Andrew C. Donson
Assistant Professor
Departments
of History and
German and Scandinavian Studies
Ph.D.,
European and German History
The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2000
Don't do this in class:
Max Beckmann, Die Gähnenden (The Yawners), 1918
I am on leave for the 2007-2008 academic year
Hist 101: Western Thought Since 1600
Germ 376 / Hist 387: The Holocaust
Germ 793D / Hist 697K: The Weimar Republic
Western Civilization to 1600
Die deutsche Geschichtsschreibung
History of Childhood and Adolescence
Advanced English: Writing and Grammar
19th-Century Europe: Liberalism and Its Critics
20th-Century Europe: Fascism, Communism, Modernism
Great Books: Greek, Roman, Biblical, and Renaissance
Great Books: Greek Epic, Drama, History, and Philosophy
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany, and the history of youth, women, nationalism, socialism, and liberalism.
Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918. Under review at Harvard University Press.
Winner of the 2007 Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History"From War Pedagogy to Reform Pedagogy: Education and Youth Reform before 1914 and the Mobilization for War in Germany." Raising Citizens in the “Century of the Child:" Child-rearing and Education in the United States and Central Europe in the 20th Century. Ed. Dirk Schumann. New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming.
"Why Did German Youth Become Fascists? Nationalist Males Born 1900 to 1908 in War and Revolution." Social History 31 (2006): 337-58.
"Models for Young Nationalists and Militarists: Youth Literature in the First World War." German Studies Review 27 (2004): 575-94.
The American Historical Association
The German Studies Association
The German Historical Institute
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Univ. of Mass. History Department
Univ. of Mass. Germanic Languages and Literatures
WorldCat (Univ. of Massachusetts)
German and Scandinavian Studies
505 Herter Hall
The University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel. 413.545.6676 Fax 413.545.6695
Email: adonson@german.umass.edu