1 Jacobs University Bremen Res. IV, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany Tel.: +49 421 200 3371; Email: j.timpe@jacobs- university.de Academic Employment Jacobs University Bremen, Germany University Lecturer in Contemporary History, September 2016 to present Universität Bremen, Germany Universitätslektor, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, September 2013 to August 2016 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA College Fellow/ Lecturer on History, History Department, August 2012- June 2013 Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Instructor, Pre- College Summer Program, 2009-2013 Education Brown University, Providence, RI, USA PhD in History, May 2013 Dissertation Hitler s Happy People: Kraft durch Freude s Everyday Production of Joy in the Third Reich; Main Advisor: Omer Bartov MA in History, May 2007 Graduate Exchange Student, German Studies, 2004-2006 Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Germany Graduate Degree Program (Magister Artium), 2001 2006; in Modern and Contemporary History (major) and European Ethnology and Modern German Literature (minors) Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen, Germany Studium Generale, 2000-2001 (Competitive one- year general studies program of interdisciplinary and propaedeutic training with an emphasis on humanities/ social sciences.)
2 Research and Teaching Interests Modern European History Modern German History History of the Third Reich and the Holocaust Weimar Germany History of the Everyday Publications Nazi- organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich; forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, Winter 2016. Männer und Frauen bei fröhlichem Spiel : Ziele, Gestaltung und Aneignungsversuche von KdF- Betriebssport in: Sport und Nationalsozialismus, edited by Frank Becker and Ralf Schäfer (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016.) Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground (contributor; leading authors/editors: Andrew Bergerson and Leonard Schmieding); forthcoming with Berghahn Books, April 2017. Review of The German Right in the Weimar Republic: Studies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism and Antisemitism, ed. by Larry Eugene Jones; in Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d histoire 51 (2016) Issue 1. Teaching Experience Lecturer, Jacobs University Bremen [all classes taught in English] 2016, Fall: Contemporary European History Since 1789 (Lecture Course) 2016, Fall: Empires and Nations States (Lecture Course) 2016, Spring: International Relations in the Twentieth Century (Seminar) [as Adjunct Lecturer] 2015, Fall: Comparative Cultural History (Seminar) [as Adjunct Lecturer]
3 Teaching Experience (cont.) Lektorin, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen 2016, Spring: Germans into Nazis : Interwar Germany and the Rise of the Nazi Party, 1920-1939 (Seminar; in English) 2016, Spring: Der Zweite Weltkrieg in der regionalen Erinnerung - Bremen und Nikolajew [The Second World War and Local Commemoration: Bremen and Mykolaiv] (Seminar with Excursion; together with Ulrike Huhn) 2016, Spring: Grundlagen historischen Arbeitens [Principles of Historical Research] (Proseminar; 2 sections) 2016, Spring: bonjour.geschichte. Mitarbeit bei der Herausgabe eines geschichtswissenschaftlichen Online- Journals [bonjour.geschichte. Editing an Online History Journal] (Writing Workshop; together with Sarah Lentz) 2016, Spring: "Spurensuche in Bremen - Historische Orte des 20. Jahrhunderts [Seeking Traces of the Past - Historical Sites of the Twentieth Century in Bremen] (Seminar; together with Joachim Drews) 2016, Spring: BA- Kolloquium [BA- Colloquium] (Writing Workshop) 2015, Fall: Alltag im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland [Everyday Life under National Socialism] (Seminar) 2015, Fall: History of the Holocaust (Module with two seminars; in English) 2015, Fall: Grundlagen historischen Arbeitens [Principles of Historical Research] (Proseminar; 2 sections) 2015, Spring: Kindheit und Jugend im Nationalsozialismus [Childhood and Youth under National Socialism] (Proseminar) 2015, Spring: Alltag im 2. Weltkrieg [Everyday Life during World War II] (Seminar for Master students) 2015, Spring: Topics in Modern German History (Seminar; in English) 2014, Fall: Frauen im Nationalsozialismus [Women in the Third Reich] (Seminar) 2014, Fall: Kultur(politik) und Unterhaltung im Nationalsozialismus [Culture, Entertainment and Cultural Policy in the Third Reich] (Seminar) 2014, Fall: Grundlagen historischen Arbeitens [Principles of Historical Research] (Proseminar; two sections) 2014, Fall: BA- Kolloquium [BA- Colloquium] (Writing Workshop)
4 Teaching Experience (cont.) Lektorin, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen (cont.) 2013, Fall: Alltag im Stalinismus [Everyday Life Under Stalinism] (Proseminar) 2013, Fall: Aspekte der Geschichtsschreibung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts [Aspects of Historiography in the latter half of the Twentieth Century] (Proseminar) 2013, Fall: Politische Gewalt im Nationalsozialismus [Political Violence under National Socialism] (Seminar) Lecturer, History Department, Harvard University 2013, Spring: Living under a Dictatorship: Histories of Everyday Life in the Totalitarian Regimes of Twentieth Century Europe (Seminar) 2013, Spring: Consent and Coercion: The History of Nazi Germany (Lecture Course) 2012, Fall: Crises, Promises, Tragedies: The History of Weimar Germany (Research Seminar) Instructor, History Department, Brown University 2012, Spring: Crises, Promises, Tragedies: The History of Weimar Germany (Seminar) Instructor, Pre- College Program, Brown University 2013, Summer: The History of the Future, the Future of the Past (and Related Problems of the Present) (intensive 3- week pre- college summer course; together with Eoin Ryan) 2012, Summer: Berlin s Golden Twenties (intensive 1- week pre- college summer course) 2009, Summer: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (intensive 2- week pre- college summer course) [also taught Summer 2010, Summer 2011 and Summer 2013] Teaching Assistant, History Department, Brown University 2011, Fall: History of Brazil (course taught by James Green) 2009, Spring: Modern Latin America (course taught by Adrian Lopez- Denis) 2008, Fall: European Intellectual History: Exploring the Modern (course taught by Mary Gluck) 2008, Spring: Twentieth Century Russia (course taught by Ethan Pollock) 2007, Fall: Europe from Rome to the Eighteenth Century (course taught by Tara Nummedal)
5 Teaching Experience (cont.) Teaching Assistant, Department of German Studies, Brown University 2006, Spring: German 20 (Beginner- level German language course, part II) 2005, Fall: German 10 (Beginner- level German language course, part I) 2005, Spring: German 20 (Beginner- level German language course, part II) 2004, Fall: German 10 (Beginner- level German language course, part I) Conference Presentations and Invited Talks 2015, November 11, Spaß im Dritten Reich : Unterhaltung und Freizeitangebote durch die NS- Organisation Kraft durch Freude, Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin 2015, October 1-4, The Third Reich s Beauty Project : Schönheit der Arbeit and its Work in Germany s Factories and Countryside, Thirty- Ninth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC 2014, April 25: Alone only during sleep? On everyday life in the Third Reich, Nazi- organized leisure activities, and the creation of the Volksgemeinschaft, lecture for visiting student group from Northern Virginia Community College at USHMM, Washington, DC 2014, April 23: Nazi- organized Happiness and the Holocaust: On Kraft durch Freude s connections to Nazi Camps, Fellows Meeting, CAHS, Washington, DC 2014, March 25: Happiness and Destruction in the Third Reich: Kraft durch Freude and Nazi Concentration Camps, lecture for visiting student group from Alvernia University at USHMM, Washington, DC 2014, January 2-5: Picturing Hitler s Racial Community : Visual Propaganda of the Nazi Organizations Strength through Joy and German Labor Front, 128th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC 2013, October 3-6: Die Kunst dem Volke : On the Nazi project of Bringing Culture to German Workers in the Third Reich, Thirty- Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Denver, CO. 2012, October 4-7: One Just Ought to Enjoy Oneself : Nazi Entertainment during World War II, Thirty- Sixth Annual Conference, German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI. 2011, April 14: Hitler s Happy People: The Work of the Nazi Leisure Organization Strength Through Joy at Craving Happiness, Containing Anxiety, Brown University Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Providence, RI.
6 Conference Presentations and Invited Talks (cont.) 2011, September 22-25: Kraft durch Freude und die Produktion von Alltagsfreude im Dritten Reich, Thirty- Fifth Annual Conference, German Studies Association, Louisville, KY. 2011, June 15-18: Beautiful Villages, Happy Peasants: The Work of the Nazi Leisure Organization Strength through Joy in the German Countryside, at Quality versus Quantity: Competing Visions of Food, Farming & Rural Life, 2011 Agricultural History Society Conference, Springfield, IL. 2011, April 16: Transforming the Shop Floor into a Space of Leisure: The Nazi Leisure Organization s Program for German Workers in the Third Reich, at [Pre]Occupations: Working, Seizing, Dwelling, Fifth Annual Graduate Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. 2011, March 7: Nazi Ideology and Everyday Life: The Role of the Nazi Leisure Organization in Creating a racial community in the Third Reich, lecture, Brown University, History class Germany from 1914 to the Present; Instructor: Christopher Barthel. 2011, February 18-19: Strengthening the Volkskörper: Sports Activities of the Nazi Leisure Organization Kraft durch Freude during the Third Reich at Sports, Athletics, and the Body in Germanic Literature and Culture, Third Annual Germanic Graduate Student Association Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 2011, February 1: Recreation for the Reich: The Work of the Nazi Leisure Organization Strength through Joy at Rational Recreation: Histories of Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Postgraduate Conference, University of Manchester, UK. 2010, April 9-10: Making Good Use of Germans Leisure Time: On the Nazi Leisure Organization Strength through Joy at Uselessness, ICLS Graduate Student Conference 2010, Columbia University, New York, NY. 2009, April 10-11: Kraft durch Freude: On the Nazi Leisure Organization Strength through Joy at Graduate Student Conference Politics of Consumption and Leisure, Southern Illinois University- Carbondale, Carbondale, IL. Awards, Honors and Fellowships 2016: Shortlisted for Berninghausen- Preis for Excellence in Teaching (University Bremen), together with Dr. Ulrike Huhn, for course Der Zweite Weltkrieg in der regionalen Erinnerung - Bremen und Nikolajew [The Second World War and Local Commemoration: Bremen and Mykolaiv 2014: Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
7 Awards, Honors and Fellowships (cont.) 2013: Certificate of Teaching Excellence by Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University 2011: William G. McLoughlin Fellowship, History Department, Brown University 2011-2012: Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Brown University 2010-2011: Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University 2009-2010: Research Travel Fellowship, Brown University 2009: Brown- Berlin Fellowship, German Studies, Brown University and Humboldt University, Berlin (declined) 2009: GHI Archival Summer Seminar Fellowship 2007-2009: Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Brown University 2006-2007: Chancellor Stephen Robert Fellowship, Brown University 2004-2004: Study Abroad Fellowship, Humboldt University, Berlin Academic Service 2015 - present: Co- Coordinator, Colloquium Early Modern and Modern Germany History, History Department, Bremen University 2012 2013: Co- Chair, German Study Group, Center of European Studies, Harvard University 2011-2012: Graduate Student Coordinator, Modern European Workshop, History Department, Brown University 2011, April 22 23: Co- Chair, (Re)Making Myths: The Creation, Use, and Abuse of Myths in German Literature, History, and Culture, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, German Studies Department and History Department, Brown University 2011, April 9: Commentator on Panel Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Community Through War at Graduate Student Conference Borderlands and Meeting Points, Brown University 2009, April 17 18: Member, Planning Committee for Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Tensions in Society and Scholarship, History Department, Brown University 2005-2006: Graduate Student Liaison, The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University (for Department of German Studies) 2005-2007: Coordination Conversional Social Hour ( Kaffeestunde ), Department of German Studies, Brown University
8 Professional Experience 2012, February October: Research Assistant for Prof. Omer Bartov, Brown University, Providence, RI Assisted in the final phases of the book project Shatterzones of Empires (eds. Omer Bartov and Eric Weitz) and helped to organize the workshop Borderlands: Imperialism, Colonialism, Environment and Culture in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sept. 22 24, 2012 (conveners: Omer Bartov, Wendy Lower and Eric Weitz.) 2011, September: Research Facilitator, Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Smith College, Northampton, MA Advised students on their individual research project conducted as part of the 2011-2012 Kahn projects Evil and Renaissances: A Multiplicity of Rebirth. My advisees included students with majors in history, philosophy, art history and chemistry. 2004, March: Internship Lower- Saxonian Archives, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Assisted archivists in cataloging of archival collections and conducted research on various topics in response to inquiries made to the archive. 2003, August - October: Internship, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany Assisted curators in the preparation of an exhibition about WW I ( Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918: Ereignis und Erinnerung, May 13- August 18, 2004; main curator: Dr. Rainer Rother. 1998, January: Internship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Assisted library staff in cataloging books, customer service and preparing of publications. Additional Training 2012, May: Teaching Certificate II, The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate for having successfully completed a year- long Professional Development seminar. 2005, May: Teaching Certificate I, The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate for having successfully completed a year- long program that introduces participants to the basic elements of a reflective teaching practice. Languages German (Native) English (Fluent) French (Intermediate