Herzog, Dagmar 1961-

PERSONAL:

Born July 12, 1961. Education: Duke University, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1983; Brown University, M.A., 1985, Ph.D., 1991.

ADDRESSES:

Office—History Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 5th Ave., Rm. 5111, New York, NY 10016. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Educator and writer. Brown University, Providence, RI, teaching assistant, 1985-87, 1988-90, instructor, 1990-91; Michigan State University, Lansing, assistant professor, 1991-97, associate professor, 1997-2005; Harvard University, Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow, 1993-94; City University of New York, New York, NY, Graduate Center, professor and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, 2005—. Former member of the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton University, 2002-03.

MEMBER:

German Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Recipient of research grants, including a fellowship from Brown University, 1979; DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1987-88; Michigan State University, International Research Fund, 1991, All-University Research Grant, 1992, 1993; Holocaust Educational Foundation, curriculum development grant, 1994-96; National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend, 1997; Social Science Research Council Sexuality Research Fellowship, 1998-99; Cornell University, DAAD Summer Seminar on Gender and Sexuality in German Cultural Studies, 1999; American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, 2002-03; Ford Foundation Grant, 2003-05; Initiative Geisteswissenschaften, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Stipendum (with Daniel Fulda, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, and Till van Rahden), 2005-06.

WRITINGS:

Lessons and Legacies, Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL), 1991.

Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Prerevolutionary Baden, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1996.

(Editor and author of introduction) Sexuality and German Fascism, Berghahn Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2005.

(Editor, with Gunter Bischof and Anton Pelinka) Sexuality in Austria, Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, NJ), 2007.

Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics, Basic Books (New York, NY), 2008.

(Editor, with Daniel Fuda, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, and Till van Rahden, and contributor) Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg, Wallstein (Göttingen, Germany), 2008.

(Editor and author of introduction) Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century, Palgrave MacMillan (New York, NY), 2008.

Contributor of articles to books, including German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic, edited by Jan-Werner Müller, Palgrave MacMillan (New York, NY), 2003; Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe, edited by Angelica Fenner and Eric Weitz, Palgrave MacMillan (New York, NY), 2004; Between Marx and Coca Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980, edited by Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried, Berghahn Books (Oxford, England), 2005; Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, edited by John K. Roth, Berghahn Books (New York, NY), 2005; Wo 1968 liegt: Reform und Revolte in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, edited by Christina von Hodenberg and Detlef Siegfried, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttingen, Germany), 2006; Die Gegenwart Gottes in der modernen Gesellschaft: Transzendenz und religiöse Vergemeinschaftung in Deutschland, edited by Michael Geyer and Lucian Hölscher, Wallstein (Göttingen, Germany), 2006; German History from the Margins, edited by Neil Gregor, Nils Roemer, and Mark Roseman, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 2006; Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity: Essays on Modern German History, edited by Frank Biess, Berghahn Books (New York, NY), 2007; Socialist Modern, edited by Paul Betts and Katherine Pence, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2008; Frauengesundheit, Migration und Kultur in einer globalisierten Welt, edited by Theda Borde and Matthias David, Mabuse-Verlag (Frankfurt, Germany), 2008.

Contributor to scholarly journals and periodicals, including L'Homme, Eurozine, Queer Lectures, Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, Sexuality & Culture, German History, History and Memory, Cicero, ProFamilia Magazin, and Critical Inquiry. Author of a weekly column on the U.S. elections for Die Tageszeitung, Berlin, Germany. Member of the editorial boards of Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, WSQ, German History, and German Politics and Society.

SIDELIGHTS:

Educator and writer Dagmar Herzog conducts research on how religion and secularization have affected social and political developments in modern Europe. She has taught history at Michigan State University and the City University of New York, and was a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard University. She has contributed to numerous periodicals and journals related to the study of history. Herzog also has served on the executive committee of the German Studies Association.

In 1996, Herzog published Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-revolutionary Baden. The book studies the politics and ethics of German liberal- ism in the early nineteenth century, specifically concentrating on attitudes toward Jews and women. Using traditional methodology and sources to build her case, the author argues that religious issues were in fact important in the politics of the day, and that liberals were very concerned with the issues of marriage and sexuality from 1820 to 1848. At this time, disputes about certain issues led German Catholics to part ways with the Roman Catholic Church. Overall, readers and critics responded positively to Intimacy and Exclusion, citing its fresh perspective on this point in history and well-researched arguments to support her thesis. Herzog provides readers with "insightful and persuasive reflections," wrote English Historical Review contributor Christopher Clark. Others found the book a welcome addition to other literature about this subject. Intimacy and Exclusion is "an important contribution," noted Judith J. Hurwich in a review for the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

In 2004, Herzog published her next book, Sexuality and German Fascism, which examines the role of and views toward sexuality in fascist Germany. Herzog served as editor of the volume, pulling together articles from prominent scholars to flesh out the often conflicting images and conceptions associated with sexuality during this time. Contributors include Julia Roos, Stefan Micheler, Patricia Szobar, Birthe Kundrus, Anita Grossman, Erik Jensen, and Geoffrey Giles, and often draw from personal case studies that are often hard to find in other research. Altogether, the essays argue that sexuality was indeed alive and well in Nazi Germany, making the book an interesting counterpoint to many other books written about the subject. Critics cited this as why Sexuality and German Fascism is such a welcome addition to research on this subject. The book is a "significant departure from the traditional view" of sexuality in fascist Germany, wrote Andrew Wackerfuss in a review for the German Quarterly.

The following year, Herzog followed up Sexuality and German Fascism with Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany. The book in a way picks up where Sexuality and German Fascism left off, dissecting recent scholarship on the history of German sexuality and politics. Drawing from other sources, such as advice literature, sexual surveys, newspaper articles, and the writing of sexologists and medical professionals, she gives context to recent events in German social, political, and cultural history. Herzog's first chapter goes back to material covered in her previous book, giving a recap of sexuality in Nazi Germany; the second chapter focuses on the postwar period from 1945 to 1952, when there was a sharp rise in discussion of sexuality, a kind of sexual liberality. Herzog then covers the mid-1950s and 1960s, which were dominated by a shift toward sexual conservatism. Again, critics responded favorably to Herzog's work, noting its depth of research and well-written arguments. Sex after Fascism is "brilliant, deeply researched, and beautifully written," wrote BookForum Web site contributor Thomas Laqueur. For other critics, it was Herzog's comprehensive look at an important time in history that makes the book a welcome addition. Sex after Fascism provides a "panoramic sweep of German history," stated Jane Slaughter in a review for Labour/Le Travail.

Herzog also edited, along with Gunter Bischof and Anton Pelinka, 2007's Sexuality in Austria, and wrote 2008's Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics, which focuses on what Herzog believes is a second sexual revolution in the United States.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, October, 1997, James C. Albisetti, review of Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-revolutionary Baden, p. 1181; April, 2006, Atina Grossmann, review of Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany, p. 580.

Canadian Journal of History, April, 1997, Karl Wegert, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 91.

Central European History, January 1, 1998, Marion W. Gray, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 126; June, 2006, Edward Ross Dickinson, review of Sexuality and German Fascism, p. 327.

Choice, September, 1996, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 187.

Church History, March, 1998, David J. Diephouse, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 181.

English Historical Review, September, 1998, Christopher Clark, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 1012.

German Quarterly, winter, 2007, Andrew Wackerfuss, review of Sexuality and German Fascism, p. 126.

German Studies Review, May, 2006, Bjorn Krondorfer, review of Sex after Fascism, p. 424.

Historian, fall, 2006, Mary Nolan, review of Sex after Fascism, p. 630.

Journal of European Studies, December, 2007, Joachim Whaley, review of Sex after Fascism, p. 440.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, summer, 1997, Judith J. Hurwich, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 124.

Journal of Modern History, June, 2000, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 453; June, 2007, Elizabeth Heneman, review of Sex after Fascism, p. 479.

Journal of Religious History, February, 1998, Helmut Walser Smith, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 112.

Journal of the History of Sexuality, October, 1997, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 316.

Labour/Le Travail, spring, 2006, Jane Slaughter, review of Sex after Fascism, p. 243.

Modernism/Modernity, April, 2007, Michael Hau, review of Sex after Fascism, p. 378.

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2005, review of Sexuality and German Fascism, p. 150; February, 2008, review of Intimacy and Exclusion. Social History, May, 1997, Tony LaVopa, review of Intimacy and Exclusion, p. 236.

ONLINE

BookForum,http://www.bookforum.com/ (May 1, 2008), Thomas Laqueur, review of Sex after Fascism.

CUNY Graduate Center,http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ (April 7, 2008), author profile.

Eurozine,http://www.eurozine.com/ (April 7, 2008), author profile.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online,http://www.h-net.org/ (January, 2006), Ann Taylor Allen, review of Sex after Fascism; June, 2007, Anna Hajkova, review of Lessons and Legacies.