Joan Clinefelter

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Education

• A.B., German and European Studies, Grinnell College
• M.A., Modern European History, Indiana University
• Ph.D., Modern European History, Indiana University

Professional/Academic Experience

Professor, University of Northern Colorado, 1995-Present

Research/Areas of Interest

Modern European History, 20th-century Europe, modern Germany

Publications/Creative Works

“The Patriarchy Is Finished”: Broadcasting Women’s Emancipation on RIAS Berlin,” German History, forthcoming.

“Can You Spare 5 Minutes? Cold War Women’s Radio on RIAS Berlin,” Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture 1 (Fall 2020): 279–297.

“Not Child's Play, Propaganda: Audience Reception of RIAS Berlin's Uncle Tobias,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 39 (2019): 322-340.

“Representing the Volksgemeinschaft: Art in the Third Reich,” in Lisa Pine, ed., Life and Times in Nazi Germany, London: Bloomsbury, 2016, 187-212.

Artists for the Reich: Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany. Oxford: Berg, 2005.

“A Cinematic Construction of Nazi Anti-Semitism: The Documentary Der ewige Jude,” in Robert Reimer, ed., Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich, Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2000, 133-154.

And older publications, presentations, too.

Honors and Awards

• Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Fellow, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015, 2012.
• Provost Research and Dissemination Grant, 2017, 2010.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 2008, 1996.
• M. Lucille Harrison Professor, 2008.
• Faculty Research Publications Board Grant, 2006, 1999, 1998.
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst Grant, 2006, 1991-92.
• Student Awards for Outstanding/Favorite Faculty, 1995-2002, 2004-2007, 2010-11, 2014, 2017. 

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