Professor Emeritus

Research and Teaching Fields: Modern Europe, Germany, military history

Formal Education:

• B.A., Dartmouth College, 1966
• M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974

UAB Service, 1961-1987

• Chair, Department of History, 1995-1996, 2002-2007
• University Scholar in History, 1990-2009

Select Publications

• Mission on the Rhine: Reeducation and Denazification in American-Occupied Germany. University of Chicago Press, 1982.
• The Free University of Berlin: A Political History. Indiana University Press, 1988.
• E-Boat Alert: Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet. Naval Institute Press, 1996.
• In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans. University Press of Kansas, 2003.

Select Grants and Fellowships

• Ford Foundation Grant, 1969-1972.
• German Volkswagen Grant, 1982-1984.

Select Honors

• Free University of Berlin, Guest Professor and University Scholar, 1985-1988
• Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction at UAB, 1994
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Phi Alpha Theta
• The Civil War Santa, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 2009-2018

*Deceased