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Heide Fehrenbach
OccupationHistorian
SpouseDavid Buller
AwardsGuggenheim Fellow (2007)
Academic background
Alma materRutgers University
ThesisCinema in democratizing Germany: the reconstruction of mass culture and national identity in the West, 1945-1960 (1990)
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
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Institutions

Heide Fehrenbach is an American historian. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she studies the history of Germany, and she has authored the books Cinema in Democratizing Germany (1995), Race after Hitler (2005), and After the Nazi Racial State (2009) and co-edited the volumes Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations (1999) and Humanitarian Photography: A History (2015). She is Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) Department of History.[1]

Biography

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Fehrenbach was born to Verizon worker Gladys Lucia (née Kieselat) and sheet metal mechanic Herbert Frank Fehrenbach.[2][3] She was raised in Pequannock Township, New Jersey,[4] where she became a New Jersey State Scholar in 1975.[5] She studied at Rutgers University, where she obtained her PhD in modern European history;[6] her thesis Cinema in democratizing Germany: the reconstruction of mass culture and national identity in the West, 1945-1960 was supervised by Victoria de Grazia and Harold Poor.[7]

In 1990, Fehrenbach started worked at Colgate University,[1] where she later became assistant professor of history.[8] In 1998, she left Colgate and became Associate Professor of History at Emory University, remaining there until 2001.[1][9] She later moved to Northern Illinois University (NIU) after her time at Emory.[1] In 2012, she was appointed a Board of Trustees Professor at NIU.[10]

Fehrenbach won the Conference Group for Central European History's 1997 award for best first book for her 1995 book Cinema in Democratizing Germany,[11] which focuses on the history of film in Germany after the end of World War II.[12] In 1999, she and Uta Poiger co-edited Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations, a volume on the global impact of Americanization.[13] In 2003, she wrote an article for Long Island newspaper Newsday drawing comparisons between the Western Allied invasion of Germany and the United States' then-ongoing invasion of Iraq, particularly the idea of post-war cultural identity in these countries.[14] She later published two books on race in Germany after World War II: Race after Hitler (2005) and, as one of four co-authors, After the Nazi Racial State (2009).[15][16] In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[17][6] She and Davide Rodogno co-edited the 2015 volume Humanitarian Photography: A History, part of the Cambridge University Press series Human Rights in History.[18]

At NIU, Fehrenbach teaches courses in areas such as history of Europe (particularly Germany) and film history.[1] In 2007, The Pantagraph reported that her books "were taught at universities around the world".[6]

Fehrenbach is married to philosopher David Buller, who is also a professor at NIU.[2] She lived in DeKalb, Illinois, as of 2020.[2] In September 2004, she participated in a rally protesting the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign nearby Dick Cheney's appearance at the NIU's Convocation Center.[19]

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Heide Fehrenbach - NIU - Department of History". Northern Illinois University. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Gladys Fehrenbach Obituary (1926 - 2020) - Landing, NJ - The Star-Ledger". Legacy.com. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  3. ^ "Herbert Fehrenbach Obituary (2012) - Pequannock, NJ - The Record/Herald News". Legacy.com. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  4. ^ "PUPILS STAGE CHRISTMAS PLAY". Paterson Evening News. December 23, 1963. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Scholarship Winners Announced". Daily Record. April 2, 1975. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b c "History professor gets fellowship". The Pantagraph. April 15, 2007. p. B4 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in democratizing Germany: the reconstruction of mass culture and national identity in the West, 1945-1960 (Thesis). Rutgers University. OCLC 27959827 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ "Heide Fehrenbach". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  9. ^ "New tenured faculty have variety of interests, experience". Emory Report. Vol. 51, no. 10. November 2, 1998. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  10. ^ "NIU honors Board of Trustees Professors". The Midweek. April 11, 2012. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Report of the 1996 Prize Committee". Conference Group for Central European History Newsletter. No. Spring 1997. 1997. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  12. ^ "Cinema in Democratizing Germany | Heide Fehrenbach". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  13. ^ "TRANSACTIONS, TRANSGRESSIONS, TRANSFORMATION". Berghahn Books. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  14. ^ Fehrenbach, Heide (April 20, 2003). "In Germany, Help From the Cold War". Newsday. p. A27 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Race after Hitler". Princeton University Press. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  16. ^ "After the Nazi Racial State". University of Michigan Press. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  17. ^ "Heide Fehrenbach". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  18. ^ "Humanitarian Photography". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  19. ^ Hernandez, Aracely (September 19, 2004). "Cheney appearance draws protests". The Daily Chronicle. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ McCormick, Richard W. (1997). "Review of Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler". German Politics & Society. 15 (4 (45)): 149–152. ISSN 1045-0300 – via JSTOR.
  21. ^ Saunders, Thomas J. (1996). "Review of Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler". The American Historical Review. 101 (5): 1571–1572. doi:10.2307/2170258. ISSN 0002-8762 – via JSTOR.
  22. ^ Daum, Andreas (2002). "Review of Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations. American Culture in Western Europe and Japan". Historische Zeitschrift. 275 (3): 826–827. ISSN 0018-2613 – via JSTOR.
  23. ^ Kater, Michael H. (2002). "Review of Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan". Central European History. 35 (3): 456–458. ISSN 0008-9389 – via JSTOR.
  24. ^ Barkin, Kenneth (2009). "African Americans, Afro-Germans, White Americans, and Germans". The Journal of African American History. 94 (2): 253–265. ISSN 1548-1867 – via JSTOR.
  25. ^ Bungert, Heike (2006). "Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America". The Journal of American History. 93 (2): 581–581. doi:10.2307/4486348. ISSN 0021-8723 – via JSTOR.
  26. ^ Fenner, Angelica (2008). "Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America". German Studies Review. 31 (1): 178–179. ISSN 0149-7952 – via JSTOR.
  27. ^ Harsch, Donna (2007). "Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America". The International History Review. 29 (4): 909–911. ISSN 0707-5332 – via JSTOR.
  28. ^ Kundrus, Birthe (2007). "Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America". Central European History. 40 (2): 379–382. ISSN 0008-9389 – via JSTOR.
  29. ^ Mazón, Patricia (2007). "Review of Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America". The American Historical Review. 112 (1): 169–170. ISSN 0002-8762 – via JSTOR.
  30. ^ Trabacca, Francesca (2006). "Enfants et guerres". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire (89): 136–137. ISSN 0294-1759 – via JSTOR.
  31. ^ von Joeden-Forgey, Elisa (2008). "After the Nazis, back to Blacks". Patterns of Prejudice. 42 (2). doi:10.1080/00313220801996154. ISSN 0031-322X – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  32. ^ Gregor, Neil (2010). "After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe". The American Historical Review. 115 (5): 1548–1549. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.5.1548. ISSN 0002-8762 – via Oxford University Press.
  33. ^ Timm, Annette F. (2011). "Review of After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe". The Journal of Modern History. 83 (1): 224–226. doi:10.1086/658040. ISSN 0022-2801 – via JSTOR.
  34. ^ Mauad, Ana Maria (February 23, 2020). "Review of *Humanitarian Photography: A History*". Society for US Intellectual History. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  35. ^ Stornig, Katharina (2016). "Review of Fehrenbach, Heide; Rodogno, Davide, Humanitarian Photography: A History". H-Net. H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Review. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
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