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Laura Hilton : Resumé

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Associate Professor, Department of History

Muskingum College

New Concord, OH 43762

Phone: 740/826-8291

Fax: 740/826-8357

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EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Ph.D., Modern European History, June 2001

Advisers: Alan D. Beyerchen, Birgitte Soland, Robin Judd

Dissertation Title: "Prisoners of Peace: Rebuilding Community, Identity and Nationality in Displaced Persons Camps in Germany, 1945-1952."

Fordham University, Bronx, NY

M.A., Early Modern European History, May 1993

Thesis: "The Magistracy of Strasbourg: The Struggle To Keep The Peace, 1524-1534.î

College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York

B.A., summa cum laude, History/Political Science, May 1991

Senior Thesis: "Hope and Despair: Resistance Movements within Nazi Germany."

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

Faculty Development Grant, Summer 2002, Summer 2004, Summer 2009

Muskingum University

The American Jewish Archives, Summer 1999

Loewenstein-Weiner Summer Research Fellowship

U.S. Army Military History Institute, Summer 1999

Advanced Research Grant

Graduate School, The Ohio State University, May 1999

Graduate School Alumni Research Award

Department of History, The Ohio State University, August ñ September 1998

Ruth Higgins Summer Research Fellowship

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), August 1997 - July 1998

Dissertation Research Fellowship

Fordham University, September 1991-August 1992

Presidential Fellowship

College of New Rochelle, August 1987-May 1991

Presidential Scholarship

AWARDS AND HONORS

William Oxley Thompson Award, Muskingum University, August 2008

Award for Outstanding Teaching, named in honor of an alumnus whose career combined teaching, ministry and service as president of Miami University and The Ohio State University.

Women’s Resource Center, Muskingum University, March 2006, 2007

Strong Woman Award

Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The Ohio State University, February 2001

Nominee (one of sixty-two nominees from a pool of 5,100 funded graduate students)

Office of International Studies, The Ohio State University, May 2000

The Phyllis Krumm Memorial International Scholarship

Department of History, The Ohio State University, May 1997

Andreas Dorpalen Award

PUBLICATIONS:

"The Jewish Communities in Frankfurt and Zeilsheim in Comparative Perspective.” We Are Here: New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany. Avinoam Patt and Michael Berkowitz (eds.) Wayne State University Press. (Forthcoming 2007)

“Cultural Nationalism in Exile: Polish and Latvian Displaced Persons,” The Historian, Volume 71(2), 2009: 280-317.

Conference Report: Panel 192 “Problems of Occupation: The Allies in Europe after World War II,” German Studies Association 31st Annual Conference, San Diego CA, October 4-7, 2007, published by H-German on 16 November 2007, accessible at: http://www.h-net.org/~german/resources/conf_reports_index.htm#

“Workshop Report: Forced Foreign Laborers, POWs and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich: Regional Studies and New Directions, USHMM, August 2003,” German History. Volume 23, No. 1, February 2005: 83-95.

“Pawns on a Chessboard? Polish DPs and Repatriation from the US Zone of Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949.” Beyond Camps and Forced Labour. Secolo Verlag, 2005: 90-102.

Encyclopedia of the First World War. Spencer C. Tucker (ed.) Entries on Battle of Amman (1918), India’s Role in the war and India’s Army, Lithuania, Ottoman Empire (Home Front), Palestine and Syria (Land Campaign 1914-1918), Romanian Army and Its Role in the war. ABC-Clio, 2005.

Encyclopedia of German American Relations. Entries on “S.S. St. Louis” and “Eugenics and Euthanasia.” ABC-Clio, 2005.

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression. Entries on Molly Dewson, Ethiopian War, Martha Gellhorn, Kristallnacht, and Dorothy Thompson. Macmillan Reference, 2004.

Encyclopedia of the Second World War. Spencer C. Tucker (ed.) Entries on the battle of Montelimar, biographical sketches on Wilhelm Adam and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the roles played by Estonia, India, Lithuania and Luxembourg in the war, and the production and use of chemical weapons. ABC-Clio, 2004.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans and Allies. Princeton University Press, Journal of the History of Sexuality, (forthcoming, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2011).

Ann Taylor Allen, Women in Twentieth Century Europe, Gender & History Series, Palgrave-Macmillan, German Studies Review, Volume 33, Issue 1, February 2010: 198-199.

Alfred Wetzler, Escape from Hell: The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol, Berghahn Books, for Jewish Culture and History, (forthcoming).

Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn., Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, for Jewish Culture and History, (forthcoming).

William L. Hitchcock, The Bitter Road to Freedom, for H-German, (http://www.h-net.msu.edu), May 2009.

Stefan Schröder, Displaced Persons im Landkreis und in der Stadt Münster, 1945-1951, for H-German, (http://www.h-net.msu.edu), July 2008.

Harold James. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. In Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Volume 20, Issue 1. April 2006: 114-117.

Elizabeth Harvey. Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization and Ella E. Schneider Hilton. Displaced Person: A Girl’s Life in Russia, Germany, and America. In The Journal of Women’s History. Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2006: 212-218.

Randall E. Newnham. Deutsche Mark Diplomacy: Positive Economic Sanctions in German-Russian Relations. In The Russian Review. Volume 63, Issue 4, October 2004: 728-729.

Frank B. Tipton. A History of Modern Germany Since 1815. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. In H-German (http://www.h-net.msu.edu). September 2004.

Katherine R. Jolluck. Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union During the Second World War. In The Russian Review. Volume 62, Issue 4, October 2003: 661-662.

Barbara Marshall. The New Germany and Migration in Europe. In German Studies Review. Volume 25, Issue 3, October 2002: >> 649-650.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“Rumors, Perceptions and Reality: The Struggle over Food in Postwar Germany,” The German Studies Association, Washington, DC, 8-11 October 2009.

“Examining the Slave Trade through the Eyes of a Dutch Slave Trader,” World History Association, Salem, Massachusetts, 25-28 June 2009.

“Statelessness and Jewish DPs in the Postwar Period,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York City, New York, 24-26 April 2009.

“The Struggle to Re-establish Law and Order: An Examination of the Participation of Displaced Persons in Economic Crimes in Postwar Germany,” The German Studies Association Meeting, San Diego, California, 4-7 October 2007.

“How Anti-Communist Are You? An Examination of the Treatment of Polish and Latvian DPs in the U.S. Occupation Zone of Germany,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, 18 November 2006.

“Black and Grey Markets in Postwar Germany: The Shift from Normalcy to Criminality,” The German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 30 September 2006.

"Identity Formation and Immigration: How Anti-Communism and Anti-Semitism Played Dual Roles in Determining DP Resettlement from Postwar Europe." Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, Imperial War Museum, London, U.K. January 2006.

"The Re-Shaping of Jewish Community and Identity in Zeilsheim and Frankfurt in 1945." U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Workshop on Survival, Displacement and Struggle: Jewish Displaced Persons in the Wake of the Holocaust. Washington, DC. July 2005.

"Statelessness and Citizenship: Lessons from the Second World War." The Southern Historical Association, Memphis, TN (forthcoming November 2004).

"UNRRA, Religion and Relief: Mennonite Sea Cowboys and Post WWII Poland." Co-Presenter, International Oral History Conference, Rome, Italy, June 2004.

"The Black Market in Germany: Interaction Among Jewish DPs, Germans and Americans." The American Historical Association. January 2004.

"The Black Market in Postwar Germany: Probing the Realities and Stereotypes of the Interaction among Jewish Displaced Persons, Germans and Americans." German Studies Association. September 2003.

"Interaction among Germans, Occupation Authorities, Former Forced Laborers and Former Slave Laborers in the Immediate Postwar Period." U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Workshop on Foreign Forced Laborers, Prisoners of War and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich: Regional Studies and New Research. August 2003.

"Pawns on a Chessboard? The Responses of Polish DPs to the Pressure to Accept Repatriation from the US Zone of Germany, 1945-1949." Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference, Imperial War Museum, London. January 2003.

"From an Honorable Burden to Just a Burden: The Shifting Attitudes of the U.S. Military and Government Toward Jewish DPs in Postwar Germany and Their Impact on Germans" German Historical Institute: German-American Encounters after World War II and the Holocaust. September 2002.

"The Struggle over Resources: Displaced Persons, the Occupation Army and the Germans" The Historical Society, May 2002.

"Recreation of National Identity in Diaspora: Were Latvian and Polish Displaced Persons Camps in Germany Imagined Communities?" The American Historical Association Meeting. January 2002.

"Identities within Diaspora: The Migration of Jewish and Latvian DPís from Germany to the United States." Race, Ethnicity and Migration Conference. November 2000.

"The She'erit Hapleytah (Surviving Remnant) in Frankfurt-am-Main and The DP Camp at Zeilsheim: Rebuilding Jewish Communities." American Jewish Archives. December 1999.

"Displaced Persons and the Redefinition of Cultural Nationalism in the Postwar Era, 1945-1952." Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. November 1999.

"Civil Government and Displaced Persons: Challenges, Successes and Failures of the U.S. Army During the Occupation of Germany Following the Second World War." History, the Military and Society, Sixth Meeting. November 1999.

“How Anti-Communist Are You? An Examination of the Treatment of Polish and Latvian DPs in the U.S. Occupation Zone of Germany.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, 18 November 2006.

“Black and Grey Markets in Postwar Germany: The Shift from >> Normalcy to Criminality,” The German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 30 September 2006.

“Identity Formation and Immigration: How Anti-Communism >> and Anti-Semitism Played Dual Roles in Determining DP Resettlement from Postwar Europe.” Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, Imperial War Museum, London, U.K., January 2006.

“Statelessness and Citizenship: Lessons from the Second World War.” The Southern Historical Association, Memphis, TN, November 2004.

Co-Presenter. “UNRRA, Religion and Relief: Mennonite Sea Cowboys and Post WWII Poland.” International Oral History Conference, Rome, Italy, June 2004.

“The Black Market in Germany: Interaction Among Jewish DPs, Germans and Americans.” The American Historical Association. Washington, DC. January 2004.

“The Black Market in Postwar Germany: Probing the Realities and Stereotypes of the Interaction among Jewish Displaced Persons, Germans and Americans.” New Orleans, LA. German Studies Association. September 2003.

“Pawns on a Chessboard? The Responses of Polish DPs to the Pressure to Accept Repatriation from the US Zone of Germany, 1945-1949.” Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference, Imperial War Museum, London, U.K. January 2003.

“The Struggle over Resources: Displaced Persons, the Occupation Army and the Germans” The Historical Society, Atlanta, GA. May 2002.

“Recreation of National Identity in Diaspora: Were Latvian and Polish Displaced Persons Camps in Germany Imagined Communities?” The American Historical Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. January 2002.

“Identities within Diaspora: The Migration of Jewish and Latvian DP’s from Germany to the United States.” Race, Ethnicity and Migration Conference. Minneapolis, MN. November 2000.

“The She'erit Hapleytah (Surviving Remnant) in Frankfurt-am-Main and The DP Camp at Zeilsheim: Rebuilding Jewish Communities.” American Jewish Archives. Cincinnati, OH. December 1999.

“Displaced Persons and the Redefinition of Cultural Nationalism in the Postwar Era, 1945-1952.” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. Fort Worth, TX. November 1999.

“Civil Government and Displaced Persons: Challenges, Successes and Failures of the U.S. Army During the Occupation of Germany Following the Second World War.” History, the Military and Society, Sixth Meeting. Columbus, OH. November 1999.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:

Commentator for Panel: “Problems of Occupation: The Allies in Europe after World War II” at the German Studies Association Meeting, 4-7 October 2007, San Diego, California.

Chair and Discussant, “Resisting and Remembering the Holocaust,” the Ohio Academy of History, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, 8 April 2006.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

The Re-Shaping of Jewish Community and Identity in Zeilsheim and Frankfurt in 1945.” U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Workshop on Survival, Displacement and Struggle: Jewish Displaced Persons in the Wake of the Holocaust. Washington, DC. July 2005.

“Interaction among Germans, Occupation Authorities, Former Forced Laborers and Former Slave Laborers in the Immediate Postwar Period.” U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Workshop on Foreign Forced Laborers, Prisoners of War and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich: Regional Studies and New Research. Washington, DC. August 2003.

“From an Honorable Burden to Just a Burden: The Shifting Attitudes of the U.S. Military and Government Toward Jewish DPs in Postwar Germany and Their Impact on Germans” German Historical Institute: German-American Encounters after World War II and the Holocaust. Washington, DC. September 2002.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, American Association of University Women

Member, American Historical Association

Member, German Studies Association

Member, Ohio Academy of History

Member, Curriculum Advisory Committee, Ohio Council on Holocaust Education

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, Muskingum University Chapter

Co-Advisor, Lambda Sigma

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