Alice Weinreb
Assistant Professor of History
Loyola University of Chicago
[email protected]
1302 W. Carmen Ave, #2
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 878-1289
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Loyola University of Chicago, 2013-present
Assistant Professor, Utah State University, 2012-2013
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 2009-2012
Instructor, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2002-2003
EDUCATION
PhD in History, University of Michigan, 2009
Dissertation: "Matters of Taste: The Politics of Food and Hunger in Divided Germany"
Committee: Kathleen Canning and Scott Spector (Co-Chairs); Geoff Eley; Alaina Lemon
MA in History, 2006
Exam Fields: Modern Germany; European Gender History; Comparative Colonialisms
MA in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2003
MA Thesis: "Der Geschmack des anderen Deutschlands: Essen, Kochen und Kultur im
Aufbau einer geschlechtspezifischen nationalen Identität in der DDR" [The Taste of the
Other Germany: Food, Cooking, and Culture in the Construction of a Gendered National
Identity in the GDR]
Certificate, Urban Studies/Gender Studies, International Women’s University and
University of Kassel, Germany, 2000
BA in Women’s History (cum Laude), Columbia College, Columbia University, 1999
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
Manuscript
Modern Hungers: Food, War, and Germany in the Twentieth Century. (Book manuscript in progress)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
"Embodying German Suffering: Rethinking Popular Hunger during the Hunger Years,"
(solicited article). Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte (3) 2013.
"Hot Lunches in the Cold War: The Politics of School Lunches in Divided Germany" in
Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys 1945-1989,
Karen Hagemann and Sonja Michel eds. (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Press, 2013.)
"For the Hungry have no Past nor do they belong to a Political Party: Debates over German
Hunger after World War II." Central European History (44:1) March 2012.
"The Tastes of Home: Cooking the Lost Heimat in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s."
German Studies Review (34:2) May 2011.
Non-Peer Review Journal Articles and Chapters
"Matters of Taste: The Politics of Food in Divided Germany, 1945-1971" (Fritz Stern Prize
Essay), Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (48) Spring 2011.
"Die sozialistische Schulspeisung: Kinder, Mütter und die Bedeutung der Arbeit in der
DDR" in Hunger, Ernährung und Rationierungssysteme unter dem Staatssozialismus.
Matthias Middell and Felix Wemheuer eds. (Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2011.)
"The Socialist School Lunch: Children, Mothers, and the Meaning of Work in the GDR" in
Hunger, Nutrition and Rationing under State Socialism, 1917-2006, Mathias Middell and Felix
Wemheuer, eds. (University of Leipzig Press: Leipzig, 2010.)
"Männer im Frauenland: Männerdarstellungen in einer ostdeutschen Frauenzeitschrift" [Men
in a Women’s Land: Representations of Men in an East German Women’s Magazine] in Acta
Universitatis Latviensis, Literature, Folklore, Art Scientific Papers, Ausma Cimdina, ed. (Riga:
University of Latvia Press, 2004).
Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Review of Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe edited by Ina Zweininger-Bargielowska,
Rachel Duffett, and Alain Drouard. Agricultural History (in progress).
Review of The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy by Bill
Winders. Environmental History, Spring 2013.
"Cold War Politics of the Kitchen – Americanization, Technological Transfer, and European
Consumer Society in the Twentieth Century." http://www.hnet.org/reviews/
showrev.php?id=27939: H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews, 2005.
Music and the Holocaust (online encyclopedia): http://holocaustmusic.ort.org. World ORT,
2006. Composed 96 short articles on musicians connected to the history of the Holocaust.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Center for Women and Gender Faculty Research Grant, Utah State University, Summer
2013
SSRC-New York University Press Book Fellowship to support the timely completion of
a first scholarly manuscript, Andrew Mellon Foundation, 2010-2011
Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for the Best Dissertation in German History written at a
North American University: German Historical Institute, 2010
Arthur Fondiler Dissertation Award for Best Dissertation of 2009: Department of
History, University of Michigan, 2010
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ProQuest 2009 Distinguished Dissertation Awards Competition (Honorable Mention,
one of eight awarded across the university): University of Michigan, 2010
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: University of Michigan, 2008-2009
Culture and the Rhetoric of Critical Discourse: Mellon Humanities Summer Dissertation
Seminar, University of Michigan, 2008
SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF): Andrew
Mellon Foundation, 2006-2007
Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Visiting Fellow: Free
University of Berlin, 2006-2007
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship: Intermediate Russian,
University of Michigan, 2004-2005
Rackham Regents Fellowship: University of Michigan, 2003-2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Fields
Modern Germany; transnational Europe; global health, food and famine; environmental
history of the twentieth century; history of the family; racism in modern Europe
Courses offered
Utah State University:
European History: Western Civilization, History of the Family in Europe, Modern
Germany
Northwestern University:
Global History: Hunger in Global Perspective (cross-listed with Global Health); The
Communist Family; The Making of the American Meal; The History and Politics of
Natural Resources in the 20th Century World (cross-listed with Environmental Policy
and Culture program)
European History: Race and Racism in Modern Germany (cross-listed with German
Studies); History of Germany, 1789-1989; From World War to Cold War: The
Politics and Cultures of the Occupation of Germany; Germany since 1945; Food,
Hunger and Power in Modern Europe; Women and the Family in 19th and 20th
Century Europe; History of Western Civilization
University of Michigan (Teaching Assistant):
History of the Holocaust
Languages and Sciences of Race (Writing Intensive Course)
University of Potsdam, Germany:
Introduction to Translation, German-English
Advanced Essay Writing: Rhetoric and Composition
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Teacher Training and Related Activities
New Faculty Teaching Academy, Utah State University, 2012-2013
Year-long pedagogy program emphasizing cross-disciplinary teaching techniques
Teaching Fellow, Searle Fellows Program: Searle Center for Teaching Excellence,
Northwestern University, 2010-2011.
Nominated as a new 'teacher of excellence;' completed year-long training program
emphasizing assessment strategies and multi-media work in the classroom.
"Writing Across the Disciplines" Teacher Training Program, Sweetland Writing Center,
University of Michigan, 2007
Intensive course on strategies for teaching writing skills across the social sciences.
INVITED LECTURES
"Hitler's Fears: How Hitler Harnessed the Political Power of Fear." Phi Alpha Theta:
History Honors Society, Utah State University, October 2012
"Hunger and Modernity: Empires, Wars and States" (series of lectures), Food Glorious Food.
Alumni Continuing Education Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Spring 2012
"Teaching Food Issues: Dealing with Politics, Race, and the Environment in the
Classroom." Brown Bag Series on Food Economies, Chicago Area Food Studies Working Group,
Chicago, IL 2011
"Creating the Pathological Body: Negotiating Modern Jewish-ness through the American
Anorexic." Women’s History Month Lecture Series. Women’s Center, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL 2011
"Hot Lunches in the Cold War: School Lunches and the Construction of a Gendered Labor
Ideology in the German Democratic Republic." Faculty & Fellows Colloquium, Buffett Center
for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University Evanston, IL 2010
"Hungry for the East: Desire and Appetites in Western Representations of the GDR after
the Wende." The Fall of the Wall Reconsidered. Evanston, IL 2009
"Making the GDR: Constructing a Socialist Society in the East after 1945." (Berlin Program
Alumni Roundtable) Thirty-Second Annual German Studies Association Conference. Minneapolis,
MN 2008
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"A Labor of Love: Domestic Cooking as Authentic Labor in the German Democratic
Republic." Food for Thought: Culture and Cuisine in Russia and Eastern Europe.” Austin, February
2014
"Fat in the Cold War: East and West German Debates over the Meaning and Treatment of
Obesity in the 1970s and 1980s." Obesity, Health, and the Liberal State: Transatlantic Perspectives on
the late Nineteenth and the late Twentieth Century. German Historical Institute: Washington DC,
September 2013
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"Food, Blood, and Soil: The Politics of Land, Race, and Nutrition in Nazi Germany."
American Society for Environmental History Conference. Madison, WI 2012
"Feeding German Families: The Home-Cooked Meal in the Two Postwar German States."
Thirty-Fourth German Studies Association Conference. Oakland, CA 2010
"Skinnier than They Look, or Fatter than They Feel? Struggles over the Embodiment of
Victimhood in Germany after WWII." Thirty-Third Annual German Studies Association
Conference. Washington D.C. 2009
"Taking Food out of the Mouths of Hungry Germans: Fantasies of Food Theft in the
FRG." Midwest German History Workshop. Toronto, Canada 2008
"Socialism’s Belly: the Meaning of Food in the GDR." Writing East German History: What
Difference Does the Cultural Turn Make? Ann Arbor, MI 2008
"The Taste of Past and Future: Representing Continuity and Rupture in Cold War German
Cookbooks." Northeast Modern Language Association’s Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention. Buffalo,
NY 2008
"Hungering For a Nation: A Comparative Analysis of Nazi, East and West German State
Models of Hunger and Satiety." Consumption Constrained: Austerity and Rationing in the 20th
Century. Tartu, Estonia 2007
"The Powers of Hunger: the Role of the German Hunger Years in Negotiating Past and
Future, 1945-49." Practices and Power in the Everyday Life of the Twentieth Century: Symposium in
Honor of Alf Lüdtke. Ann Arbor, MI 2007
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Symposium Co-Organizer, Responses to the Holocaust: Religious, Cultural & Personal,
Departments of Religious Studies and History, Utah State University, March and April, 2013
Public Lecture, "Cooking History: Science, Imagination, and the Power of Cookbooks",
Center for Women and Gender, Utah State University, March 2013
Panel Chair and Commentator, 2013 Utah Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta
(Honors History Organization), "Culture as History," March 2013
Advisor and Interviewee, student-made historical documentary film "Hitler’s Decision: the
1936 Olympics" (State of Utah History Fair winner in age division), February 2013
Panel Organizer and Commentator, "Measuring Hunger: Moral, Medical, and Ethical
Issues in defining Famine," in Food Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Chicago, April 2013
Conference Co-Organizer, Food Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. International Conference,
Chicago, April 2013
Commentator, "Visualizing Adenauer’s Germany." Thirty-Sixth Annual German Studies
Association Conference. Milwaukee, October 2012
Invited Discussant and Moderator for documentary film The Apple Pushers. A public
outreach panel on food and immigration in New York City. The Center for Civic
Engagement, Northwestern University, May 2012
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Speaker. Nominated by students to be one of five professors campus-wide to participate in
the Globemed World Day of Social Justice. Northwestern University, February 2012
Founding Member, "Chicago Area Food Studies Working Group (CAFS)." Institute for
the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2011
Faculty Affiliate, "Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities." Northwestern University,
2010-2011
Commentator, "Gender and Post-Socialism," SOYUZ Symposium: Old and New
Discourses and Ideologies of Power: Postsocialist Perspectives. Northwestern University,
April 9-10, 2010
LANGUAGES
German – fluent in speaking, reading and writing
Russian – elementary in speaking and reading
Latin – fluent in reading
MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
American Society for Environmental History
Chicago Area Food Studies Working Group
Conference Group for Central European History
German Studies Association
REFERENCES
Kathleen Canning, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of History, University of
Michigan. 734.763.9937 / [email protected]
Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History,
Department of History, University of Michigan. 734.763.2289 / [email protected]
Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, The
Cooper Union. 212.353.4277 / [email protected]
Susan Levine, Professor of History and Director, UIC Institute for the Humanities,
University of Illinois-Chicago. 312.413.9165 / [email protected]
Sarah Maza, Jane Long Professor in the Humanities, Department of History, Northwestern
University. 847.491.3460 / [email protected]
Scott Spector, Associate Professor, Departments of German Languages and Literatures and
History, University of Michigan. 734.764-8018 / [email protected]
Tara Zahra, Associate Professor of East European History, Department of History,
University of Chicago. 773. 834.2599 / [email protected]
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