Charles Lansing

Assistant Professor

Office: Wood Hall, Room 323
Phone: (860) 486-4553
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:charles.lansing@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic; the Holocaust; European intellectual and social history; European imperialism and colonialism; education in modern Europe

Current Research Interests

The social, political, cultural, and intellectual legacy of Nazi Germany in the postwar German states; the relationship between the German aristocracy and the Nazi state/party in the Third Reich; attitudes and experiences of Germans under Allied occupation and in the early Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic

Biography

Raised in Dallas, Texas, Charles Lansing graduated with honors from Vassar College in 1993. As a Fulbright Fellow (1993-1994) he taught in a German high school in the former East German city of Wismar. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2004. His dissertation "Brandenburg an der Havel’s Teachers, 1933 to 1953: German Lehrer Under Two Dictatorships," which was based on research conducted in German and Russian archives, received the Hans Gatzke Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in European History. He has been teaching at the Universtiy of Connecticut since 2004. He is currently completing a manuscript that explores how fascist dictatorship and war influenced the establishment of the German Democratic Republic through the experience of German schoolteachers under the Nazi and East German dictatorships.

Selected Publications

“The Great Depression, Schoolteachers, and the Nazi Revolution in the Schools.” In David Hicks and Tom Ewing, eds., The Great Depression and Education: Lessons From A Global History (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming 2006).

“German Colonial Empire,” “Rudolf Hess,” “Heinrich von Treitschke” “Joseph Goebbels” and “Krupp” in Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914 and Encyclopedia of Europe 1914-2004, Charles Scribner’s Sons (forthcoming 2006)