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Mary Nolan's Teaching and Research Interests

Research Interests:

I began my career as a German social and labor historian and wrote my first book on German Social Democracy and the social roots and political limits of working-class radicalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. My second book, Visions of Modernity, explored American-European relationships and exchanges through the study of Americanism and Americanization. This work, which focused on the Weimar Republic, examined discourses about and transformations of the economy, work, the household and gender. I regularly write articles on labor and social history in Nazi Germany and on controversies about the memory of the Third Reich. I have co-edited Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, which is a collection of essays on how different societies remembered and repressed the memory of war crimes. I have recently written several articles on European anti-Americanism and American anti-Europeanism past and present.  I am currently writing a book on Europe and America in the Twentieth Century for Cambridge University Press.

Teaching Interests:

I teach a broad range of courses on the Cold War as global struggle, on Modern European history, and on the history of women and gender in Europe and globally.  I have also team taught the required graduate Approaches to History course. Most of my courses are comparative and transnational and I am committed to moving beyond the nation state framework in both my teaching and research.

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