Margaret Lavinia Anderson

Professor


Contact

Office: 2315 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: TH 4-5, F 11-12
Phone: (510) 642-6146
Email: mlavinia@berkeley.edu

Education

Ph.D., Brown University
B.A., Swarthmore College

Interests

Teaching

Europe since 1453; Central Europe from the late 18th century ff, especially modern Germany; World War I; Fascist Europe.

Research

Until recently I worked on political culture, including electoral politics, in Imperial Germany and in comparative European perspective; the intersection of religion and politics; religion and society–especially Catholicism in the 19th century. I am now working on the relations (on the level of governments as well as civil society) between Germany and the Ottoman Empire from the time of the massacres of the Armenians in 1894-1896 to c. 1933.

Courses

History 5: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the Present (Fall 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009)

History 39: World War I in Experience & Memory (Fall 2003)

History 103: World War I in Experience & Memory (Fall 2006)

History 167B: The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich (Spring 2006, Fall 2007)

History 275B: Europe in the Long 19th Century (Fall 2006, Fall 2009)

History 280U: Germany and Russia Together Again with Reginald E. Zelnik (Spring 2004)

History 280B: World War One: Crucible of the 20th Century (Spring 2006)

History 280U: History and Historiography of the German Question (Variously)

History 285B: Research in German and in European History

Most Important Publications

Books

Windthorst: A Political Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.

Windthorst: Zentrumspolitiker und Gegenspeiler Bismarcks. Droste, 1988.

Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. Princeton University Press, 2000.

Lehrjahre der Demokratie. Wahlen und Politische Kultur im deutschen Kaiserreich. Steiner Verlag, 2009.
   

Articles

"Down in Turkey Far Away": Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany," Journal of Modern History, 79/1 (March 2007): 80-113

Ludwig Windthorst: (17 January 1812–15 March 1891), Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, ed. by John Merriman and Jay Winter (Scriber Library of Modern Europe, Detroit, 2006) European History): 123-127.

How German is It? German History 24/1 (Jan. 2006): 123-127.

A German Way of War? German History 22/2 (May 2004): 254-258. Reprinted in Relevance. The Quarterly Journal of the Great War Society 14/1 (Winter 2005):22-24.

Reply to Volker Berghahn, Central European History 35/1 (Feb. 2002): 83-91.

Afterword: Living Apart and Together in Germany, in Helmut Walser Smith, ed., Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany 1800-1914 (Oxford: Berg, 2001), 319-332.

From Syllabus to Shoah? Central European History 34/2 (2001): 231-238.

The Divisions of the Pope: The Catholic Revival and Europe's Transition to Democracy, in Austen Ivereigh, ed., The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival (ILAS 19th Century Latin America Series, No. 5: London, 2000), 22-42. A Spanish translation was published in the journal of the Columbian Historical Association, Historia y Sociedad 6 (Dec. 1999): 59-84.

Clerical Election Influence and Communal Solidarity: Catholic Political Culture in the German Empire, 1871-1914, in Eduardo Posada-Carbó, ed., Elections before Democracy. Essays on the Electoral History of Latin America & Europe (Macmillan: NY, London, 1996), 139-162.

The Limits of Secularization: On the Problem of the Catholic Revival in 19th Century Germany, Historical Journal, 38, 3, 1995: 647-670.

"Die Grenzen der Säkularisierung. Zur Frage des katholischen Aufschwungs in Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts, in Hartmut Lehmann, ed., Säkularisierung, Dechristianisierung, Rechristianisierung im neuzeitlichen Europa. Bilanz und Perspektiven der Forschung (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen, 1997), 194-222. An earlier version of "The Limits," above.

Ludwig Windthorst (1812-1891), Encyclopedic History of Modern Germany, 1995.

Voter, Junker, Landrat, Priest: The Old Authorities and the New Franchise in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914, American Historical Review 98/5 (Dec. 1993): 1448-74.

Liberalismus, Demokratie und die Entstehung des Kulturkampfes, in R. Lill and F. Traniello, eds., Der Kulturkampf in Italien und in den deutschsprachigen Ländern [Schriften des Italienisch-Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Trient, Bd. 5] (Duncker & Humboldt: Berlin, 1993): 109-27. Also published in Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient 40 (Bologna, 1992).

Liberalismo, democrazia e nascita del 'Kulturkampf,' Annali dell' Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento (Bologna, 1992), Quaderno 30: 137-163. An Italian translation of the above.

History in the Comic Mode: Jonathan Sperber's 1848, Central European History 25/3 (1992): 333-42.

Piety and Politics: Recent Work in German Catholicism, Journal of Modern History (Dec. 1991): 681-716.

Würdigung" [Afterword], Ludwig Windthorst 1812-1891. Christlicher Parlamentarier und Gegenspieler Bismarcks. Begleitbuch zur Gedenkausstellung aus Anlaß des 100. Todestages (Meppen, 1991): 104-106. [Catalogue to traveling exhibition in Germany.]

Inter-denominationalism, Clericalism, Pluralism: The Zentrumsstreit and the Dilemma of Catholicism in Wilhelmine Germany, Central European History 21/4 (1990): 350-378.

Der Mythos der Puttkamer-'Säuberung' und die Realität des Kulturkampfes: Einige Überlegungen Geschichtsschreibung über das kaiserliche Deutschland, with K. Barkin, Historisches Jahrbuch 109. Jg, Zweiter Halbband (1989): 452-498. A German translation of "The Myth of the Puttkamer Purge...." below.

Windthorsts Erben: Konfessionalität und Interkonfessionalismus im politischen Katholizismus, 1890-1918, in Christliche Demokratie in Europa. Grundlagen und Entwicklungen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Winfried Becker and Rudolf Morsey (Böhlau: Cologne, 1988), 69-90. An earlier, shorter version of "Inter-denominationalism," above.

The Kulturkampf and the Course of German History, Central European History 19/1 (1986): 82-115.

The Myth of the Puttkamer Purge and the Reality of the Kulturkampf: Some Reflections on the Recent Historiography of Imperial Germany, with Kenneth Barkin, Journal of Modern History (Dec. 1982): 647-686.

Prizes

2006 Best Graduate Syllabus in German History, awarded by H-German

1995 Best Article: Judith Lee Ridge Memorial Prize for best article by a woman historian, awarded by the Western Association of Women Historians. For "Voter, Junker, Landrat, Priest...."

1993 Best syllabus in German Studies, awarded by the DAAD

1987 Best Article on Central European History, awarded bi-annually, by the Conference Group on Central European History. For "The Kulturkampf and the Course of German History."

1985 Teaching: Flack Faculty Award for Teaching (Swarthmore College)

1984 Best Article on Central European History, awarded bi-annually, by the Conference Group on Central European History. For the "Myth of the Puttkamer Purge..." co-authored by Kenneth Barkin.

Fellowships since 2000

2008-2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

2008-2009 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

2004-05 Martha Sutten Weeks (External) Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center

2004-05 Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies

2001    Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin

Selected Recent Professional Activity

1993-2003 Member of the academic advisory board (wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the German Historical Institute in Washington

1996ff   Member of Board of Editors of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte

1999      Prize Committee for Book Award for German Studies Association

2000      Visiting Evaluation Committee for the History Department at Notre Dame, University, South Bend, Indiana

2003ff   Member of Workshop of Armenian and Turkish Scholars

2003-06 John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Prize Committee (Chair, 2006)

2003      Director, Graduate Summer Seminar in History for the Erasmus Institute, at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA.

2004      Senior Fellow of Translatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Tübingen, sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

2006      Selection Panel for fellowship applications for American County for Learned Societies (ACLS)

Scholarly Papers, and Commentary on Papers, since 2000

Papers on Catholicism and the Transition to Democracy in Europe at the Universities of Passau, Eichstätt, Munich, and the Free University of Berlin (2000-01) and Notre Dame, South Bend IN (2002); Commentary on three papers on Catholic Cultural Engagement at Home, Parish, and Workplace in Early 20th century Germany, Catholic Historical Association annual meeting (2000); on papers on Protestant Teachings about the Jews in Germany at the Conference on Christian Teachings about the Jews: National Comparisons in the Shadow of the Holocaust (sponsored by the National Holocaust Center and Kirchliche Zeitschichte) at Pacific Lutheran University (2002); on four papers at the conference on Alternate Master Narratives of Religion in the Modern World, University of Amsterdam (2004); commentary on paper on the Bach revival and the Berlin Sing-Akademie at the Palais Bellevue, Berlin (2001); paper on "What Do Democracies Really Want?" International Conference on Democracy, the Economy, and the Middle Class, Strassler Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Clark University (2004); commentator on papers on mass killing at the Mellon Seminar Series on Mass Violence and Genocide, Institute for the Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (2005, 2006); paper on "What does the Historiography of the Shoah Offer to the Historians of the Armenian Genocide?" symposium on "The Past as Present: Representations and Consequences of the Armenian Genocide," UC-Berkeley (all 2005); papers on aspects of Germany and the mass killings of Armenians: at the American Academy in Berlin, the Deutsch-Armenische Gesellschaft, Free University-Berlin, and Gonville and Gaius College, Cambridge University (all 2001), the Sawyer Seminar on Mass Killing at the Center for Advanced Study of the Behaviorial Sciences, Stanford University, and the Seminar on Genocide, Yale University (both 2002); Workshop of Armenian and Turkish Historians, University of Minnesota (2003); the Great War Society national meeting, Kansas City, MO; as Keynote address at International Conference on "Visions of the East: Orientalism and German National Culture," University of Toronto (both 2004); European Studies Program at UC-San Diego; Borderlands Workshop on Anatolia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia at Stanford University; Stanford Humanities Center; for the Extremism in the New Eurasia Series, Carnegie Seminar, at the Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC-Berkeley; the American Historical Association annual meeting; the Institute for European Studies, Harvard University (both 2006); Georgetown University; Harvard's Center for European Studies, Berlin (both 2007).

Personal Information

Married: to James J. Sheehan, an historian at a competing institution

One daughter: Sarah Elizabeth Raff, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Pomona College, Claremont, CA