Michael Patrick McConnell 6920 Ellesmere Drive Knoxville, Tennessee, 37921 Tel: (865) 934-7351 Email: mmcconn7@utk.edu EDUCATION 2011-2015 Doctoral Candidate, University of Tennessee 2009-2011 Doctoral Student, University of Tennessee 2007-2009 M.A., History program, University of Alabama 2004-2005 Study at Kaiser Wilhelm Universität, Münster, Germany 2004 B.A., University of Alabama at Birmingham ACADEMIC HONORS 2014 Harry Frank Guggenheim, Dissertation Writing Fellowship 2012 Dissertation Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial, Washington, D.C. 2011 Doctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. William B. Anderson Award, History Department, University of Tennessee 2010 McClure Scholarship for the Study of World Affairs, University of Tennessee Bernadotte Schmidt Award, History Department, University of Tennessee 2009 J. Wallace and Katie Dean Graduate Fellowship, University of Tennessee Albert Burton Moore Memorial Award, University of Alabama 2008 Dorot Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS 2014 Police Lines, Do Not Cross: Contemporary Police Militarization, University of Tennessee Humanities Center, Special Workshop on Police Militarization, Knoxville, Tennessee. Conviction amidst Collapse: The Role of Experience and Ideology within the Secret State Police, 1944-1945. German History Society, Maynooth, Ireland. Cohesion in the Face of Collapse: The Nazi Prison System at the end of World War II. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. 2012 Lands of Unkultur: Mass Violence, Landscape, and the Nazi Vision of Eastern Europe. Corpses of Genocide and Mass Violence Conference. Paris, France. Endkampf or Bandenkampf? The Forced Evacuation of the Rhineland, Autumn 1944. Fellows Symposium, United States Holocaust Memorial, Washington, D.C. 2011 Germans Behaving Badly: Violence in the Rhineland 1944-1945. Research Symposium, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Stasi Kneipe Zur Firma: Erlebnisgastronomie or Tasteless Misrepresentation? Southeastern German Studies Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia. 2010 German Studies Association, Oakland, California. Conference for the Society of Military Historians, Virginia Military Institute. 2009 Conference for the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University. Holocaust Studies Conference, Middle Tennessee State University. Seeing Beyond the State: New Interpretations of Mass Violence During Nazism and Stalinism. Mid American Conference on History, University Of Oklahoma. Die Lage ist wieder ruhiger..: Gestapo Crimes in the Rhineland, Fall 1944. University of Alabama Graduate Conference on Power and Struggle
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Articles Cohesion in the Face of Collapse: The Nazi Prison System at the end of World War II in Freilegungen. Spielgelüngen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen, Rebecca Boehling, Susanne Urban, Elizabeth Anthony, eds. (Göttingen: Wallenstein Verlag, 2015). Lands of Unkultur: Mass Violence and the Conception of Space and Peoples in the Nazi East in Jean Marc Dreyfus, ed. Destruction and Human Remains. (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2013). The Situation is Once Again Quiet: Gestapo Crimes in the Rhineland, Fall 1944. The Journal of Central European History, Volume 45, Issue 1 (March) 2012. Book Reviews Peter Longerich, Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe, trans., Heinrich Himmler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), in History: Reviews of New Books (forthcoming, 2015). Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans, eds. Racial Science in Hitler s New Europe 1938-1945, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013). H-Net Reviews, September 2014. Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, and Martin Gerster, eds. Strategien der extremen Rechten: Hintergründe, Analysen, Antworten (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2009) in Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 8, 1 (March 2010). Thomas Wegener Friis, Kristie Macrakis and Helmut Müller-Engbergs, eds. East German Foreign Intellience: Myth, Reality, and Controversy (New York: Routledge, 2010), in Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 8, 3 (September 2010). Encyclopedia Entries: Geoffrey Megargee, Martin Dean, Christopher Browning, ed. United States Holocaust Memorial, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume II (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2012). Entries: Virbalis, Ligumai, Eržvilkas, Deblin, Borysław, Baranów, Kudirkos Naumiestis, Zhovka. Co authored with Alexander Kruglov: Zolkiew, Chërnyi Ostrov, Bielsk Podlaski. Co authored with Steven Seegel: Stryj, Kupiŝkis, Konskowola, Lazdijai.
Geoffrey Megargee, Martin Dean, Christopher Browning, ed. United States Holocaust Memorial, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume IV (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press). (Forthcoming) Entries: Brauweiler, Klingelpütz, EL DE Haus, Hunswinkel bei Lüdenscheid, Hückelhoven, Essen Frintrop, Essen Viehoferstrasse, Essen Karnap, Essen Mülheim, Köln Deutz, Münster Harnap, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen, Sonderlager Dechenschule, Marl, Stapostelle Köln. TEACHING EXPERIENCE At the University of Tennessee: Postdoctoral Lectureship, Western Civilization II (2015-Present) Assistant to the Director, Center for the Study of War and Society (2015-2015) Instructor, World Civilization II (Summer 2014) Teaching Assistant, World Civilization II (Spring 2014) Co-instructor, Europe in the Age of Total War, 1900-2000 (Fall 2013) Assistant to the Director, Center for the Study of War and Society At the University of Alabama: Teaching Assistant, History of Western Civilization I (Fall, 2008) Teaching Assistant, History of Western Civilization II (Spring, 2009) RESEARCH INTERESTS Modern European History Modern German History Mass Violence Teaching World History The Philosophy of History War and Society Security Studies Research Techniques and Methodologies Police Militarization LANGUAGES English (native speaker) German (fluent) Dutch (intermediate reading) Polish (beginning)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS German Studies Association German History Society Conference Group for Central European History Society for Military History Association for the Study of Nationalities Currently under contract as a researcher for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos project.