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I.  Books & Editions

Lebensborn: Myth, Memory, and the Sexualization of the Nazi Past. Research complete, writing nearing completion. Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant. Contract to be secured by early 2022.

The Historiography of Sexuality, Cambridge Elements in Historical Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press. The focus of the series is on historiography and historical methodology. Book solicited by series editor Daniel Woolf and in the planning stages for likely publication in 2024.

Co-author with Joshua A. Sanborn, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day, 3rd ed. (London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2022).

Co-author with Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, and Michael Thomas Taylor, Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2021). A four-way authored book tracking the transmission of knowledge about transsexuality from Germany to the United States through the stories of trans individuals and key sexologists. Open-access eBook: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/112845. Winner of “Outstanding Academic Title” award from Choice – the official publication of the  American Library Association – 2022.

Editor, Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

Co-editor with Michael Thomas Taylor and Rainer Herrn, Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld, Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017).

Co-author with Joshua A. Sanborn, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day, 2nd ed. (London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2016). Cited as an “essential” purchase for university libraries by Choice, the magazine of American Library Association in January 2017.

The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Co-author with Joshua A. Sanborn, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day (London: Berg Publishers, 2007).

II.  Journal Articles & Roundtables

Curating Visual Archives of Sex: A Roundtable Discussion,” Radical History Review 2022, no. 142 (2022): 19–36. Participant in a forum edited by Heike Bauer and Katie Sutton.

“The Challenges of Including Sexual Violence and Transgressive Love in Historical Writing on World War II and the Holocaust.” Introduction for the special issue: “Transgressive Sex, Love and Violence in WWII Germany and Britain,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 26, no. 3 (2017): 351-65.

“Sex with a Purpose: Prostitution, Venereal Disease and Militarized Masculinity in the Third Reich,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 11, no. 1/2 (2002): 223-55.

“The Legacy of Bevölkerungspolitik: Venereal Disease Control and Marriage Counselling in Post-WWII Berlin,” Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire 33, no. 2 (1998): 173-214.

III. Book Chapters

"Sex in Berlin in the Early Twentieth Century,” commissioned for The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, edited by Mathew Kuefler and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, in press, likely publication 2022).

“The Costs of Silencing Holocaust Victims: Why We Must Add Sexual Violence to Our Definition of Genocide,” in Genocide in Twentieth-Century History: The Power and the Problems of an Interpretive, Ethical-Political, and Legal Concept, ed. Frank Sysyn and Andrea Graziosi (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).

“‘The Most Beautiful Face of Socialism’:  Katarina Witt and the Sexual Politics of Sport in the Cold War,” in The Whole World is Watching: Sport in the Cold War, ed. Robert Edelman and Christopher Young (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Book is winner of “best anthology” from the North American Society for Sport History Book Prize in 2021.

“Introduction: The Dilemmas of Ka-Tzetnik’s International Fame,” in Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik, ed. Annette F. Timm (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), 1–12.

“Testimony in Holocaust History,” in Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik, 37–66.

“Conclusion,” in Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik, 203–216.

“Introduction: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship from Hirschfeld to the Present,” in Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld, ed. Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, and Rainer Herrn, Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017), 1–8.

Contributor with Michael Thomas Taylor to Rainer Herrn’s chapter, “Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science: A Visual Sourcebook,” in Not Straight from Germany, 37–79.

“Moral Panics,” in Not Straight from Germany, 105–9.

“Mothers, Whores or Sentimental Dupes? Emotion and Race in Historiographical Debates about Women in the Third Reich,” in Beyond the Racial State, ed. Mark Roseman, Devin Pendas and Richard Wetzell (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 335-361.

“Health as a Public Good: The Positive Legacies of Volksgesundheit,” in Different Germans, Many Germanies, ed. Konrad H. Jarausch, Harald Wenzel, and Karin Goihl (Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016), 87-104.

“Bio-Politics, Demographobia, and Individual Freedom: Lessons from Germany’s Century of Extremes,” in Reproducing States: Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy, ed. Rickie Solinger and Mie Nakachi (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 33-62.

Co-author with Michael Thomas Taylor, “Sex on Display: Sexual Science and the Exhibition PopSex!,” in Exhibiting the German Past: Museums, Film, and Musealization, ed. Peter M. McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), 223-43.

“Titillation in the Guise of Authenticity: Myths of Nazi Breeding from Hitler’s Children to The Kindly Ones,” in ‚Holocaust‘-Fiktion. Kunst Jenseits der Authentizität, eds. Iris Roebling-Grau and Dirk Rupnow (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015): 271-294.

Co-author with David Hoffmann, “Utopian Biopolitics: Reproductive Policies, Gender Roles, and Sexuality in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union” in Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, eds. Michael Geyer, and Sheila Fitzpatrick (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008): 87-129.

“Sex with a Purpose: Prostitution, Venereal Disease and Militarized Masculinity in the Third Reich,” in Sexuality and German Fascism, ed. Dagmar Herzog (New York: Berghahn Books, 2004), 223-255. (republication of JHS article above.)

“Think it over!”: Soldiers, Veronikas and Venereal Disease in Occupied Berlin,” „Es begann mit einem Kuß”: Deutsch-alliierte Beziehungen 1945 - 1950. ed. Allied Museum in Berlin (Berlin: Jaron-Verlag, 2005). Trilingual catalogue for October 2005 exhibition.

“The Ambivalent Outsider: Prostitution, Promiscuity and VD Control in Nazi Berlin,” in Social Outsiders in the Third Reich, eds. Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001), 192-211.

“Guarding the Health of Worker Families in the GDR: Socialist Health Care, Bevölkerungspolitik, and Marriage Counselling, 1945-1972,” in Arbeiter in der SBZ-DDR, eds. Peter Hübner and Klaus Tenfelde (Essen: Klartext, 1999), 463-95.

IV. Encyclopedia Entries

co-author with Rainer Herrn, “Elbe, Lili (1882–1931),” in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender LGBTQ History (Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner & Sons, 2019), 500–502.

V.  Book & Other Reviews

Katie Sutton, Sex between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-Speaking World, 1890s-1930s (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019), in German History, forthcoming.

Edward Ross Dickinson, Sex, Freedom, and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880-1914 (New York, NY USA: Cambridge University Press, 2014), in Journal of Modern History, 88, no. 4 (2016): 977-9.

Josie McLellan, Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), in The English Historical Review 129, no. 538 (2014): 769–72.

Victoria Harris, Selling Sex in the Reich: Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), in Journal of Modern History, 84, no. 4 (2012): 1017-19.

Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, and Atina Grossmann, After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), in Journal of Modern History, 83, no. 1 (2011): 224-226.

Cornelie Usborne, Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007), in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 84, no. 2 (2010): 309-310.

Timothy L. Schroer, Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2007), in The Journal of Military History 72, no. 4 (2008): 1325-1326.

Nancy R. Reagin, Sweeping the Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Journal of Modern History 80, no. 4 (2008): 956-8.

Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), in Feminist Review 89, no. 1 (2008): 147–9.

Christiane Kuller, Familienpolitik im föderativen Sozialstaat: Die Formierung eines Politikfeldes in der Bundesrepublik 1949-1975 [Family Policy in the Federal Social State: The Formation of a Policy Field in the Federal Republic 1949-1975] (Munich: R.(Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2004), in Journal of Modern History 79: 1 (2007): 221–3.

Birgit Beck, Wehrmacht und sexuelle Gewalt: Sexualverbrechen vor deutschen Militärgerichten 1939-1945 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004), in Armin Nolzen and Sven Reichard, eds., Faschismus in Italien und Deutschland: Studien zu Transfer und Vergleich, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, 21. (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2005), 255-58.

Martin Fuhrmann, Volksvermehrung als Staatsaufgabe? Bevölkerungs- und Ehepolitik in der deutschen politischen und ökonomischen Theorie des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2002), H-German (http://www.h-net.org/~german/) May 2005.

Maria Höhn, GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany (Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002) in Journal of Modern History 76, no. 3 (2004): 730-1.

Review of Museum Exhibition: Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918: Ereignis und Erinnerung. Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin, Germany), May 13 to August 15, 2004, for H-German (http://www.h-net.org/~german/), August 2004.

Merith Niehuss, Familie, Frau und Gesellschaft.  Studien zur Strukturgeschichte der Famillie in Westdeutschland 1945-1960 [Family, Woman and Society: Studies on the Structural History of the Family in West Germany 1945-1960] (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001) Social History 29, no. 4 (2004), 550-52.

with Anna-Sabine Ernst, Gerwin Klinger, “In Search of a Lost Working Class: Workers in the Soviet Occupation Zone/German Democratic Republic, 1945-1970,” International Labor and Working Class History 54 (1998): 135-38.