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Peter Hayes

Germany in the 20th century. Holocaust and genocide, modern Europe.

Office: Harris Hall #209
Phone: 847-467-4045
E-mail: p-hayesnorthwestern.edu

Peter Hayes (PhD Yale, 1982), the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor, specializes in the history of Germany in the 20th century, particularly the Nazi period. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the prize winners Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era and Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World, and most recently The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (ed. with John K. Roth) and Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik (with Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, and Moshen Zimmermann). He is currently working on an anthology-history of the Holocaust, a study of German big business and the persecution of the Jews, and a manuscript on German elites and National Socialism. A recipient of the Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award and the Northwestern Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, he also held a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence, the University’s highest honor for teaching, in 2007-10. He has held research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he is also a member of the Academic Committee.

 

Universitätskulturen

L'Université en perspective

The Future of the University

 

Das Amt und die

Vergangenheit:

Deutsche Diplomaten

im Dritten Reich und

in der Bundesrepublik

 

From Cooperation

to Complicity:

Degussa in the Third Reich

 

Degussa im Dritten Reich:

Von der Zusammenarbeit

zur Mittäterschaft

 

Industry and Ideology:

IG Farben in the Nazi Era

 

The Oxford Handbook

of Holocaust Studies

 

The Last Expression:

Art and Auschwitz

 

Lessons and Legacies III:

Memory, Memorialization,

and Denial

 

Imperial Germany

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Record

Department of History
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
Phone: 847-491-3406  Fax: 847-467-1393  
history@northwestern.edu
Web page updates: Eric West (e-west@northwestern.edu)
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