TROY PADDOCK, HISTORY

 

BOOKS

A Call to Arms:  Propaganda, Public Opinion and Newspapers in the Great War (Praeger 2004). I edited the work and wrote the introduction, conclusion and the chapter on Germany.

 

Completed manuscript, "Creating the Slavic Peril: Education, the Public Sphere and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914." 

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

“Rethinking Friedrich Meinecke’s Historicism," accepted by Rethinking History. Appearing in vol.

10:1 January 2006.

 

“Gedachtes Wohnen: Heidegger and Cultural Geography” Philosophy and Geography vol. 7:2 (2004) 239-253. A reply to a critique of this article was also published in the same volume, “In defense of homology and history: a response to Allen,” 259-260.

 

"Dobra ruska miza, slaba ruska miza - Thomas Mann in nemški orientalizem", Borec, Vol. LVI/2004, No. 617-620, pp. 12-23.

 

Still Stuck at Sevastopol: The Depiction of Russia during the Russo-Japanese War & the Beginning

of World War I in the German Press." German History, 16:3 (1998) 358-376.

 

"Plenty of Barbarians, but No Bird's Milk: The Depiction of Russia in German School Books,

1890-1914." Internationale Schulbuchforschung. 20:1 (1998) 35-50.

 

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS IN PUBLISHED BOOKS:

“Land Makes the Man: Topography and National Character in German School Books,”  in Lived Topographies and their Mediating Factors, Gary Backhaus and John Murungi, eds. (Lexington Books, 2005) 77-92.

           

"Historiker als Politiker" in Russen und Rußland aus deutscher Sicht, Band 4: 19./20. Jahrhundert:

Von der Reichsgründung bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, Mechthild Keller ed., in the series West-

östliche Spiegelungen, Lew Kopelew, series editor,  Munich:  Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2000. This

essay is reprinted in Zauber und Abwehr. Zur Kulturgeschichte der deutsch-russischen eziehungen,

Dagmar Hermann and Mechthild Keller, eds. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003. 

 

BOOK REVIEWS: (6 Most recent)

Historismus und moderne Welt: Erich Marcks (1861-1938) in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft, Jens Nordalm.  Forthcoming on H-German review.

Imaging a Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945, Thomas M. Lekan. Reviewed in History: Review of New Books 33:1 (2004) 26.

 

Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity, Anthony D. Smith. Reviewed in History:Review of New

Books 32:4 (2004) 168.

 

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914, Terence Zuber.  Reviewed in History: Reviews of New Books 31:4 (2003) 157.

 

Das Kaiserreich am Abgrund. Die Daily-Telegraph-Affäre und das Hale-Interview von  1908, Peter Winzen. Reviewed in German Studies Review XXVI:3 (2003) 642-43.

 

Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany, Andrew Lees. Reviewed in German Studies Review XXVI:2 (2003) 403-4.

 

CONFERENCE  PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

“Reading Space: The Symbolism of Newspapers.” Presented at the inaugural conference of the International Association

for the Study of Environment, Space and Place at Towson University, April 29-May 1, 2005.

 

“Spatial Relations and the Struggle for Space: Friedrich Ratzel and Education,” to be presented in Leipzig, Germany

at a conference commemorating the 100^th anniversary of Friedrich Ratzel’s death, November 2004.

           

“Not like us: the Depiction of Germans and non-Germans in German Schoolbooks from the Kaiserreich to the Third

Reich.” Presented at the conference Exploring Cultural Perspectives sponsored by the International Cultural

Research Network in Florence, Italy, July 2004.

 

“Chronscapes/Chronos Escapes: a exploration of historical time.” Presented at the Geophilia Confernece (formerly the Society for Philosophy and Geography) at Towson University, April 30- May 2, 2004.

 

“Good Russian Table, Bad Russian Table: Thomas Mann and a German Orientalism,” Presented at the European Social Science History Conference in Berlin, Germany, March 2004.   

 

“Land Makes the Man: Topography and National Character in German School Books.”  Presented at fifth annual

Society for Philosophy and Geography Conference at Towson University, April 25-27, 2003.

 

"Unsere Fremden:The Depiction of Ethnic non-Germans from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich." Presented at German

History from the Margins sponsored by the German History Society in Southampton England, September 13-15, 2002.

 

“Gedachtes Wohnen Part 2, or It works for other parts of Heidegger, too.”  Presented at the fourth annual conference for

the Society for Philosophy and Geography at Towson University, April 26-28, 2002.

 

 “Friedrich Meinecke and the Limits of Historicism.”  Presented at the American Historical Association Convention in

Boston, January 2001.

 

Grounding Space: Heidegger and Cultural Geography.  Presented at the second annual conference for the Society for Philosophy and Geography at Towson University, April 28-30, 2000.  This is an extended version of the paper presented at the SHA and NEHA.

 

Grounding Space: Heidegger and Cultural Geography. Presented at the Spring 2000 meeting of the New England Historical Association at Tufts University, April 15, 2000.

 

“A German Orientalism:  German Perceptions of Russia before the First World War.”  Presented at

the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies in Chapel Hill, NC from March

19-21, 1998.

 

“Grounding Space:  Heidegger and Cultural Geography.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Birmingham, Alabama from 11-14 November, 1998.

 

"Hüter des Artikels 48: Carl Schmitt und das Problem der Präsidental-Macht in der Weimarer

Republik."  Presented at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, May 1997.

 

"Plenty of Barbarians, but No Bird's Milk: The Depiction of Russia in  German School Books,

1890-1914." Presented at the German Studies Association Conference, September 1995, in

Chicago.

           

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

CSU Research Grant recipient.  Summer 2001.  Received funding to conduct research in the Federal Republic of Germany.

 

Fellow at the Summer Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, Summer 1999.

 

SCSU Curriculum Development Grant, to develop a course on the Holocaust. Summer 1999.

 

 

CSU Research Grant recipient. Summer 1999.  Received funding to conduct research in the Federal Republic of Germany.

 

Gastforscher (Visiting Researcher), Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, October

1996-July 1997.

 

DAAD Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart, Fall 1996.

(Received the same grant in 1995 but declined because of previous teaching commitments.)

 

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1993-1994.

 

Rosenberg Fellowship for European History, 1993-1994.

 

Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, 1991-1992 academic year, for dissertation research at the Institut für

Zeitungsforschung, Dortmund and other German archives.

 

Sather Fellowship, 1990-1991.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

19^TH & 20^TH Century German History/ European intellectual history

 

CURRENT/FUTURE RESEARCH PROJECTS:

 

Creating the Slavic Peril: Race, Ethnicity and National Identity in Imperial Germany. (Under consideration for publication).

 

DISSERTATION TITLE:

 

German Perceptions of Russia before World War I, 1890-1914.

 

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D:

 

University of California at Berkeley