John Connelly
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: 2218 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Monday and Wednesday 4:15-5:15pm
Phone: (510) 642-6779
Email: jfconnel@berkeley.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1994 Harvard University, History
M.A. 1988 Harvard University, History
B.S.F.S. 1982 Georgetown University, International Relations, magna cum laude
Research and Teaching
Modern East and Central European Political and Social History; Comparative Education, History of Nationalism.
Academic Honors and Awards
Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2002-03
George L. Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, 2002
Spencer Fellow, 1996-98
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1993-94
Krupp Foundation (Harvard) and Fulbright research grants; Czechoslovakia, Poland; 1991-92
Sheldon (Harvard) and International Research and Exchange Council research grants; East Germany, Czechoslovakia; 1990-91
Graduate Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1989-present
Arthur Scramuzza Scholarship (Harvard); Cambridge, MA; 1987-89
Mellon language grant, Pushkin Institute, Moscow, Summer 1986
Polish government scholarship for study of Polish History, Krakow, 1983-85
German Academic Exchange Service Grant (DAAD) for study of political science, Heidelberg, 1982-83
82nd Airborne Division Association Scholarship, Georgetown University, 1978-82
Professional Service
Co-director, UC Berkeley History Social Science Project (an outreach program for high schools
North American Editor, Contemporary European History
Editorial Board, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Marburg
Selected Publications
Universitäten in den Diktaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts: Zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2002), co-edited with Michael Grüttner Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 (University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
"The Sovietization of Higher Education in the Czech Lands, East Germany, and Poland During the Stalinist period (1948-54)," in György Péteri and Michael David-Fox, eds., Academia in Upheaval (Greenwood, 2000).
"Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice," Central European History, 32:1 (1999), 1-33.
"The Administration of Higher Education in East Germany, 1945-1948," in Manfred Heinemann, ed., Zwischen Restauration und Innovation. Bildungsreformen in Ost und West nach 1945 (Cologne, 1999), 163-197.
"Hochschulpolitik in der CSR in vergleichender Perspektive 1945-1954" [Czech Higher Education Policy in Comparative Perspective] in Veda v Ceskoslovensku v letech 1945-1953 [Science in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1945-1953] (Prague, 1999), 247-254.
"The Foundations of Diversity: Communist Higher Education Policies in Eastern Europe, 1945-1955," in Kristie Macrakis and Dieter Hoffmann, eds., Science under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, MA, 1999), 125-139. [Reprinted in German in Hoffmann and Macrakis, eds., Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der DDR (Berlin, 1997)]
"Stalinismus und Hochschulpolitik in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1945," ["Stalinism and Higher Education Policies in East Central Europe after 1945"] Geschichte und Gesellschaft 24:1 (1998), 5-23.
"Szkolnictwo wyzsze w Europie S:rodkowej i Wschodniej w epoce stalinizacji" [Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe in the Stalinist Epoch] in Roman Bäcker and Piotr Hübner, eds., Skryte oblicze systemu komunistycznego (Warsaw, 1997), 225-234.
"Die ostmitteleuropäische Presse als Quelle zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Stalinzeit," ["The East Central European Press as a Source for the Social History of Stalinism"], in Eduard Mühle, ed., Vom Instrument der Partei zur "vierten Gewalt": die ostmitteleuropäische Presse als zeithistorische Quelle (Marburg, 1997), 111-114.
"Humboldt Coopted: East German Universities, 1945-1989" in Mitchell G. Ash, ed., German Universities, Past and Future (Berghahn, 1997)
"Communist Higher Education Policies in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany," Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii, eds., The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 (Westview, 1997)
"Projekt reformy personalnej polonistyki uniwersyteckiej Stefan Zolkiewskiego z 1950 roku," Arcana 2 (1997), 93-113 (with Teresa Suleja).
"Foundations for Reconstructing Elites: Higher Education Policies in the Czech Lands, East Germany, and Poland, 1945-1948," East European Politics and Societies, Fall 1996
"Freie Meinungsäußerung auch außerhalb der Partei?" ("Freedom of Speech outside the Party?") Deutschland Archiv, 29:5 (1996)
"The Uses of 'Volksgemeinschaft': Letters to the NSDAP Kreisleitung Eisenach, 1939-1940," Journal of Modern History, 68:4 (1996)
"Internal Bolshevisation? Elite Social Science Training in
Stalinist Poland," Minerva 34 (1996)
"Die Partei bestimmte, wer Antifaschist war," ("The
Party Determined Who Was an Antifascist") Deutschland
Archiv, 29:2 (1996)
"East German Higher Education Policies and Student Resistance, 1945-1948," Central European History 28:3 (1995)
"Zur 'Republikflucht' von DDR-Wissenschaftlern in den fünfziger Jahren," ["On Emigration of East German Scholars in the 1950's"] Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 42:4 (1994)
"Working in the East German Archives", Arbeitskreis Nachkriegsgeschichte Newsletter, (3) Winter 1991
"Moment of Revolution: Plauen (Vogtland), October 7, 1989", German Politics and Society, (20) Summer 1990
"East Germany Needs West's Help, Not Occupation", Boston Globe, January 29, 1990
Translation of Adam Zagajewski's "Wysoki Mur" ["A High Wall"], Cross Currents, (7) 1987 (with Joy Dvorkin)
"The Peaceniks of East Germany", The Nation, December 10, 1983 (under pseudonym of "Aaron Reid")
Reviews
"Poles and Jews in the Second World War: the Revisions of Jan T. Gross," Contemporary European History, 11, 4 (2002), 641-58.
Jan Foitzik, ed., Entstalinisierungskrise in Ostmitteleuropa 1953-1956. Vom 17. Juni bis zum ungarischen Volksaufstand. Politische, militärische, soziale, und nationale Dimensionen, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung 51:4 (2002) 591-594.
Alan L. Nothnagle, Building the East German Myth: Historical Mythology and Youth Propaganda in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1989 (Ann Arbor, 1998), Central European History, 34:4 (2001).
Gareth Pritchard. The Making of the GDR 1945–53: From Antifascism to Stalinism. (New York: Manchester University Press,2000), American Historical Review, 106:4 (Oct. 2001), 1488-89.
Ivan T. Berend, Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II (Berkeley, 1998), Journal of Economic History, 59:4 (1999), 1096-98.
Andrzej Palczak, Procesy stalinizacji w Polsce w latach 1947-1956 [Processes of Stalinization in Poland, 1947-56](Zabrze 1996), Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung 49:3 (2000), 438-40.
Richard Bessel and Ralph Jessen, eds. Die Grenzen der Diktatur: Staat und Gesellschaft in der DDR [The Limits of Dictatorship: State and Society in the GDR] (Göttingen, 1996) in Central European History 32:1 (1999), 133-137.
Patrik von zur Mühlen, Der "Eisenberger Kreis": Jugendwiderstand und Verfolgung in der DDR, 1953-1958 [The "Eisenberg Circle": Youth Opposition and Persecution in the GDR, 1953-1958] (Bonn, 1995) in Central European History 30:4 (1997), 628-630.
Sovetizace vychodni Evropy. Zeme stredni a jihovychodni Evropy v letech 1944-1948 [The Sovietization of Eastern Europe. The Lands of Central and East Central Europe in the Years 1944-1948] (Prague, 1995) in Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa Forschung 47:2 (1998), 277-278.
Hans-Werner Fuchs and L.R. Reuter, eds., Bildungspolitik seit der Wende: Dokumente zum Umbau des ostdeutschen Bildungssystems (1989-1994) [Educational Policies after the Wende: Documents on East German Educational Reforms (1989-1994)] (Opladen, 1995) in German Studies Review 20:2 (1997), 371-372.
Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach, Lower Silesia from Nazi Germany to Communist Poland 1942-49, in German Studies Review 19:1 (1996), 183-184.
H. James and M. Stone, eds., When the Wall Came Down, German Politics and Society, (28) Spring 1993
Scholarly Presentations
18 November 2003, "The Catholic Church and the Race Question: the 1930s," Stanford University, Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies
22 August 2003: "Between Milieu and Biography: Catholic Opponents of National Socialism in 1930s Vienna," Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany
2 April 2003, "Tolerance in a time of intolerance," Villanova University, Pennsylvania
13 February 2003: "Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice," Princeton University, Department of History
2 February 2003: "Reflections of Social Change: Polish Rural Sociology, 1930-1965," Collegium Budapest
7 June 2002: "Nazi Racial Policies in Eastern Europe," Workshop: "Raum, Rasse, Siedlung. Der General Plan Ost im Kontext von ethnischer Säuberung, Besatzungspolitik, und Wissenschaft, Berlin, Harnack-Haus
25 October 2001, Seminar in the Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA, on Captive University
23 June 2001, "Recent East European historiography," Conference organized by Center for European Studies, Harvard University at the Hilton Hotel in Dresden, Germany.
8 January 2001, World Affairs Council of Northern California, talk on modern Polish history
16 December 2000, "A Prehistory of Globalization in East Central Europe, 1918-1968," International Workshop: "Discourses of Global Ambitions and Global Failures," Collegium Budapest: Institute for Advance Study
28 November 2000, Seminar in the History Department at Stanford University on Captive University
10 November 2000, "Explaining the Durability of East German Communism: The Early Postwar Years," Annual Convetnion of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Denver
20 April 2000, "East Germany after the Wall," World Affairs Council of Northern California, Marin Chapter
31 March 2000, "Writing East European History After Communism," Twelfth International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Chicago
13-17 August 1999, "The Milieu of Polish Professors," at conference "Patronage under Social Democracy and State Socialism. A Comparative Study of Academic and Artistic Life in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe," Trondheim University, Norway
23-24 April 1999, "The Location of Eastern Europe," at symposium "The Future of European Studies: Perspectives and Methods at the Millennium," University of California at Berkeley
12 March 1999, "Higher Education Reform in Post-Communist Eastern Europe," Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference: "New Elites in Post-Communist Societies," Slavic Center, University of California at Berkeley
18-19 November 1998, "Czech higher education policy in comparative perspective," at conference "Science in Czechoslovakia, 1945-53," Charles University, Prague
5 March 1997: "Die Sowjetisierung des Hochschulwesens in Ostmitteleuropa," (The Sovietization of Higher Education in East Central Europe) Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany.
28 February 1997, "Die Presse als Quelle zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Stalinzeit" (The Press as a Source for the Social History of East Central Europe) at conference "Die ostmitteleuropäische Presse seit 1945 als zeithistorische Quelle" Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany.
18 September 1996, "Divergenzen in der ostmitteleuropäischen Erfahrung des Stalinismus, dargestellt am Beispiel der Hochschulpolitik" German Historians' Association Annual Meeting, Munich
27 August 1996, "East German Stalinism in East European Perspective," Institut für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam
19 August 1996, "The Offensives of the SED Leadership against Intellectuals, 1953-58," Workshop on "1956 and the Intellectuals," Trondheim, Norway
17 May 1996, "Czech and East German Student Resistance, 1945- 48," Halle Forum 1996 Wissenschaft und Macht: Die "Sowjetisierung von Wissenschaftsinstitutionen, Wissenschaftsdisziplinen und Wissenschaftskonzepten seit der Oktoberrevolution in Osteuropa (Science and Power: The "Sovietization of Scientific Institutions, Disciplines and Concepts in Eastern Europe since the October Revolution), Halle, Germany
23 April 1996, "Eastern Europe in Transition: Does History Matter?" The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco
11 April 1996, "Geographic, Historical, and Cultural Overview" in series: East Central Europe in Transition, World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco
17 November 1995, "Researching the Soviet Occupation Zone," Eastern German Studies Group Conference, Stanford University
2 November 1995, "Humboldt coopted: East German Universities 1945-1989," Conference on German Universities, Past and Future (Organized by the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies and Prof. Mitchell Ash, University of Iowa)
27 October 1995, "The Sovietization of Universities in the Czech Lands, East Germany, and Poland, 1949-54," National American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention, Washington, DC
15 September 1995, "The Foundations of Diversity: Communist Higher Education Policies in Eastern Europe, 1945-55," Conference on Science under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective, Conway, New Hampshire
December 1994, "Stalinism and the Polish Professorate,"
Conference on "Academia in Upheaval," Uppsala, Sweden