “Building Socialist Worker-Consumers: The Paradoxical Construction of the Handelsorganisation-HO,1948”. In Huebner, P., & Tenfelde, K. (Eds.), Arbeiter in der SBZ-DDR (pp. 497-526). Essen. Klartext Verlag.
Pence, K. (2003). “The Myth of a Suspended Present: Prosperity’s Painful Shadow in 1950s East Germany”. In Betts, P., & Eghigian, G. (Eds.), Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History (pp. 137-159). Palo Alto. Stanford University Press.
Pence, K. (2000). “‘Herr Schimpf und Frau Schande’: Grenzgänger des Konsums im geteilten Berlin und die Politik des Kalten Krieges”. In Ciesla, B., Lemke, M., & Lindenberger, T. (Eds.), Sterben für Berlin? Die Berliner Krisen 1948:1958 (pp. 185-202). Berlin. Metropol Verlag.
Pence, K. (1997). “Schaufenster de sozialistischen Konsums: Texte der Texte der Ostdeutschen ‘Consumer Culture'”. In Becker, P., & Luedtke, A. (Eds.), Akten, Eingaben, Schaufenster: Die DDR und ihre Texte. Erkundungen zu Herrschaft und Alltag (pp. 91-118). Berlin. Akademie Verlag.
Pence, K. (1996). “Labours of Consumption: Gendered Consumers in Postwar East and West German Reconstruction”. In Abrams, L., & Harvey, E. (Eds.), Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (pp. 211-238). London. University College of London Press.
Pence, K. "Exports at Postwar Trade Fairs and Dilemmas of Public Diplomacy in Decolonizing Africa: West German Participation in South Africa’s Rand Easter Show during Apartheid". Made in Germany New York, NY. Berghahn Books. In Progress.
Media Contributions
Pence, K. (2009). “20 Years After the Fall, Nostalgia Builds for East German Design,” Presentation for PBS Newshour Online, Art Beat.
Previous link to video: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/20-years-after-the-fall-nostalgia-builds-for-east-german-design.html
Presentations
Pence, K. "Exports at Postwar Trade Fairs and Dilemmas of Public Diplomacy in Decolonizing Africa: West German Participation in South Africa’s Rand Easter Show during Apartheid" for the Seminar "Made in Germany: Myths and Materiality of an Exporting Nation,". 47th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Montreal, Canada: German Studies Association.
Pence, K. (2025, March 13). "Togolese Students in Altenkirchen: How a Local Rhineland Togo Union Brought Africans to Germany" for the panel "Germany and the African Diaspora". 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Baltimore, MD
Pence, K. "Humane Empathy for the Margins" for the Panel "The Visual, the Social and the Material". "No Straight Lines: Peculiar Pasts and Crooked Futures--A Symposium in Honor of Geoff Eley. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan--Ann Arbor.
Pence, K. (2020, October 2). "Togolese Students in Altenkirchen: Local Civic Development Aid from a Rhineland Togo-Union" for the panel "From 'Entwicklungshilfe' to Humanitarianism (1): Aid to Africa". 44th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Online
Pence, K. (2020, October 4). Commentator for the Panel: "The Socialist Imaginary: Literary, Visual, and Material Modes of GDR Self-Representation". 44th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Online
Pence, K. (2020, May 28). "German and African Women in Global Itineraries: Possibilities and Limits to Manufacturing 1960s International Women’s Movements" for the Panel "Rethinking International Feminist Solidarity and Praxis in the Postwar Germanies. "Genders and Sexualities": Eighteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Johns Hopkins University: Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
Pence, K. (2019, November 7). Commentator for the Panel: "Social Effects and Debates". "In the Laboratory of Market Economics: Toward a History of Germany’s Treuhandanstalt, 1989/90-1994" Conference. Cambridge University, UK: Cambridge DAAD Research Hub for German Studies/Leibniz Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich.
Pence, K. (2019, October 6). Comment for the Roundtable "Writing East German History Ten Years On: Perspectives on the Interdisciplinary History of the GDR". 43rd Annual German Studies Association Conference. Portland, OR: German Studies Association.
Pence, K. (2019, October 4). "Women at the West German Africa Week: Limits and Possibilities of Early 1960s Transnational Exchanges" for the panel "East and West Germans' Transantaional Trajectories and Alternative Solidarities.". 43rd Annual German Studies Association Conference. Portland, OR
Pence, K. (2019, March 22). Keynote Address: "Sparking Joy in the Not-so-tidy Historiography of Consumption". 11th annual Graduate Conference "Consumption, Exchange and Material Culture". Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, Department of HIstory.
Pence, K. (2018, November 9). Roundtable participant for the "World War I and its Impact" Conference. CUNY Graduate Center: DAAD/CUNY.
Pence, K. (2018, September 30). Moderator for the Panel: "Cold War Politics, East and West". 41st Annual German Studies Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA
Pence, K. (2018, September 27). Commentator on the Panel: "East German Trajectories of 1968 Beyond the Public Sphere". 41st Annual German Studies Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA
Pence, K. (2017, December 14). "Staking her Claim: Kathleen Canning's Gender Revolution, Women's Agency, and the Expansion of Citizenship". “The Shape of History – A Kathleen Canning Frame of Mind” A Symposium. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, History Department.
Pence, K. (2017, November 17). Round Table on the Velvet Revolution and the Fall of Communism. "The Velvet Reunion: A night of celebration for the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989" Symposium. New York City: Czech Center New York.
Pence, K. (2017, April 25). Commentator on the Panel Discussion of "Chronicle of Return: Life Histories of Jews in the GDR (1989/93)" with co-director Jeff Peck. Film Screening and Panel Discussion. Baruch College, Engelman Recital Hall: The Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College.
Pence, K. (2017, January 19). "The West German Scramble for Africa: The Public Diplomacy of Mobile Exhibitions in Decolonizing Africa". "MACHINERIES OF PERSUASION: European Soft Power and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War" Conference. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies Department of History, Aarhus University.
Pence, K. H. (2016, October 1). Moderator for the Panel: "Making Germany in Africa: Mobility, Technology, and Identity". 40th Annual German Studies Association Conference. San Diego, CA
Pence, K. H. (2016, September 30). Untitled paper for Seminar: "Writing Histories of Germans Abroad. Approaches and Methodologies to German Sources on the Global South.". 40th Annual German Studies Association Conference. San Diego, CA: German Studies Association.
Pence, K. H. (2016, September 30). Discussant on the Roundtable: "Ten Days that Shook the Century? Modernity and the Meaning of the Russian October Revolution". 40th Annual German Studies Association Conference. San Diego, CA
Pence, K. (2014, December 11). "Nostalgia for Socialist East Germany?: Twenty-five Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall". Baruch Macaulay Honors College Free Thinking Lunch.
Pence, K. (2014, November 12). "Beyond Dictatorship or 'Ostalgie': Post-Wende Perspectives on Cold War Divided Germany". "25 Years After the Fall of the Wall: Critical Perspectives" Conference. Rutgers University Center for European Studies
Pence, K. (2014, September 19). Moderator for the Panel: "Surveillance and German Studies (1): Violence, Xenophobia, and Privacy". 38th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Kansas City, MO: GSA.
Pence, K. (2014, October 3). "Cold War Political Exhibitions as Cultural Diplomacy in the Decolonizing World". "Medium, Method, and Message in Cultures of the Cold War" Conference. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Pence, K. (2014, September 19). Moderator for the Panel: "The German Democratic Republic and the Globalizing World Economy, 1971-1989". 38th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Kansas City, MO: GSA.
Pence, K. (2013, October 6). "The East and West German Scramble for Africa: Exhibiting Cold War Competition in the Age of Decolonization". 37th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Denver, CO: German Studies Association.
Pence, K. (2012, June 29). "'Uhuru' for Berlin?: Willy Brandt's Trip to Africa and the Cold War Discourse of Decolonization". Willy Brandt Symposium: "Willy Brandt--Denken, Wirken und Rezeption 20 Jahre nach seinem Tod". Erfurt, Germany: University of Erfurt, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy.
Pence, K. (2010, October 7). "‘Uhuru’ for Berlin?: Willy Brandt’s Trip to Africa and the Cold War Discourse of Decolonization". 34th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Oakland, CA
Pence, K. (2009, October 8). Moderator for the Roundtable, "Rethinking German Modernities (2): A Roundtable". 33rd Annual German Studies Association. Washington, DC
Pence, K. (2009, October 1). "The Struggle for Real Coffee: From Black Market and Global Trade to the GDR Kaffeeklatsch". “Germans’ Things: Material Culture and Daily Life in East and West 1949-2009,” Conference. University of California Los Angeles and Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, CA: UCLA and the Wende Museum.
Pence, K. (2009, September 17). "East German Socialist Modernity and Consumer Culture Before and After the Wall". Lecture Series "DDR--Was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History". Washington, DC: German Historical Institute.
Pence, K. (2009, May 28). "East Germany in Cairo: 1954 and 1957 Industrial Exhibitions and the Competition with West Germany for Arab Partners". “Sites of Convergence: The USSR and Communist Eastern Europe at International Fairs Abroad and at Home” Conference. Budapest, Hungary
Pence, K. (2009, February 13). "Challenges in Exhibiting West German Modernity to Africa: The Mobile Exhibitions of 1961 and 1963". “Rethinking German Modernities: Part IV” Conference. Austin, TX: University of Texas-Austin.
Pence, K. (2008, December 5). "East Germany in Global Context: The Transnational Cultural Turn". “Writing East Germany: What difference does the Cultural Turn Make,” Conference. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.
Pence, K. (2008, January 3). "The German Product Invasion in Africa: German Trade Exhibition in Decolonizing Countries in the 1960s". American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC
Pence, K. (2007, November 9). "Consumer Politics and Everyday Negotiations of Power". Practices and Power in History of Everyday Life: A Symposium in Honor of Alf Luedtke. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.
Pence, K. (2007, October 4). Commentator on the Panel: "Aid for Africa". 31st Annual German Studies Association. San Diego, CA
Pence, K. (2007, October 4). "Scrambling for Trade: East and West Germany at African and Middle Eastern Trade Fairs 1953-1965". 31st Annual German Studies Association. San Diego, CA
Pence, K. (2007, September 6). "The German Product Invasion in Africa: German Trade Exhibitions in Decolonizing Countries in the 1960s". Germany's Colonialism in International Perspective: International Interdisciplinary Conference on German Colonialism and Post-Colonialism. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University.
Pence, K. (2007, June 1). "Bussing German Modernity Through Africa: Traveling Trade Exhibitions and German Transnational Ties in the 1960s". "Rethinking – German- Modernities: Part III" Conference. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.
Pence, K. (2007, March 30). "Bananas for East Germany: From Shortage to Surplus in East German Consumer Historiography". “Past, Present, and Future: East Germany before and after Communism” an International Conference. Toronto, Canada: Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Pence, K. (2006, November 7). "Mr. Insult and Ms. Shame: The Politics of Shopping in Cold War Germany". Honors Program Brown Bag Lecture. Baruch College
Pence, K. (2006, May 19). Presentation. "Rethinking-German-Modernities: What is the Germanness of German History?” Workshop. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.
Pence, K. (2006, September 28). Commentator on the Panel: "The Berlin Wall, Cinemas and Civic Symbols: Readings of the Inner Life of the German People through the Study of Key Artifacts". 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA
Pence, K. (2006, September 28). "Black Market Smuggling and East-West Conflict in Divided Germany". 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA
Pence, K. (2005, September 29). Moderator for the Panel: "Naturalizing and Nationalizing Germany’s Borderlands, 1850-1930". 29th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Milwaukee, WI
Pence, K. (2005, July 1). "Cold War Iceboxes: Competing Visions of Kitchen Politics in 1950s Divided Germany". "Kitchen Politics of the Cold War" Conference. Munich, Germany
Pence, K. (2005, May 19). "Cold War ‘Alternative Modernities’: Competing German Consumer Economies in Global Context". First “Rethinking German Modernities: Modernity and Empire: Reconceptualizing Twentieth-Century German History,” Workshop. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto.
Pence, K. (2005, March 7). "Shopping Before the Wall: Gender, Consumption and Cold War Competition in Divided Germany". "Culture, Power, Boundaries" Seminar. New York, NY: Columbia University.
Pence, K. (2004, October 6). Moderator for the Panel: "The Search For 'Normalcy' in Weimar and the Third Reich". 28th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC
Pence, K. (2004, October 6). Commentator on the Panel: "Marketing Socialisms?: Culture, Consumption, and Cold War Competition". 28th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC
Pence, K. (2004, November 23). "Showcase Showdown: Consumption, Conflict and Citizenship in the Cold War Germanies". Invited Lecturer. UK: University of Warwick.
Pence, K. (2004, June 10). "Shopping for an ‘Economic Miracle’: Gender Politics of Consumer Citizenship in Divided Germany". "Au nom du consommateur: La consummation entre mobilsation sociale et politique public dans les pays occidentaux au XXe siècle" International Colloquium. Paris, France
Pence, K. (2004, November 24). "Shopping Before the Wall: Gender, Consumption and Cold War Competition in Divided Germany". Invited Lecturer. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham.
Pence, K. (2003, October 17). "America’s Love Affair with German Fräuleins: German-American Relations in Postwar Pulp Fiction". Midwest German History Workshop. University of Illinois--Champaign/Urbana
Pence, K. (2003, November 6). "Showing Off Socialism: East German Advertising in the 1950s and 1960s". "Selling Modernity: Advertising and Public Relations in Modern German History" Conference. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: McMaster University.
Pence, K. (2003, November 17). Commentator on the Paper by Jana Bruns "The Disobedient Maiden: Kristina Soederbaum Film Politics, and Womanhood". "Women and Society" Seminar. Columbia University, New York, NY
Pence, K. (2003, December 12). "Shopping in the Rubble: Gendering Postwar German Consumption in Comparative Perspective". Transnational European History Seminar. Fordham and Yeshiva Universities
Pence, K. (2003, September 18). "Showcase Showdown: Tensions Over Global and Domestic Consumption in the GDR". 27th Annual German Studies Association Conference. New Orleans, LA
Pence, K. (2003, February 13). "'A World in Miniature’: East German Consumption at the Leipzig Trade Fair". CUNY Intellectual and Cultural History Seminar. New York, NY: CUNY Graduate Center.
Pence, K. (2003, February 27). "Showcase Showdown: Consumption, Conflict and Citizenship in the Cold War Germanies". Dean’s Lecture Series: “Transnational Perspectives on Women and Gender: Historicizing Difference, Power, and Resistance". SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Pence, K. (2003, April 26). "Shopping in the Rubble: Gendering Consumption and the Postwar German Public Sphere". "Cycles of Change: Reconstruction, Gender, and Public Life in Western Europe after the Two World Wars" Workshop. Harvard University: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Pence, K. (2003, September 18). Commentator and Moderator for the Panel: "The State and the Self in the GDR". 27th Annual German Studies Association Conference. New Orleans, LA
Pence, K. (2002, November 18). "Showcase Showdown: Gender and Consumption in Cold War Germany". "Women and Society" Seminar. New York, NY: Columbia University.
Pence, K. (2002, November 8). "Center and Periphery: Germany in the Age of Decolonization". Midwest German History Workshop. University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana
Pence, K. (2002, October 4). Commentator on the Panel: "Modernity begins at Home: Domesticity, Consumers and Technology". 26th Annual German Studies Association Conference. San Diego, CA
Pence, K. (2002, April 9). "German Women as Cold War Consumers: The Politics of Shopping Between Citizenship and Deviance". German Study Group and Gender, Society and Politics Study Group. Harvard University: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Pence, K. (2002, February 27). "Showcase Showdown: Consumption, Conflict and Citizenship in the Cold War Germanies". Visiting Scholar Luncheon. Harvard University: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Pence, K. (2001, October 5). "German Modernities: Historicizing Concepts of Change and Continuity". 25th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC
Pence, K. (2000, November 11). "East German Itineraries: Fantasies and Realities of Travel behind the 'Iron Curtain'". Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pence, K. (2000, October 5). "Showcasing Consumption to East German Women: The Leipzig and Hannover Trade Fairs in the 1950s and Popular Construction of Consumer Citizenship". 24th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Houston, TX
Pence, K. (2000, October 5). "Consumer Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany". 24th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Houston, TX
Pence, K. (2000, May 18). "'Erleichterung des Lebens der werktätigen Frau’: Paradoxes of Consumption in the DDR and BRD". "Politikgeschichte - Alltagsgeschichte – Lebensgeschichte: Figurationen 1938-1968: NS-Deutschland, DDR, BRD, und Österreich im Vergleich" Conference. Erfurt, Germany
Pence, K. (1999, June 4). "'Easing the Life of the Working Woman’ or Does Socialism Liberate Women from Shopping?: East German Consuming Women in the 1950s". "Breaking Boundaries": The 11th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Rochester, New York
Pence, K. (1999, November 30). "Landscapes of Consumption: Defining German Internal and External Spaces". Midwest German History Workshop. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pence, K. (1998, November 21). "Sexualities and Cold War Politics". Midwest German History Workshop. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Pence, K. (1998, October 8). "Value under the Rubble: Salvaging German Culture Through Postwar Exhibitions". 22nd Annual German Studies Association Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah
Pence, K. (1998, May 7). "'Herr Schimpf und Frau Schande’: Grenzgänger des Konsums im geteilten Berlin und die Politik des Kalten Krieges". "Berliner Krisen 1948:1958: Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur im Kalten Krieges" Conference. Zentrum fur Berlin-Studien, Berlin, Germany
Pence, K. (1997, September 25). "Consuming Socialism: Continuities and Contradictions in Building Socialist ‘Consumer Culture’ in the GDR 1948-1960". 21st Annual German Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC
Pence, K. (1997, September 29). "Building Socialist Consumption: The Handelsorganisation-HO". "Arbeiter in der SBZ/DDR 1945-1970" Conference. Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany: Institut zur Erforschung der Europäischen Arbeiterbewegung.
Pence, K. (1997, November 8). "Postwar Histories of Consumption". Midwest German History Workshop. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Pence, K. (1997, May 16). "From Rations to Fashions: The Politics of West German Consumption". "Geteilte Geschichte--A History Shared and Divided: The Two Germanies 1945-1990" Conference. Seattle, WA: University of Washington.
Pence, K. (1997, April 16). "'Schimpf und Schande': Negotiating a West Berlin Identity Through a State Campaign Against ‘Deviant’ Consumers". Third Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History: "Germany Divided and United, 1945-1998". Washington, DC: German Historical Institute.
Pence, K. (1997, May 5). Participation in Roundtable: "Women in Contemporary Eastern Europe". "Thinking About Gender in the Social Sciences: Poland as a Case Study". Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
Pence, K. (1996, June 7). "Shopping in Reconstruction Germany: State Regulation of Consumption and the Structuring of Women’s Daily Life". "Complicating Categories: Women, Gender and Difference": The 10th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pence, K. (1994, October 31). "A Schaufensterbummel through the GDR: Reading the Texts of East German Consumer Culture". "What is the Text of the Text: Reading the Files of East German Bureaucracies" Conference. Washington DC: German Historical Institute.
Pence, K. (1993, June 30). "'The Bras that Fell from Heaven’: Gender and Material Culture in Postwar German Women’s Magazines". Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies. Goethe Institute, Chicago
Pence, K. (1993, April 2). "Popular Culture, Consumer Culture, and the Gendering of Cold War German Identities". Graduate Student Workshop on East German History. Harvard University: Center for European Studies.
Pence, K. (1993, May 31). "'The Bras that Fell from Heaven’: German Women Window Shopping for Postwar Utopias". 9th Bershire Conference on the History of Women. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College.
Pence, K. (1992, June 30). "Ambivalence Toward ‘Americanization’ of German Women as an Indication of Anxiety about Reconstruction of the West German State, 1945-1953". Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies. Goethe Institute Chicago
Reviews
Pence, K. (2025,October 28). Book Review of "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975," By Sara Pugach, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022.. German Studies Review.
Pence, K. (2025,September 28). Review of the book: Andrew Demshuk, Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).. American Historical Review.
Pence, K. (2018,June 1). Review of the Book by Eli Rubin, Amnesiopolis: Modernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Journal of Modern History.
Pence, K. (2014,December 1). Review of the Book by Edith Sheffer. Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). American Historical Review.
Pence, K. (2013,April 1). Review of the Book by Greg Castillo, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009). Slavic Review.
Pence, K. (1970,January 1). “Material Matters,” Review of the Book by Eli Rubin, Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Book Forum.
Pence, K. (2006,March 1). Review of the Book by Catherine Epstein, The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003). Journal of Modern History.
Pence, K. (2004,November 1). Review of the Books: Hartmut Berghoff et al. (Eds.), The Making of Modern Tourism: The Culture History of the British Experience, 1600-2000 (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002) and Rudy Koshar (Ed.), Histories of Leisure (London: Berg, 2002).. Social History .
Pence, K. (2003,July 1). Review of the Book by Corey Ross, The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR (London and New York: Edward Arnold Publishers, 2002). H-German, H-Net Reviews. Oxford: Oxford University Press .
Pence, K. (1997,January 1). Review of the Book by Michael Wildt, Am Beginn der ‘Konsumgesellschaft’ Mangelerfahrung,Lebenshaltung, Wohlstandshoffnoug in Westdeutschland in den fu¨nfziger Jahren (Ergebnisse Verlag, 1994). German History.
Pence, K. (1997,February 1). Review of the Book by Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). The Midwestener .
Research Currently in Progess
Pence, K.(n.d.). “Partners in Progress”: Exhibiting German Masculinity, Modernity, and Cold War Competition to Decolonizing Africa. In Progress.
Second book project progress: archival research in 2003-12, published articles related to research, conference presentations related to research, book proposal completed, and funding of research
Pence, K.(n.d.). “Togolese Students in Altenkirchen: Local Civic Development Aid from a Rhineland Togo-Union”. In Progress.
In 1960, Altenkirchen City Councilman Otto Uhlmann (CDU) had the idea to bring students from the former German colony of Togo to his West German Westerwald region to study. Uhlmann founded an Altenkirchen Togo-Verein in 1961, built interest in Africa with exhibitions, film presentations, and other programs, and collected 100,000 DM from students, doctors and patients, local singing and sports unions, and civil servants. These funds enabled Uhlmann to personally select the first 12 students in Togo that year. Eventually 24 youths came to study. Women studied nursing and men apprenticed with craftsmen. Using Uhlmann’s book about the venture, local press, and interviews with original Togo-Verein members, this paper examines how local non-governmental actors became involved in philanthropic activism and development aid in decolonizing Africa. The mythologized legacy of Germany in Togo as a “model colony” was evident in this exchange, since the Rhineland press reported fond memories among the Togolese of German colonial rule, such as the supposed excitement of the Togolese students at the visit to Altenkirchen of Togo’s last German governor, 90-year-old Herzog Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg. Lingering racism was also evident in a newspaper series recounting comments by black students about, for example, how one German asked a Togolese student if his blood was red and others wondered if shaking hands would cause black skin to rub off on their white hands. Uhlmann also addressed this racism explicitly, noting that the visit of students aimed to help eliminate racist misconceptions. This initiative also demonstrated local awareness of national politics, since commentators used nationally-touted terminology about Germany’s “partnership” with Africa and debated how to best offer development aid. However, unlike federally-sponsored development aid, this initiative had less overt Cold War aims. Nor was it religiously motivated. The participants claimed a generous desire to be helpful. Some remained in touch with their apprentices and their offspring for decades, expressed genuine affection for them, and through these friendships worked to grapple with older racist stereotypes. Thus, this story highlights motivations and experiences of local German and African actors in complex interaction with these global transformations.
Pence, K.(n.d.). “Uhuru” for Berlin?: Willy Brandt’s Trip to Africa and the Cold War Discourse of Decolonization. In Progress.
Article to be submitted to peer-reviewed journal by May 2021
| Title | Funding Agency Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Date | Total Funding | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The East and West German Scramble for Africa: Exhibiting Cold War Competition in the Age of Decolon | PSC-CUNY 47 | 07/01/2016 | 06/30/2017 | 04/15/2016 | 3499.02 | Completed |
| The East and West German Scramble for Africa: Exhibiting Cold War Competition in the Age of Decolon | PSC-CUNY 45 | 07/01/2014 | 06/30/2015 | 04/15/2014 | 3500 | Completed |
| The east and west german scramble for africa | PSC-CUNY 43 | 07/01/2012 | 06/30/2013 | 04/17/2012 | 3990 | Completed |
| The East and West German Scramble for Africa: Exhibiting Cold War Competition in the Age of Decolon | PSC-CUNY 42 | 07/01/2011 | 06/30/2012 | 04/15/2011 | 6000 | Completed |
| The East and West German Scramble for Africa: Exhibiting Cold War Competition in the Age of Decolon | PSC-CUNY 40 | 07/01/2009 | 06/30/2010 | 3925 | Completed | |
| EAST AND WEST GERMAN SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA | PSC-CUNY 39 | 07/01/2008 | 12/31/2009 | 4140 | Completed | |
| Bananas for Reconstructing Germany: German Reconstruction, Global Trade and Decolonization, 1952-1966 | PSC-CUNY 38 | 07/01/2007 | 06/30/2008 | 2010 | Completed | |
| Gender and Consumer Politics in Cold War Germany | CUNY Book Completion Award | 05/01/2020 | 04/30/2021 | 04/06/2020 | 6400 | Funded - In Progress |
| Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty Service Award for the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences | Baruch College Alumni Association Incorporated | 2015 | This award is in recognition of dedication to the students and mission of Baruch College over the years in ways that go beyond the normal responsibilities of a faculty member. |
| Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching | Baruch College Office of the President | 2008 | $1500 |
| Feliks Gross Endowment Award for Outstanding Research | CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences | 2007 | $500 |
| Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Program Award | Baruch College/Lang Foundation | 2006 | Lang Fellowships are designed to encourage and assist Baruch's junior faculty members to develop and carry out scholarly research in their disciplines in furtherance of their academic careers. The goal of the program is to produce scholarly research that represents significant accomplishment. |
| Andrew W. Mellon Seminar Fellowship in the Humanities for the theme “Aftermaths” | The Graduate Center-CUNY, The Center for the Humanities | 2006 | Year Long One-Course Release |
| Whiting Research Award for Excellence in Teaching | Baruch College | 2005 | Semester Leave Fall 2005 |
| Weissman School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Special Service to Students | Baruch College | 2004 | $200 |
| James Bryant Conant Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University | 2001-03-14 | ||
| Friedrich Ebert Dissertation Research Fellowship | Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn, Germany | 1995-04-05 | |
| Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship | Social Science Research Council (SSRC) | 1993-04-14 | |
| Preliminary Exams Passed with Distinction | University of Michigan, Department of History | 1993 | |
| Polish Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship at the University of Michigan | 1992-04-08 | ||
| Polish Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship at the University of Michigan | 1991-04-17 | ||
| Polish Summer Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Kosciuszko Language Program at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland | 1991-04-03 | ||
| Phi Beta Kappa | Pomona College | 1990 | |
| Eda May Haskell Library Prize | Pomona College | 1990 | |
| Pomona Scholar Award | Pomona College | 1987 |
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Monash and Warwick Universities Faculty Liaison | Campus Organizer | Present | |
| Women's and Gender Studies Minor and Program | Director | Present | |
| History Department Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| History Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Experiential and Community Engaged learning Working Group | Committee Member | Present | |
| Administrative Reassigned Time (ART) Committee Working Group | Committee Member | Present | |
| Search Committee for the Director of Experiential and Community Engaged Learning | Committee Member | 2/16/2024 | |
| Organizer of History Department talk by Prof. TJ Desch-Obi, "Fighting for Archives: Endangered Archives and Preserving the History of the Afro-Colombian Martial Arts" co-organized with the American Trust for the British Library | Organizer | 2/5/2024 | |
| Organizer of Student Prize Committees for the Baruch Research and Creative Inquiry Expo | Campus Organizer | 5/19/2023 | |
| Co-Organizer of the 3rd Annual Faculty Research Symposium | Organizer and MC During Event | 3/31/2023 | |
| Campus Organizer of 9th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/29/2022 | |
| Weissman School of Arts and Sciences Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Alliance | Committee Member | 5/31/2022 | |
| Organizer of Faculty Workshops on Research in Undergraduate Classrooms | Campus Organizer | 5/13/2022 | |
| Campus Organizer of 8th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/23/2021 | |
| History Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | 6/30/2021 | |
| Academic Affairs Diversity Advisory Board | Committee Member | 12/31/2020 | |
| Campus Organizer of 7th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/24/2020 | |
| Public lecture: Dr. Ervand Abrahamian "Understanding the US-Iran Crisis" | Organizer. | 2/27/2020 | |
| Campus Organizer of 6th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/26/2019 | |
| Baruch College Self Study, Working Group 4 | Committee Member | 3/31/2019 | |
| Macaulay Honors College Admissions Committee | Committee Member | 3/1/2019 | |
| Campus Organizer of 5th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/27/2018 | |
| Colonial/Early Republic American Women's History Assistant Professor Search Committee | Hiring Manager | 4/30/2018 | |
| Advisor for History Major Jennifer Michael's Honor's Thesis on the Politics of Fascism Associated with Architect Philip Johnson | 4/30/2018 | ||
| Islamic World History Assistant Professor Search Committee | Hiring Manager | 4/30/2018 | |
| History Department External Review Self Study Primary Author | 3/31/2018 | ||
| Macaulay Honors Admissions Committee | Committee Member | 2/28/2018 | |
| Schwartz Communication Institute Symposium on Communication-Intensive Teaching and Learning "Active Listening" | Small Group Facilitator | 11/10/2017 | |
| Campus Organizer of 4th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/28/2017 | |
| CUNY Faculty Diversity Dialogue | Attendee, Meeting | 5/16/2017 | |
| Baruch Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Commtitee | Committee Member | 12/31/2015 | |
| High Impact Practices Steering Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2015 | |
| Weissman Personnel and Budget Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2015 | |
| CUNYFirst Ambassador | Advisor on new online administrative system | 12/31/2015 | |
| Faculty Advisory Committee to the Schwartz Communication Institute | Committee Member | 9/30/2015 | |
| Campus Organizer of 3rd Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/24/2015 | |
| Campus Organizer of 2nd Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch | Campus Organizer | 9/24/2015 | |
| Schwartz Communication Institute Symposium on Communication-Intensive Teaching and Learning "Design Thinking and Practice" | Small Group Facilitator | 5/25/2015 | |
| Undergraduate Research and Civic Engagement Faculty Lunch Seminars, Presenter on "International Conference on Undergraduate Research, Fall 2015" | Presenter | 4/23/2015 | |
| Macaulay Honors Admissions Committee | Committee Member | 3/31/2015 | |
| History Department Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee | Committee Chair | 3/31/2015 | |
| Women's History Month Baruch's Faculty Panel: Women in the Workplace | Attendee, Meeting | 3/19/2015 | |
| Faculty Chaperone on Bus Trip to Seneca Falls Women's Rights National Historical Park for Women's History Month | 3/13/2015 | ||
| Admitted Student Recruitment Event | Attendee, Meeting | 2/26/2015 | |
| History Department Lecture Organizer | Organizer of a talk for Black History Month by journalist Marcus Baram about his book, "Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man." | 2/24/2015 | |
| Women's History Month Committee, Student Life Office | Attendee, Meeting | 1/6/2015 | |
| Organizer Book Celebration for Brigett Davis' novel Into the Go-Slow | 11/18/2014 | ||
| Transgender Events Committee for Baruch Performing Arts Center Series | Committee Member | 9/30/2014 | |
| Faculty Search Procedures Review Committee | Committee Member | 7/31/2014 | |
| Department Chair's Handbook Draft Reader | Faculty Advisor | 7/29/2014 | |
| Latino Heritage Month Committee, Student Life Office | Attendee, Meeting | 7/17/2014 | |
| Baruch College Sustainability Committee | Committee Member | 5/31/2014 | |
| Latin American History Assistant Professor Search Committee | Committee Chair | 4/30/2014 | |
| Oral History, Research Ethics, and Institutional Research Board (IRB) Compliance Discussion featuring Farida Lada, University Director of Research Compliance | Workshop Organizer | 4/24/2014 | |
| Baruch Associate Provost Search Committee | Committee Member | 3/31/2014 | |
| Undergraduate Recruitment Event | Panel Presenter | 2/23/2014 | |
| Baruch College Learning Communities, Participant | 12/31/2013 | ||
| Study Abroad in Poland for Winter Term Holocaust Course Planning Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2013 | |
| Civic Engagement Initiative | Committee Member | 12/31/2013 | |
| History Club (Official club founded Spring 2005) | Faculty Mentor | 12/31/2013 | |
| Baruch Summer Leadership Academy, Baruch Vice President for Student Affairs Office | Guest Lecturer | 7/17/2013 | |
| East Asian/Southeast Asian History Faculty Search Committee | Committee Member | 4/30/2013 | |
| Russian/Eastern European/Jewish History Faculty Search Committee | Committee Chair | 4/30/2013 | |
| Ancient History Search Committee | Committee Member | 4/30/2013 | |
| Organizer and moderator of a panel discussion "Germany after 1945: A Society Confronts Antisemitism, Racism, and Neo-Nazism" A program to launch an exhibition by the Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, Berlin, Germany | 4/17/2013 | ||
| Ad Hoc Pathways General Education Conference Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2012 | |
| Baruch Summer Leadership Academy, Baruch Vice President for Student Affairs Office | Guest lecturer | 7/16/2012 | |
| "Professor Carol Berkin’s History: Stories from Over Three Decades of Writing and Teaching American Colonial and Women’s History at Baruch" A Talk and Luncheon | Organizer and Host | 11/10/2011 | |
| “Labor Unions and Education: Historical and Current Challenges for Teachers,” Panel | Organizer and Host | 5/10/2011 | |
| "Understanding the Democratic Upheaval in Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan," A Teach-In Discussion with Associate Professor of Political Science Dov Waxman and Distinguished Professor of History Ervand Abrahamian | Organizer | 3/3/2011 | |
| Drafter of a proposal for an M.A. in Global History | 12/31/2010 | ||
| Panel “Meet the Authors: Five New Books in American History and How they were Written” with Carol Berkin, Charlotte Brooks, Julie Des Jardins, Bert Hansen, T.J. Desch-Obi | Organizer and Moderator | 5/12/2010 | |
| Baruch College Learning Communities | Participant | 12/31/2009 | |
| History Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | 5/29/2009 | |
| Women's History Month Co-Organizer with Luz Rodriguez from Student Life | 12/31/2008 | ||
| 2nd History Club Scavenger Hunt, Faculty Advisor | 5/31/2008 | ||
| Second Annual Women's Hall of Fame Dinner Party Co-Organizer | 3/25/2008 | ||
| Baruch College Learning Communities | Participant | 12/31/2007 | |
| Screening of “Full Disclosure: A Reporter’s Journal Toward Truth in Iraq,” A Documentary by Brian Palmer, former CNN correspondent | Organizer and host | 4/19/2007 | |
| Women’s History Month Panning Committee | 3/31/2007 | ||
| Organizer of Annual Friedman Symposium: "The History of American Consumer Culture: From the Home to a Global Empire" featuring Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University) and Susan Strasser (University of Delaware) | 3/22/2007 | ||
| Women’s Hall of Fame Dinner Party | Initiator and Co-organizer | 3/22/2007 | |
| Baruch College Learning Communities | Participant | 12/31/2006 | |
| History Majors Coordinator | Faculty Advisor | 5/19/2006 | |
| "The Hows of Entering Graduate School... A Seminar" sponsored by the Baruch History Club | Speaker | 2/23/2006 | |
| Women's Studies Minor | Women's Studies Learning Goals Writer | 12/31/2005 | |
| Women's Studies Minor | Women's Studies Model Capstone Syllabus Writer and Organizer | 12/31/2005 | |
| Weissman Research and Travel Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2005 | |
| Women's Studies Minor | Women's Studies Brochure Designer | 12/31/2005 | |
| 1st History Club Scavenger Hunt | Faculty Advisor | 5/31/2005 | |
| History Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | 5/31/2005 | |
| Women's History Month Co-Organizer (With Carol Berkin) | 3/31/2005 | ||
| "The History and Future of Women's Studies" Women's Studies Program Launch Panel Studies Program | Chair and Organizer | 3/21/2005 | |
| "The History and Future of Women's Studies" Women's Studies Program | Launch Panel Chair and Organizer | 3/21/2005 | |
| Andrew Bergerson (University of Missouri-Kansas City) “The Myth of Normalcy: Ordinary Germans & the Origins of the Holocaust" Lecture | Organizer and Host | 3/8/2005 | |
| Weissman Committee on Undergraduate Academic Standing | Committee Member | 12/31/2004 | |
| Baruch College Learning Communities | Participant | 12/31/2004 | |
| Baruch College Learning Communities Project | Participant | 12/31/2004 | |
| “Teaching Large Classes” | Faculty Development Session Presenter | 1/24/2004 | |
| History Department Curriculum Committee | 12/31/2003 | ||
| History Department Planning Committee | 12/31/2003 | ||
| Teach-In: “Iraq: Anatomy of a Crisis” part of the Historians Against the War National Teach-In Project | Initiator, Organizer, and Participant | 4/8/2003 | |
| “Teach-In on War in Iraq” Sponsored by the History Department and the Philosophy Club | Participant | 2/27/2003 |
University
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Studies Group | Attendee, Meeting | 12/1/2014 | Present |
| CUNY Undergraduate Research Council (CURC) | Committee Member | 11/28/2022 | 5/31/2022 |
| CUNY University Faculty Senate | University Senate Service | 7/1/2014 | 6/30/2017 |
| CUNY University Faculty Senate | University Senate Service | 9/1/2010 | 6/30/2014 |
| 2014 CUNY Faculty Leadership Academy | Workshop participant | 3/26/2014 | 5/7/2014 |
| Graduate Student Conference, "Charting New Historical Trajectories" | Commentator for the Panel: "Fighting for Consensus: The Complicated Legacies of Empire" | 3/28/2014 | 3/28/2014 |
| CUNY German History Workshop | Workshop Organizer | 4/17/2013 | 10/25/2013 |
| Dissertation Committee Member for Anton Masterovoy | Committee Member | 1/1/2009 | 8/30/2013 |
| CUNY History Discipline Council | Committee Member | 1/1/2011 | 12/31/2012 |
| CUNY University Faculty Senate General Education Reform Committee | Attendee, Meeting | 1/1/2011 | 4/30/2011 |
| CUNY Intellectual and Cultural History Seminar | Participant | 1/1/2002 | 12/31/2010 |
| PSC-CUNY grant applications | Reviewer | 12/31/2006 | |
| PSC-CUNY grant applications | Reviewer | 12/31/2003 |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University "Women and Society" Seminar | Member | 1/1/2002 | Present | Regional | ||
| Freshman PACE Introduction to the College Experience Course Instructor | Instructor | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| German Studies Review Journal of the German Studies Association, Editorial Review Board | Board Member | New York | United States | Present | International | |
| Dissertation Committee Member for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Student Jeffrey Hayton for the dissertation “Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock, Authenticity, and Alternative Culture in East and West Germany” | Committee Member | Illinois | United States | Present | National | |
| German Studies Association Program Committee, 20th/21st Century History Session Coordinator | Program Organizer | New York | United States | Present | International | |
| University of Michigan History Department Women’s Caucus Liaison | Committee Member | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Adrian College Association of Professors (ACAP) Adrian College Faculty Union At-Large Representative | Committee Member | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Adrian College Planning Committee Secretary | Officer, Secretary | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| German Studies Association Task Force on Recent PhDs | Committee Member | New York | United States | Present | International | |
| McNair Faculty Mentor for Minority Students, Adrian College | Student Mentor | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Adrian College Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Alliance | Faculty Mentor | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Gender Issues Committee, Adrian College | Committee Member | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Women’s Leadership Day Planning Committee, Adrian College | Committee Member | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Women’s Studies Program Task Force Coordinator, Adrian College | Program Organizer | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Service Learning Committee, Adrian College | Committee Member | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| Comparative Studies of Social Transformation Steering Committee, University of Michigan | Graduate Student Liaison | Michigan | United States | Present | Local | |
| German Women's History Study Group | Member | New York | 1/1/2002 | Present | ||
| German Studies Review Journal of the German Studies Association | Editorial Review Board Member | 1/1/2011 | 12/31/2017 | |||
| Graduate Student Article Prize committee for the Journal of Women's History awarded at the Berkshire Conference of Women's History | Committee Member | 10/1/2016 | 6/4/2017 | |||
| Graduate Student Article Prize committee member for the Journal of Women's History awarded at the Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians | Committee Member | New York | United States | 10/1/2016 | 6/4/2017 | International |
| Dissertation Committee Member for Harvard University Student Colleen Anderson | Committee Member | Massachusetts | 3/2/2017 | 4/25/2017 | National | |
| Dissertation Committee Member for Harvard University Student Colleen Anderson for the dissertation “‘Two Kinds of Infinity’: East Germany, West Germany, and the Cold War Cosmos, 1945-1995” | Committee Member | Massachusetts | United States | 3/2/2017 | 4/25/2017 | National |
| Dissertation Committee Member for NYU Student Laura Honsberger for the dissertation “‘Rendezvous with Moscow’: The Soviet Union in East German Popular Culture, 1961-1989” | Committee Member | New York | United States | 4/22/2014 | Regional | |
| Dissertation Committee Member for NYU Student Laura Honsberger | Committee Member | 1/1/2013 | 4/22/2014 | |||
| Dissertation Committee Member for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Student Jeffrey Hayton | 1/1/2011 | 12/31/2012 | ||||
| University of Chicago Press | Reviewer, Book | 12/31/2010 | ||||
| German Studies Association Program Committee, 20th/21st Century History Session Coordinator | Committee Member | 9/1/2008 | 12/31/2009 | International | ||
| German Studies Association Task Force on Recent PhDs | Task Force Member | 12/31/2006 | ||||
| NYU Remarque Institute Seminar | Member | 1/1/2004 | 12/31/2006 | |||
| Central European History Journal | Reviewer, Journal Article | 12/31/2005 | ||||
| “Reading W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz: The Architecture of Memory,” 13th Annual Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women’s History and Culture | Program Organizer | New York | United States | 3/5/2005 | 3/7/2005 | Regional |
| “Reading W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz: The Architecture of Memory,” 13th Annual Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women’s History and Culture | Program Organizer | 3/5/2005 | 3/7/2005 | |||
| Transnational European History Seminar, Fordham and Yeshiva Universities | Member | 1/1/2002 | 12/31/2004 | |||
| Historians Against the War (HAW) | Member | 1/1/2003 | 12/31/2004 | |||
| University of Michigan Press | Reviewer, Book | 12/31/2003 | ||||
| “Gender and Consumption in Modern Germany,” 12th Annual Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women’s History and Culture, New York University | Program Organizer | New York | United States | 4/4/2003 | 4/5/2003 | Regional |
| “Gender and Consumption in Modern Germany,” 12th Annual Workshop of the Northeast Working Group on German Women’s History and Culture | Co-Compiler of readings and participant | 4/4/2003 | 4/5/2003 | |||
| Women’s Studies Program Task Force Coordinator, Adrian College | Track Organizer | 1/1/1998 | 12/31/2000 | |||
| ACAP Adrian College Faculty Union At-Large Representative | Member | 12/31/2000 | ||||
| Adrian College Planning Committee Secretary | Officer, Secretary | 12/31/2000 | ||||
| Global Issues Committee, Adrian College | Committee Member | 1/1/1998 | 12/31/2000 | |||
| Adrian College Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Alliance Faculty Mentor | 1/1/1998 | 12/31/2000 | ||||
| Women’s Leadership Day Planning Committee, Adrian College | Committee Member | 1/1/1998 | 12/31/2000 | |||
| Gender Issues Committee, Adrian College | Committee Member | 1/1/1998 | 12/31/2000 | |||
| McNair Faculty Mentor for Minority Students, Adrian College | 1/1/1999 | 12/31/2000 | ||||
| Freshman PACE Introduction to the College Experience Course Instructor, Adrian College | 1/1/1999 | 12/31/2000 | ||||
| Service Learning Committee, Adrian College | Committee Member | 12/31/1999 | ||||
| Co-Organizer, International Week, Adrian College | Program Organizer | 10/18/1999 | 10/22/1999 | |||
| International Week, Adrian College | Program Organizer | Michigan | United States | 10/18/1999 | 10/22/1999 | Local |
| Comparative Studies of Social Transformation Steering Committee, Graduate Student Liaison, University of Michigan | 1/1/1993 | 12/31/1995 | ||||
| Ostberliner Geschichtswerkstatt (East Berlin History Workshop) | Member | 1/1/1993 | 12/31/1995 | |||
| University of Michigan History Department Women’s Caucus Liaison | Committee Member | 1/1/1992 | 12/31/1993 |
Public
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Explorations into Science Technology and Math PTA Whole Child Committee Co-Chair | Committee Chair | New York | 9/1/2015 | Present | Local | |
| Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts Math Twice Exceptional w/Focus on ADHD Guiding Team | Committee Member | New York | Present | Local | ||
| New Explorations into Science Technology and Math Public School PTA Anti-Racism Committee | Committee Chair | New York | United States | 5/1/2020 | 12/31/2021 | |
| New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math (NEST+M) Pubilc School Whole Child Committee | Committee Member | New York | 11/1/2014 | 12/31/2015 | ||
| New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math (NEST+M) Public School Leadership Team School Culture Committee | Committee Member | New York | 3/19/2015 | 6/30/2015 | ||
| New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math (NEST+M) Enrichment Cluster Instructor for "Ancient Egypt Museum" | Weekly Instructor | New York | 4/17/2015 | 6/17/2015 | ||
| Baruch College and Leo Baeck Institute Public Conference on German-Jewish Immigration to New York City | Program Organizer | New York | United States | 5/5/2011 | 5/5/2011 | Local |
| “Cold War American Culture” Teacher Development Seminar, Facing History | Guest Speaker | 5/12/2007 | ||||
| Historians Against the War National Teach-In Project Coordinator: “Iraq: Anatomy of a Crisis, April 9/10, 2003” | Program Organizer | 4/9/2003 | 4/10/2003 |