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John Stambaugh Professor of History

Office: 431 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-6747
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: ivh1@cornell.edu

Office Hours: T 4:00-5:00

Courses

Fall 2009:
On Leave
Spring 2010:
2180
Seminar on Genocide
3790
The First World War: Causes, Conduct, Consequences

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 1978
M.Phil.Yale University, 1973
B.A. University of Michigan, 1970

Recent Publications and Awards

Publications

Forthcoming: a book “Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany” to appear in Fall 2004 with Cornell University Press.

Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.)

“Sexualstrafrecht und geschlechtsspezifische Normen in den deutschen Staaten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts,” in Ute Gerhard, ed., Frauenrechtsgeschichte (Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 1997), 221-34.

Selected Articles

“Adolph Freiherr von Knigge’s Uber den Umang mit Menschen: A Snapshot of Civil Society,” in The New History of German Literature, ed. David E. Wellberry, et.al. (Harvard University Press, forthcoming.)

“Johann Heinrich Gottlob von (1717-1771)” and “Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741-1796)”, in Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

“Military Culture and the Production of ‘Final Solutions’ in the Colonies: The Example of Wilhelminian Germany.” In Genocide in Historical Perspective, ed. Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 141-62.

“Military Culture, Wilhelm II, and the End of the Monarchy in World War I,” in The Kaiser, ed. Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 235-58.

Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association (1997) for the “most outstanding work in English on any aspect of the field of 17th- and 18th- Century European History” for Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany.

Berkshire Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (1997) for the best history book that year written by a woman, for Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany.