Assistant Professor                                                                                                        

B.A. equivalent, Eberhard Karls University Tubingen                                                    
M.A. and Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Curriculum Vitae

email: thpegelowkaplan@davidson.edu

Office:  Chambers 2149
Phone:  704-894-2284

Mail:  Box 7009 Davidson College, Davidson NC  28035-7009

Professor Pegelow Kaplan teaches survey courses on modern European and Russian history and upper division classes in Holocaust, genocide and German studies.  His research focuses on media, culture, and identity in Nazi and postwar Germany and linguistic histories of comparative genocide in the modern world. He is the author of  The Language of Nazi Genocide: Linguistic Violence and the Struggle of Germans of Jewish Ancestry (Cambridge University Press, 2009).  Professor Pegelow Kaplan is currently working on a study that examines how social movements in West Germany and the United States in the 1960's and 1970's interacted in appropriating categories of genocide and mass murder and contributed to changes in their societies' memory cultures.

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan was awarded a prestigious research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/1600.html) The fellowship will provide generous funding for his archival work during his upcoming sabbatical in Germany.