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Felstiner, Mary
mf@sfsu.edu
MARY FELSTINER, Visiting Professor of History, teaches The Holocaust for undergraduates and graduates in spring 2008. Graduate of Harvard (B.A.) , Columbia (M.A.) , and Stanford (Ph.D.) she is the author of To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era (HarperCollins, 1994; University of California, 1997), which was awarded the American Historical Association Prize in Women's History, and Out of Joint: A Private & Public Story of Arthritis (American Lives Series, University of Nebraska, 2005). As longtime Professor of History at San Francisco State University, she has taught the history of genocide, biography, and women's history.
Course:
History 137/337 The Holocaust
Kahan, Michael
mkahan@stanford.edu
Phone: 724-7575
Office: 120-224
Michael Kahan has been the associate director of the Program on Urban Studies at Stanford since 2003. He received his BA in history from Yale University and his PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently preparing a book manuscript based on his dissertation, which is entitled “Pedestrian Matters: Contested Meanings and Uses of Philadelphia’s Streets, 1850s – 1920s.” He teaches introductory classes and advanced seminars in the Urban Studies program; his research and teaching interests include the history of public space, urban reform, urban poverty, and childhood.
Klein, Martin
Martin Klein received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964. He has taught at Berkeley, Lovanium university in the Congo and for 29 years, at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively on slavery and the slave trade within Africa. Among his books are Women and Slavery in Africa (Wisconsin 1983), edited with Claire Robertson and Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern Asia and Africa (Wisconsin 1993). His Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (Cambridge 1998) was a finalist for the Herskovits prize of the African Studies Association. Since then, he has been writing mostly on comparative slavery and hopes to eventually produce a book that looks at transitions in slave systems world-wide. He is also working with Richard Roberts on a history of 20th century Africa.
Knezevic, Jovana
knezevic@stanford.edu
Phone: 723-2674
Office: 200-213
Jovana L. Knezevic is Acting Assistant Professor of East European History at Stanford. She completed her Ph.D. in History at Yale University in 2006. She is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her dissertation entitled, The Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Belgrade during the First World War: Battles at the Home Front, which examines the complex network of relationships that emerges between the co-existing occupying and occupied populations through their daily interaction in the economic, social, and cultural institutions of a metropolitan community. It analyzes how this interaction is motivated by the exigencies that war places on these respective groups, and the implication it has for the conduct and experience of war. Knezevic’s research interests include the experience of civilians in modern warfare, belligerent occupation, war in the Balkans, and the social and cultural history of the First World War.
Courses:
History 226E The Creation and Destruction of Yugoslavia-5 units, Aut
History 226G/326G: Civilians and War in Modern Europe – 5 units, Winter
History 226F/326F: Nationalism in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918 – 5 units, Spring
History 126: History of the Balkans, 1804 to the present, - 5 units Spring
Patenaude, Bertrand
patenaude@hoover.stanford.edu
Bertrand M. Patenaude is the author of A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives (Stanford University Press, 2006), a generously illustrated large-format book featuring rare documents, photographs, posters, and artifacts from the Hoover Archives at Stanford. His previous book, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002), won the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize and the 2004 Uncommon Book Award. A research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at Stanford University, Patenaude is the editor of several books on Soviet studies, including The Russian Revolution and Stalin and Stalinism. His documentary film credits include associate producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS film Inside the USSR and of the Frontline documentary A Journey to Russia, and story editor of Stalin’s Ghost, an NBC News Special Report. He was educated at Boston College and the University of Vienna and received his PhD in history from Stanford in 1987.
Courses:
History 123: Reform and Revolution in Modern Russia, 1856-2008
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