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Peter Hayes
Germany in the 20th century. Holocaust and genocide, modern Europe.
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Peter Hayes (PhD Yale, 1982), the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies, specializes in the history of Germany in the 20th century, particularly the Nazi period. He is the author or editor of seven books, including From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (2004) and a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation in the Nazi era. He is currently working on two other books: Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and the Holocaust and The Failure of a Generation: German Elites and National Socialism. In addition, Hayes is co-editing (with John K. Roth) The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies and serving as the sole American member of the Independent Historians’ Commission appointed by the German Foreign Minister in 2006 to investigate the history of the German diplomatic service during the Nazi regime and in its aftermath. A recipient of the WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award and the Northwestern Alumni Association's Excellence in Education Award, he has also held fellowships from the DAAD, the ACLS, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is a member of the Academic Board of the German Society for Business History and of the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. For the period 2007-10, he holds a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence, the University’s highest honor for teaching.
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