Gerald Steinacher
Gerald is spending the fall semester as a research fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem/Jerusalem. He is finishing his book manuscript about the Red Cross and the Holocaust and also beginning a new major research project about de-nazification.
He recently presented a paper about Austria, de-nazification and the Early Cold War at a conference at the Mauthausen Documentation Center (see attached). The Mauthausen concentration camp was the largest and the most notorious Nazi camp in Austria. On October 15 he gave the annual Danek Gertner lecture at Yad Vashem. The Gertner family from Vienna is one of the main sponsors of the Research Center and this opportunity is a great honor.
He has also received an invitation to serve as an adviser for the National Survey on Holocaust Education conducted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Stephen Burnett
This year Stephen is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He is doing research for a new book on Luther and the Jews during the final years of his (Luther’s) life. In May 2015, he was also honored with a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander Humboldt Foundation (Germany).
Philip Schwadel
His most recent publications focused on generational changes in the association between social class and religion in the United States. He is currently working on several projects that address the influence of religion on political perspectives. This research focuses on the indirect effects of religious affiliations and beliefs on political outcomes such as party affiliation, political tolerance, and views of government spending. He also has a continuing project on social networks in churches. He and his colleagues have collected network data in three churches. He plans to continue this line of research with both additional churches and additional waves of data collection within the same church. They are employing this data to examine how social networks within and outside of the church affect churchgoers civic and political activities.
Jean Cahan
Jean Cahan will deliver a lecture on "Transboundary Water Governance in an Era of Resurgent Nationalism" at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee next April.
