Heide Fehrenbach Explained

Occupation:Historian
Spouse:David Buller
Awards:Guggenheim Fellow (2007)
Alma Mater:Rutgers University
Thesis Title:Cinema in democratizing Germany: the reconstruction of mass culture and national identity in the West, 1945-1960
Thesis Url:https://www.proquest.com/openview/450b6c1d110a69b7be0292c0bd014dc4/1
Thesis Year:1990
Discipline:History

Heide Fehrenbach is an American historian. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she studies the history of Germany, and she has authored the books Cinema in Democratizing Germany (1995), Race after Hitler (2005), and After the Nazi Racial State (2009) and co-edited the volumes Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations (1999) and (2015). She is Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) Department of History.[1]

Biography

Fehrenbach was born to Verizon worker Gladys Lucia (Kieselat) and sheet metal mechanic Herbert Frank Fehrenbach.[2] [3] She was raised in Pequannock Township, New Jersey,[4] where she became a New Jersey State Scholar in 1975.[5] She studied at Rutgers University, where she obtained her PhD in modern European history; her thesis Cinema in democratizing Germany: the reconstruction of mass culture and national identity in the West, 1945-1960 was supervised by Victoria de Grazia and Harold Poor.[6]

In 1990, Fehrenbach started worked at Colgate University,[1] where she later became assistant professor of history.[7] In 1998, she left Colgate and became Associate Professor of History at Emory University, remaining there until 2001.[1] [8] She later moved to Northern Illinois University (NIU) after her time at Emory.[1] In 2012, she was appointed a Board of Trustees Professor at NIU.[9]

Fehrenbach won the Conference Group for Central European History's 1997 award for best first book for her 1995 book Cinema in Democratizing Germany,[10] which focuses on the history of film in Germany after the end of World War II.[11] In 1999, she and Uta Poiger co-edited Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations, a volume on the global impact of Americanization.[12] In 2003, she wrote an article for Long Island newspaper Newsday drawing comparisons between the Western Allied invasion of Germany and the United States' then-ongoing invasion of Iraq, particularly the idea of post-war cultural identity in these countries.[13] She later published two books on race in Germany after World War II: Race after Hitler (2005) and, as one of four co-authors, After the Nazi Racial State (2009).[14] [15] In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[16] [17] She and Davide Rodogno co-edited the 2015 volume , part of the Cambridge University Press series Human Rights in History.[18]

At NIU, Fehrenbach teaches courses in areas such as history of Europe (particularly Germany) and film history.[1] In 2007, The Pantagraph reported that her books "were taught at universities around the world".[17]

Fehrenbach is married to philosopher David Buller, who is also a professor at NIU.[2] She lived in DeKalb, Illinois, as of 2020.[2] In September 2004, she participated in a rally protesting the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign nearby Dick Cheney's appearance at the NIU's Convocation Center.[19]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Heide Fehrenbach - NIU - Department of History . 2024-11-22 . Northern Illinois University.
  2. Web site: Gladys Fehrenbach Obituary (1926 - 2020) - Landing, NJ - The Star-Ledger . 2024-11-21 . Legacy.com.
  3. Web site: Herbert Fehrenbach Obituary (2012) - Pequannock, NJ - The Record/Herald News . 2024-11-21 . Legacy.com.
  4. News: 1963-12-23 . PUPILS STAGE CHRISTMAS PLAY . Paterson Evening News . 26 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1975-04-02 . Scholarship Winners Announced . Daily Record . 14 . Newspapers.com.
  6. Heide. Fehrenbach. Cinema in democratizing Germany: the reconstruction of mass culture and national identity in the West, 1945-1960. ProQuest. Rutgers University. 27959827.
  7. Web site: Heide Fehrenbach . 2024-11-22 . University of North Carolina Press.
  8. 1998-11-02 . New tenured faculty have variety of interests, experience . 2024-11-22 . Emory Report . 51 . 10.
  9. News: 2012-04-11 . NIU honors Board of Trustees Professors . The Midweek . 23 . Newspapers.com.
  10. 1997 . Report of the 1996 Prize Committee . 2024-11-22 . Conference Group for Central European History Newsletter . Spring 1997.
  11. Web site: Cinema in Democratizing Germany Heide Fehrenbach . 2024-11-22 . University of North Carolina Press.
  12. Web site: TRANSACTIONS, TRANSGRESSIONS, TRANSFORMATION . 2024-11-22 . Berghahn Books.
  13. News: In Germany, Help From the Cold War. Newsday. 2003-04-20. A27. Heide. Fehrenbach. Newspapers.com.
  14. Web site: Race after Hitler . 2024-11-22 . Princeton University Press.
  15. Web site: After the Nazi Racial State . 2024-11-22 . University of Michigan Press.
  16. Web site: Heide Fehrenbach . 2024-11-21 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  17. News: 2007-04-15 . History professor gets fellowship . The Pantagraph . B4 . Newspapers.com.
  18. Web site: Humanitarian Photography . 2024-11-22 . Cambridge University Press.
  19. News: Hernandez . Aracely . 2004-09-19 . Cheney appearance draws protests . The Daily Chronicle . 10 . Newspapers.com.
  20. McCormick . Richard W. . 1997 . Review of Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler . German Politics & Society . 15 . 4 (45) . 149–152 . 1045-0300 . JSTOR.
  21. Saunders . Thomas J. . 1996 . Review of Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler . The American Historical Review . 101 . 5 . 1571–1572 . 10.2307/2170258 . 0002-8762 . JSTOR.
  22. Daum . Andreas . 2002 . Review of Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations. American Culture in Western Europe and Japan . Historische Zeitschrift . 275 . 3 . 826–827 . 0018-2613 . JSTOR.
  23. Kater . Michael H. . 2002 . Review of Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan . Central European History . 35 . 3 . 456–458 . 0008-9389 . JSTOR.
  24. Barkin . Kenneth . 2009 . African Americans, Afro-Germans, White Americans, and Germans . The Journal of African American History . 94 . 2 . 253–265 . 1548-1867 . JSTOR.
  25. Bungert . Heike . 2006 . Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America . The Journal of American History . 93 . 2 . 581–581 . 10.2307/4486348 . 0021-8723 . JSTOR.
  26. Fenner . Angelica . 2008 . Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America . German Studies Review . 31 . 1 . 178–179 . 0149-7952 . JSTOR.
  27. Harsch . Donna . 2007 . Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America . The International History Review . 29 . 4 . 909–911 . 0707-5332 . JSTOR.
  28. Kundrus . Birthe . 2007 . Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America . Central European History . 40 . 2 . 379–382 . 0008-9389 . JSTOR.
  29. Mazón . Patricia . 2007 . Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America . The American Historical Review . 112 . 1 . 169–170 . 0002-8762 . JSTOR.
  30. Trabacca . Francesca . 2006 . Enfants et guerres . Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire . 89 . 136–137 . 0294-1759 . JSTOR.
  31. von Joeden-Forgey . Elisa . 2008 . After the Nazis, back to Blacks . Patterns of Prejudice . 42 . 2 . 10.1080/00313220801996154 . 0031-322X . Taylor and Francis Online.
  32. Gregor . Neil . 2010 . After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe . The American Historical Review . 115 . 5 . 1548–1549 . 10.1086/ahr.115.5.1548 . 0002-8762 . Oxford University Press.
  33. Timm . Annette F. . 2011 . Review of After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe . The Journal of Modern History . 83 . 1 . 224–226 . 10.1086/658040 . 0022-2801 . JSTOR.
  34. Web site: Mauad . Ana Maria . 2020-02-23 . Review of *Humanitarian Photography: A History* . 2024-11-21 . Society for US Intellectual History.
  35. Web site: Stornig . Katharina . 2016 . Review of Fehrenbach, Heide; Rodogno, Davide, Humanitarian Photography: A History . 2024-11-21 . H-Net . H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Review.

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