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1 DR. KATJA WEZEL University of Pittsburgh Department of History 3702 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, 2013 present Instructor for History, High School Herderschule Lüneburg (Germany), AP-equivalent courses in History, Instructor, Department of History, Ruperto Carola Heidelberg University (Germany), Research Associate in East European History, Ruperto Carola Heidelberg University, Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Junior Research Group (Graduiertenkolleg) Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe, Ruperto Carola Heidelberg University, EDUCATION PhD, History, Ruperto Carola Heidelberg University (Germany), 2011 Teaching qualification (Staatsexamen), teacher training seminar Heilbronn (Germany), 2011 MA, Ruperto Carola Heidelberg University (Germany), 2004 Double major in History and English EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE ABROAD Visiting PhD Fellow, Department of History, University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia), Visiting Student, European University at St. Petersburg (Russia) in the Program Master in Russian Studies, Fall 2002 Visiting Student, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (United Kingdom), PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH Manuscript in progress Occupation, Deportation, Genocide. Memory Politics in Post-Communist Latvia and Beyond. Peer reviewed journal articles Transcending Borders: Riga s Baltic German Entrepreneurs in an Era of Nationalism, Revolution and War. Journal of Baltic Studies 48/1 (2017), pp DOI: / Introduction: German Community German Nationality? Baltic German perceptions of Belonging in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Journal of Baltic Studies 48/1 (2017), pp DOI: /

2 The Unfinished Business of Perestroika. Latvia s Memory Politics and its Quest for Acknowledgement of Victimhood in Europe. Nationalities Papers 44/4 (2016), pp DOI: / Book chapters Loyalty, Minority, Monarchy: The Baltic German Press and In Felicitas Fischer v. Weikersthal et. al. (eds.). The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers 2013, pp Country Report Latvia. In Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky (eds.). Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press 2012, pp Clashes of Memory in Europe s New Old Borderland : Latvian Nation-building and Responses of Latvia s Russian speaking population. In Imbi Sooman and Stefan Donecker (eds). The Baltic Frontier Revisited. Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Baltic Sea Region. Vienna: University of Vienna 2009, pp Forthcoming Memory Conflicts as Barrier for Reconciliation: Post-Soviet Disputes between the Baltic States and Russia. In Lily Gardner Feldman et al. (eds.). Societies in Transition. The Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe between Conflict and Reconciliation. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Forthcoming in 2018). Riga s Cheka House From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? In Steve Norris (ed.). Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe (under review at Indiana University Press). with Karsten Brüggemann: Nationally Indifferent or Ardent Nationalists? On the Options of Being German in Russia s Baltic Provinces, (currently under review at Kritika) Other publications/public outreach Latvia s Soviet Story. Transitional Justice and the Politics of Commemoration. In Atslegvardi/Keywords 2 (2009). Online: PUBLICATIONS IN GERMAN Monograph Geschichte als Politikum: Lettland und die Aufarbeitung nach der Diktatur [History as Politics: Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Latvia]. (Series: The Baltic Sea Region: Northern Dimensions European Perspectives, Vol. 15). Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts- Verlag Peer reviewed journal articles Lettlands Rückkehr nach Europa Erfüllung eines lettischen Traums? Der EU-Beitritt als Projekt der lettischen Elite [ Latvia s Return to Europe The Fulfillment of a Latvian Dream? EU-Accession as a Project of the Latvian Elite ]. In Nordost-Archiv XVIII (2010), pp

3 Okkupanten oder Befreier? Geteilte Erinnerung und getrennte Geschichtsbilder in Lettland [ Occupiers or Liberators? Divided Memory and Separated Historical Narratives in Latvia ]. In Osteuropa 58:6 (2008), pp Editorship with Birgit Hofmann, Katrin Hammerstein, Julie Trappe and Regina Fritz. Diktaturüberwindung in Europa. Neue nationale und transnationale Perspektiven [Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe: New National and Transnational Perspectives]. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter Book chapters Lettland und der 23. August 1939: Vom weißen Fleck der sowjetischen Geschichtsschreibung zum transnationalen Gedenktag? [ Latvia and 23 August 1939: From a White Spot in Soviet History to a Transnational Post-Soviet Commemoration Day? ]. In Anna Kaminsky, Dietmar Müller and Stefan Troebst (eds.). Hitler Stalin Pakt 1939 in den Erinnerungskulturen der Europäer. Göttingen: Wallstein 2011, pp Brauner vs. Roter Genozid? Geschichtspolitische und filmische Auseinandersetzungen mit dem diktatorischen Erbe in Lettland [ Brown vs. Red Genocide? Post-Soviet Politics of Commemoration in Latvian Films ]. In Birgit Hofmann et al. (eds.). Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe: New National and Transnational Perspectives. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2010, pp with Regina Fritz: Konkurrenz der Erinnerungen? Museale Darstellungen diktatorischer Erfahrungen in Lettland und Ungarn [ Competition of Memories? Dictatorships in the Displays of Museums in Latvia and Hungary ]. In Katrin Hammerstein et al. (eds.). Aufarbeitung der Diktatur Diktat der Aufarbeitung? Normierungsprozesse beim Umgang mit diktatorischer Vergangenheit. Göttingen: Wallstein 2009, pp Nationskonstruktion und Abgrenzung. Lettland nach dem Ende der Sowjetherrschaft [ Nationbuildung and Demarcation. Latvia after the End of the Soviet Empire ]. In Carola Sachse, Edgar Wolfrum and Regina Fritz (eds.). Nationen und ihre Selbstbilder. Postdiktatorische Gesellschaften in Europa. Göttingen: Wallstein 2008, pp FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS DAAD Fellowship for Visiting Professors Abroad, (5 years, EUR 180,000) REES Faculty Travel Grant, Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2017 (USD 1,500) Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Faculty Research on the European Union Grant, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2016 (USD 3,500) REES Faculty Travel Grant, Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2015 (USD 1,500) Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung [Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship], dissertation publication grant, 2015 (EUR 4,500) Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Graduate Academy, University of Heidelberg, 2008 (3 months) DAAD Research Fellowship, Research Grant for Graduate Students, 2008 (4 months) 3

4 Young Researchers Award, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2007 Graduate Student Fellowship, Heinrich Boell Foundation, (3 years) DAAD Undergraduate Study Scholarship, Annual Grant, (10 months) Erasmus, European Union Scholarship, (10 months) TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2013 PRESENT Undergraduate teaching HIST 0201 The Baltic Sea: From the Vikings to Post-Soviet Re-Union (spring 2018) HIST 0190 The Dictators, University Honors College course (spring 2016) HIST 1001 Introductory Seminar: The European Revolutions (spring 2014, fall 2015, spring 2017) HIST 1046 Nationalism (fall 2013, fall 2014, fall 2015, fall 2016, fall 2017) HIST 1108 Comparative European History: Political Ideologies in the 20 th Century (fall 2013, fall 2014, spring 2017) HIST 1131 Modern Germany (spring 2014) HIST 1132 Contemporary Germany (spring 2015, spring 2016, spring 2018) HIST 1313 History of the Russian Revolution (fall 2016, fall 2017) Graduate teaching HIST 2045 Memory Politics (spring 2015) TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, Undergraduate Courses Visual History The Use of Photographs and Pictures as Sources (spring 2011) Memory Politics in Eastern Europe (spring 2009) Revolution, Dictatorships and Genocide in Movies (fall 2007) National Movements in the Baltics and the End of the Soviet Empire (fall 2006) SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Undergraduate Advising Supervisor for the Undergraduate History Senior Thesis of Kieran Coffey, on the topic Language as a National Symbol. German Nationalism in the Long 19 th Century, recipient of the William Stanton Prize for the best Senior Thesis in History written in the academic year Supervisor for Undergraduate History Senior Thesis of Halak Mehta, on the topic Kazakhstan s Usable Past: Nazarbayev s Official Nationalism and the Attempt to Create a Post-Soviet National Political Culture, recipient of the William Stanton Prize for the best Senior Thesis in History written in the academic year

5 Member of the Bachelor of Philosophy Thesis Committee of Rebecca Wallace, on the topic Chinese Nationalism and the Confucius Institutes, Faculty mentor for Brackenridge Fellowship, Halak Mehta, Spring 2015 Supervisor for Undergraduate History Senior Thesis of Erin Harrington, on the topic Colonies, Cotton, and the Global Economy: How Uzbekistan Became Dependent on Cotton in the Imperial Era, Graduate Advising Member of the PhD Committee of Adam Brode, History, on the topic Reshaping Riga: Urban Space and Ethnic Reversal , 2015 present. Member of the MA Committee of Barry Bookheimer, History, on the topic The Mortar in the Mosaic: Creating Community among Ukrainian Displaced Persons in US-occupied Germany, Member of the MA Committee of Deena Horowitz, Anthropology/Asian Studies, on the topic Victims, Martyrs and Heroes: A Formation and Manipulation of Historical Memory in China, Member of the MA Committee of Adam Brode, History, on the topic Pride of Place: Perceptions of Class and Historical Justice in the Struggle for Riga s Cathedral Church, Committees and Annual Events Diversity Committee, History Department, 2016 present Commentator for the European Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2015 present Post-Doc Selection Committee, Russian and East European Studies Center 2015 World History Center, Travel Award Committee, 2014 present Honors College, DAAD Selection Committee for Pitt Nominee, 2013 present SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY Student Advisor for East European History at the University of Heidelberg, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Memory Studies Network Organizer for the German Studies Association (GSA), 2016 present DAAD North America Research and Study Scholarships Selection Committee, 2015 present Reviewer for the Journals Contemporary European Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, History: Reviews of New Books, Journal of Baltic Studies, Journal of Cold War Studies, Nord-Ost Archiv SELECTED PAPERS (IN ENGLISH) AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES Lobbying for Economic Revival: Baltic Business Elites, the Idea of a United Baltic Duchy, and the Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention, Chicago, November 9 12,

6 From Provincial Capital to Industrial Metropolis: Modernization, Multi-ethnicity and Urban Development in Riga s Golden Decade, , Annual Convention of the German Studies Association (GSA), Atlanta, October 5 8, Evacuation, Revolution and Expropriation: Compensation Claims and Economic Reorientation of Baltic German Entrepreneurs during and after WWI, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) Conference, Philadelphia, May 26 28, Riga s Cheka House From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Annual World Convention, New York, April 14 16, A Latvian Nuremberg? The Limits of Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Latvia, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention, Philadelphia, November 19 20, Transcending Borders Baltic German Entrepreneurs in Late Imperial Russia, International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) IX World Congress, Makuhari, Japan, August 3 8, Reassessing History 1939 as a Cornerstone for Latvia s Post-Soviet Narrative, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention, San Antonio, November 20 23, The European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism. Eastern European Perceptions and EU Memory Politics, History of European Integration Research Society (HEIRS) Annual Conference, Maastricht, June 5 6, Latvia s 'Soviet Story': The Politics of Commemoration and the Question of Coming to Terms with the Communist Past, 8th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE), Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, June 11 14, Divided Memory, Parallel Societies? Latvians and Russians in Post-Soviet Latvia, Symposium: The Baltic Frontier Revisited. Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Baltic Sea Region, EUI Florence, February 29 March 1, INVITED TALKS The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Perspective of a Refugee from Communist East Germany, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Pittsburgh, October 12, 2017 Masterclass/Workshop Memory, Transitional Justice, and the Power of Images, Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Giessen, December 14, Historische Notwendigkeit oder geschichtspolitische Fiktion? Die staatsrechtliche Anknüpfung an die Zwischenkriegszeit in Lettland 1990, Seminar: Die baltischen Staaten in der Zwischenkriegszeit, Europäische Akademie Sankelmark, April 12-14, Lettland nach der Diktatur. Politische Aufarbeitung umkämpfter Erinnerungen, Zeitgeschichtliches Kolloquium Jena, May 26, Der 'Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pakt': Vom lettischen zum europäischen Erinnerungsort? Konferenz: Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt Grenzverschiebungen, Verfolgung, Deportationen und die Erinnerungskultur im östlichen Europa, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, August 21-23,

7 ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND LECTURE SERIES Panel Organizer The Baltics and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Re-Imagining the Baltic Region at the End of WWI, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention, Chicago, November 9-12, Panel Organizer Re-Defining Urban Space in Transition. Political and Economic Impacts on Urban Planning in Riga, Kaliningrad and Leipzig, Annual Convention of the German Studies Association (GSA), Atlanta, October 5 8, Roundtable Organizer National Indifference A Category for Assessing Perceptions of Belonging in the Baltics?, Conference for Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE), Riga, June 19 21, Organizer, Lecture Series Migration, Integration, Xenophobia in Post-WWII Germany, University of Pittsburgh, Spring Seminar Panel Organizer (with Stefan Donecker) German Community German Nationality? Perceptions of Belonging in the Baltics, German Studies Association (GSA) Annual Convention, Kansas City, September 18 21, Organizer, Baltic Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh (Re)Imagining and (Re)Interpreting Spaces, Symbols and Sites. The Baltic Region from the 19 th to the 20 th Century, University of Pittsburgh, October 9 10, Organizer (with Randall Halle), Film and Discussion Series 25 th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, University of Pittsburgh, Fall Co-Organizer, Conference Rethinking the Russian Revolution of 1905, International Academic Forum Heidelberg, October 23 25, Co-Organizer, Conference Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe. New National and Transnational Perspectives, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, November 21 27, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Baltische Historische Kommission (BHK) German Studies Association (GSA) Memory Studies Association (MSA) LANGUAGES German: native English: full professional proficiency Russian: fluent reading and speaking, limited writing Latvian: fluent reading, speaking, and writing French: reading skills Latin: reading skills 7

CURRICULUM VITAE DR. KATJA WEZEL

CURRICULUM VITAE DR. KATJA WEZEL DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh, Department of History 3702 Posvar Hall, 230 South Bouquet Street Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Email: wezel@pitt.edu