Publications and Conference Papers
Selected Publications:
Books:
(co-edited with Raffael Scheck and Fabien Théofilakis) German-occupied Europe in the Second World War. London: Routledge, 2019.
German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940-1944. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“For Their Own Good:” Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010, paperback 2014.
In progress:
Frozen Food and Empire (book-length manuscript)
Women of the Reich: German women as auxiliaries and administrators in occupied Europe (book-length manuscript)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
“A Women’s Occupation? Female Wehrmacht Auxiliaries in France and Europe, 1940-1944.” In Negotiating the Nazi Occupation of France: Gender, Power, and Memory (1940-1963), edited by Sandra Ott, 62-85. Centre for Basque Studies Press, University of Nevada, Reno, 2022.
“Besatzung oder Urlaub?,” Historische Urteilskraft: Magazin des deutschen historischen Museums 4 (2022): 46–51. Translated as “Occupation or Vacation?“ Historical Judgement: The Magazine of the German Historical Museum 4 (2022): 27-29.
“France’s Role in the Holocaust Revisited: A Reappraisal of Marrus and Paxton’s Vichy France and the Jews,” American Historical Review 126.4 (Dec. 2021): 1535–1551.
“Women of the Reich: German Military Auxiliaries and the Occupation of Europe.” In German-occupied Europe in the Second World War. Edited by Raffael Scheck, Fabien Théofilakis, Julia Torrie. London: Routledge, 2019.
“The Home Front.” In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, edited by Robert Gellately, 275-310. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. Reprinted in The Oxford History of the Third Reich, edited by Robert Gellately, 250–281. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023.
“Visible Trophies of War: German occupiers’ photographic perceptions of France, 1940-44.” In The Ethics of Seeing: 20th Century German Documentary Photography Reconsidered. Edited by Jennifer Evans et al., 108-37. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018.
“The Past, Present and Future of Book Reviews in Central European History,” Central European History 51.1 (Mar. 2018), 128-131.
“Frozen Food and National Socialist Expansionism, Global Food History, 2:1 (Mar. 2016), 51-73. Article reprinted in Culinary Infrastructure. Edited by Jeffrey Pilcher. New York: Routledge, 2017.
“The Possibilities of Protest in the Third Reich: The Witten Demonstration in Context,” in Nathan Stoltzfus, ed., Protest in Hitler's National Community (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015): 76-105.
“Transnational History and Civilian Evacuations: Broadening the Approach,” in Fabian Lemmes et al., eds. Evakuierungen im Europa der Weltkriege – Les évacuations dans l’Europe des guerres mondiales – Evacuations in World War Europe (Berlin: Metropol, 2014): 250-65.
“‘Our rear area probably lived too well’: Germans as tourists during the occupation of France, 1940-44,” Journal of Tourism History 3.3 (Nov. 2011), 309-30.
“The Many Aims of Assistance: The Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt and Aid to French Civilians in 1940,” War & Society (May 2007): 27-38.
“‘If only family unity can be maintained’: The Witten Protest and German Civilian Evacuations,” German Studies Review 29.2 (May 2006): 347-66.
Selected Presentations:
“Frozen Food, France and Imperialism in World War Two,” Joint Conference of the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History, Detroit, MI, Mar. 2023.
“Comment donner au soldat de la viande chaque jour? Frozen meat and World War One,” Seventh International Conference on Food History and Food Studies, Institut européen d’histoire et des cultures de l’alimentation, Tours, France, June 2022.
“Occupation or Vacation? Germans in France, 1940–44,” public lecture at symposium “Europe and Germany 1939-45: Violence in the museum,” Deutsches historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany, Mar. 2022.
“A Woman’s Occupation? Female Wehrmacht Auxiliaries in France and Europe, 1940-1944,” paper presented at Nazi Germany and Occupied France: Multi-Cultural Perspectives, William A. Douglass Centre for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, March 2020.
“Conquering Nature through Freezing Food,” paper presented at DGB 70: A Conference in Honor of David Blackbourn, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TE, Nov. 2019.
“Narrating Occupier Selves: Germans Abroad in Wartime, 1939-45,” paper presented at Life Stories, Personal Narratives, and Ego-Documents: Problems and Perspectives from German, Central and Eastern European History, Joint Workshop of the Cambridge DAAD Research Hub for German Studies and The German Historical Institute, Moscow, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Sept. 2018.
“The Media of Occupation: Books, Photographs and German soldiers in France, 1940-44,” paper presented at Audiences of Nazism: Media Effects and Responses, 1923-1945, Weizsäcker Conference, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, May 2018.
“‘Within – and yet without – its ranks:’ Justifying German women’s presence as occupiers in France,” paper presented at the German Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2017.
“Vulnerable agents? Female Wehrmacht Auxiliaries and Moral Surveillance,” paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Conference, Toronto, May 2017.