Prof. Uta Poiger
Professor of History, Northeastern University
Ph.D., Brown University, 1995

Select Publications:

Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. Studies on the History of Society and Culture, eds. Lynn Hunt and Victoria Bonnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

(Ed., with Heide Fehrenbach) Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.

Editor, as part of the Modern Girl Around the World Research Project (Tani E. Barlow, Madeleine Yue Dong, Uta G. Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn M. Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum), The Modern Girl Around the World. Duke University Press, in press.

"Beauty, Business and German International Relations," WerkstattGeschichte 16, no. 45 (2007): 53-71.

"The Modern Girl Around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings," with the Modern Girl Around the World Research Project (Tani E. Barlow, Madeleine Yue Dong, Uta G. Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn M. Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum), Gender and History 17 (August 2005): 245-94.

"Women in Modern Germany." In Bonnie Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Women in World History, forthcoming.

"Imperialism and Consumption: Two Tropes in West German Radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s." In Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried, eds., Between Marx and Coca-Cola. Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006, 161-172.

"Empire and Imperialism in 20th-Century Germany," special Issue on "Histories and Memories of Twentieth-Century Germany," History and Memory 17 (2005): 117-43.

"Amerikanisierung oder Internationalisierung? Populärkultur in beiden deutschen Staaten," Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte B45 (November 2003): 17-24.

"American Jazz in the German Cold War." In Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter, eds., Music and German National Identity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, 218-33.

"Krise der Männlichkeit - Remasculinization in beiden deutschen Nachkriegsgesellschaften." In Klaus Naumann, ed., Auf Gewalt gegründet: Nachkrieg in Deutschland. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition HIS, 2001, 227-263.

"Die Ideologie des Kalten Krieges und die amerikanische Populärkultur." In Detlef Junker, ed., Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges 1945-1990. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001, 666-675.

"Beyond 'Modernization' and 'Colonization.'" Commentary in Roundtable, "U.S.-European Cultural Relations in the Twentieth Century." Diplomatic History 23 (Winter 1999): 45-56.

"A New, 'Western' Hero? Reconstructing German Masculinity in the 1950s." In Forum: "The Remasculinization of Postwar Germany." Signs 24 (Fall 1998): 147-162. Longer version in Hanna Schissler, ed., Revisiting the Miracle Years: West German Society from 1949 to 1968. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, 412-427.

"Jazz und (ost-)deutsche Respektabilität." In Peter Becker and Alf Lüdtke, eds. Akten, Eingaben, Schaufenster: Die DDR und ihre Texte. Erkundigungen zu Herrschaft und Alltag. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1997, 119-36.

"Rock 'n' Roll, Female Sexuality, and the Cold War Battle over German Identities," Journal of Modern History 68 (September 1996): 577-616.