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John M. Cox Florida Gulf Coast Univ. Comparative genocide, the Holocaust, anti-Nazi resistance, social and labor history |
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List Affiliations: | Reviewer for H-German |
Reviews: | untitled A Major, Provocative Contribution to Genocide Studies |
Interests: | Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies |
Bio: “short CV,” July 2009 Academic positions Assistant Professor of European History, Florida Gulf Coast University, 2006-present Director, FGCU Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies Research and teaching interests Modern Germany, the Holocaust, anti-Nazi resistance, fascism and anti-fascism, comparative genocide, labor and working-class history, Islamic history Publications: Books, chapters, articles Book: Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany (Peter Lang, 2009) Book under contract with Pearson Prentice Hall: To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century (early 2011) Chapter, “Herbert Baum: Jewish Resistance to the Nazi Dictatorship,” for The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present, Cora Granata and Cheryl Koos, eds., Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, pp. 139-154 Article, “Raul Hilberg: In Memoriam,” in the Journal of Jewish Identities 1:2 (July 2008), pp. 1-6 Essay, “Lost Worlds: Genocide and Diego Rivera’s ‘Tenochtitlán’,” for Evoking Genocide: Researchers and Activists Describe the Works of Art and Media That Shaped Their Lives, Adam Jones, ed., Key Publishing, 2009, pp. 8-10 Forthcoming: Chapter, “From Rev. Wright to ‘Joe the Plumber’: Racial and Class Anxieties in the 2008 Elections,” for Succotash: Critical Reflections on the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaigns, María Ochoa and Myra Mendible, eds., 2010 Publications: Book and film reviews Book review, James M. Glass, Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Moral Uses of Violence and Will, for the Journal of Jewish Identities 1:1 (January 2008), pp. 114-116 Book review, Walid Phares, The War of Ideas: Jihad Against Democracy, for The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 13:7 (December 2008) Book review, Robert Satloff, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach Into Arab Lands, for the Journal of Genocide Research 10:4 (December 2008), pp. 609-611 Film review, “Bonhoeffer,” H-German Discussion Network, May 2004 http://www.h-net.org/mmreviews/showrev.cgi?path=711 Publications: Textbooks Chief Content Editor and Contributor for 2nd edition of A. Daniel Frankforter and William Spellman’s The West: Culture and Ideas, Volume II: 1400 to the Present (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008) Publications: Peer-reviewed, chapter-length encyclopedia entries “Germany, socialism and nationalism,” International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present, Immanuel Ness, ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2009, pp. 1373-1381 Education Ph.D., History University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2005 Advisor: Dr. Konrad Jarausch M.A., History Brandeis University, 1998 B.A., History Appalachian State University, 1986 Selected recent conference papers Upcoming: “Courage vs. Violence: Marx and Engels on Terrorism in Their Age.” To be presented at the German Studies Association (GSA) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2009. “Individual vs. Official Memory: Jewish Anti-Nazi Resisters in Post-War East Germany.” Presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2008. “Politics and Culture in the Jewish Youth Movements of Weimar Germany.” Presented at the Legacy of the Holocaust: The World Before, The World After, Krakow, Poland, May 2007. |