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Stephen Scala <sjscala@gmail.com> George Mason University |
| List Affiliations: | Reviewer for H-German |
| Reviews: | Demolishing the "Myth of Silence" |
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Bio: PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS September 2010-present Adjunct Assistant Professor, George Mason University September 2010-present Intelligence Historian, SAIC February-August 2010 Researcher, The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. EDUCATION University of Maryland, College Park, December 2009 PhD, History Dissertation: “Understanding the Class Enemy: Foreign Policy Expertise in East Germany” Committee members: Jeffery Herf (advisor), Michael David-Fox, Bernd Schaefer, John Lampe, Vladimir Tismăneanu University of Maryland, College Park, December 2006 MA, History Major field: Modern Europe Minor field: Political Culture and Intellectual History University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 2003 BA, History, Latin Literature, comprehensive honors Principal advisor: Laurence Dickey Senior thesis: “Arnold Ruge and the Politicization of Young Hegelian Thought” Moscow International University, June-August 2004 Intensive language course and home stay Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, February-July 2002 Semester abroad RESEARCH FIELDS Political culture in modern Central and Eastern Europe (primary focus: Germany; secondary foci: Poland and Russia); intellectuals and dictatorship; perception and reception; Eastern European borderlands; foreign policy; transnationalism; intellectuals and modernity; violence; Holocaust; memory TEACHING FIELDS Europe since the French Revolution; modern Germany; Poland and the Soviet Union; history of Communism; political violence and modernity; intellectual history and political culture; international history of Europe; comparative and transnational history HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS December 2009 Designated Commencement Speaker, Department of History, University of Maryland October 2009 Recipient, Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Maryland, College of Arts and Humanities September 2009 Participant, Summer School “New Approaches to Political History: Writing British and German Contemporary History,” German Historical Institute London September- Guest Researcher, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Free University of December 2008 Berlin October 2008 Recipient, Goldhaber Travel Award, University of Maryland Graduate School September 2007- Guest Researcher, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Berlin August 2008 2007-2008 Recipient, University of Maryland Department of History Dissertation Award 2007 Recipient, University of Maryland Department of History Research & Travel Grant 2006 Recipient, University of Maryland Department of History Prospectus Development Grant June 2006 Participant, Summer Archival Seminar in Germany, German Historical Institute Washington DC June 2004 Recipient, Foreign Language Fellowship of the American Council of Teachers of Russian 2003-2004 Fellow, University of Maryland Graduate School, History Department May 2003 Member, Phi Beta Kappa May 2003 Recipient, University of Wisconsin Slaughter Prize for Achievement in the Latin Major September 2002 Recipient, University of Wisconsin Earl D. Johnson Merit Scholarship May 2002 Recipient, University of Wisconsin Andrew Bergman Undergraduate Writing Prize in History CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS Commentator on “Synesius: Mapping a Philosophical Republic of Letters,” Graduate Colloquium, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, December 1, 2009 “East German New Thinking? Transnationalization, Conceptual Change, and Institutional Stasis in GDR Foreign Policy Expertise,” Ninth Annual Aleksanteri Conference “Cold War Interactions Reconsidered,” Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Helsinki, October 31, 2009 “East German New Thinking? The Impact of Transnationalization on Foreign Policy Expertise in the GDR,” Summer School “New Approaches to Political History: Writing British and German Contemporary History,” German Historical Institute London, September 12, 2009 Commentator on “Forms and Ideas of the ‘Political’ in Citizens’ Letters to Willy Brandt,” Workshop “New Approaches to Political History: Writing British and German Contemporary History,” German Historical Institute London, September 12, 2009. “Creating a New Socialist Diplomacy: The Institutional and Conceptual Beginnings of East German Foreign Policy Expertise, 1945-1958,” Graduate Colloquium, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, March 30, 2009 “Understanding the Class Enemy: Foreign Policy Expertise in the GDR,” Panel: “Cold War Politics and the German Question: Ostpolitik, US-Polish Relations, and East German Foreign Policy,” Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, St. Paul, October 3, 2008 “Den Klassenfeind verstehen: Außenpolitische Experten der DDR,” Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte, Dr. Paul Nolte, Freie Universität Berlin, May 22, 2008 “Den Klassenfeind verstehen: Außenpolitische Experten der DDR,” Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Dr. Hermann Wentker, Berlin, March 11, 2008 “Ideology, Intellectuals, and the Emergence of Reform Socialism in the Soviet Union: Problemy mira i sotsializma during the Thaw,” First Annual History Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, February 10, 2006 TEACHING EXPERIENCE (all courses, unless otherwise noted, were taught at the University of Maryland, College Park) Instructor, “Political Violence and Modernity,” spring semester 2009 and spring semester 2010, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Instructor, “The Two Germanys and the Cold War,” January term 2009 Instructor, “Historical Research and Methods Seminar: The Cold War in Europe from the End of the Second World War through the Construction of the Berlin Wall,” spring semester 2007 Teaching Assistant, “The Medieval World,” fall semester 2009 Teaching Assistant, “Europe in the Twentieth Century,” spring semester 2009 Teaching Assistant, “Modern Military History, 1494-1815,” fall semester 2006 Teaching Assistant, “The Holocaust of European Jewry,” spring semester 2006 Teaching Assistant, “History of the Jewish People I,” fall semester 2005 Teaching Assistant, “History of the Jewish People II,” spring semester 2005 Teaching Assistant, “Modern Europe: 1789–Present,” fall semester 2004 PUBLICATIONS “Fostering a ‘Convergence with Reality’: East German Foreign Policy Experts’ Contacts with the West,” in Cold War Interactions Reconsidered, 2 vols., eds. Merja Suomi et al. (Helsinki: Kikimora, forthcoming) IN PREPARATION Understanding the Class Enemy: Foreign Policy Expertise in East Germany (revision of dissertation for publication) “East German New Thinking? Foreign Policy Expertise in the GDR and the Second Cold War” (article for a professional journal) „Die Beseitigung ‘einer parallelen politisch-ideologischen Situation zum Fall Havemanns’: Rationalisierung zwecks Unterordnung am Deutschen Wirtschaftsinstitut der DDR“ (article for a professional journal) LANGUAGES OF RESEARCH German: Advanced reading and speaking ability Russian: Advanced reading and speaking ability Polish: Advanced reading, intermediate speaking ability French: Advanced reading, intermediate speaking ability Yiddish: Advanced reading ability OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Fall Semester 2009 Graduate Representative, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, Department of History, University of Maryland July 2009 Freelance translator (German to English), Cambridge University Press September 2005-August 2007 Coordinator, German Studies Directory, German Historical Institute, Washington DC Responsibilities included: Administration of on-line directory with approximately 1,500 entries, German-to-English translation, co-organization of lectures, copy-editing, proofreading, co-editing of major reference guide North American History in Europe Academic Year 2006-2007 Graduate Representative, Executive Committee, Department of History, University of Maryland, June-August 2005 Intern, German Historical Institute, Washington DC PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association German Studies Association American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies |
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