Mary Nolan
Professor of History; Lillian Vernon Professorship for Teaching Excellence
Columbia University, PhD 1980
Office Address:
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 525
Email:
Phone:
212.998.8609
Field of Study:
Modern Europe
Areas of Research/Interest:
Europe and America in the Twentieth Century, Cold War, Modern German history; European women's history.
Curriculum Vitae
Bio
Mary (Molly) Nolan was trained as a Modern German historian and has written on German social and labor history and on the politics of Holocaust and World War II memory in Germany. Her research now focuses on twentieth-century European-American relations, economic, political and cultural. She has written on anti-Americanism and Americanization in Europe as well as on American anti-Europeanism. Her next project involves the pivotal decade of the 1970s. She teaches classes on the Cold War in Europe and America, Women and Gender in Modern Europe, Human Rights and Humanitarian Interventions, and Consumption and Consumer Culture. She is on the editorial boards of International Labor and Working-class History and of Politics and Society.
Selected Works:
Books:
The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890-2010. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace, co-edited with Monika Kraus, Michael Palm, Andrew Ross. Temple University Press, 2008.
Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Omer Bartov and Atina Grossmann. New Press, 2002.
Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany. Oxford University Press, 1994
Social Democracy and Society: Working-class Radicalism in Düsseldorf, 1890-1920. Cambridge University Press, 1981
Articles:
"Utopian Visions in a Post Utopian Era: Americanism, Human Rights, and Market Fundamentalism,” Central European History, 44 (2011):13-36.
"The Elusive Pursuit of Truth and Justice: A Review Essay,” Radical History Review, 97, (winter 2007): 143-154.
"Varieties of Capitalism and Versionen der Amerikanisierung," in Gibt es einen deutschen Kapitalismus? Tradition und globale Perspektiven der sozialen Marktwirtschaft, ed. by Sigurd Vitols and Volker Berghahn, (Frankfurt: Campus, 2006).
“Air wars, Memory Wars,” Central European History, 38:1 (March 2005): 7-40.
“Ant-Americanism and Americanization in Germany,” Politics and Society 33:1 (March 2005):88-122.
“Consuming America, Producing Gender,” The American Century in Europe By R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), 243-61.
“The Politics of Memory in the Berlin Republic,” Radical History Review, 81 (fall 2001), 113-32.
