Department of History 102
Tenth Street
Eastern Illinois University Charleston,
IL 61920
600 Lincoln Avenue 217-348-6161
Charleston, IL 61920 cfsee@eiu.edu
217-581-8509
FAX: 217-581-7233
Education: University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Department of History
Ph.D., December 2002
Major Field: Modern
Europe
Minor Fields: Russia,
Comparative Labor and Working Class History
University of Memphis
Department of History
B.A., 1991 (summa cum
laude); M.A., 1993
Major Field: Europe
Chair, Peter Fritzsche
Experience Fall
2003-present
Assistant
Professor, History Department, Eastern Illinois University
HIS
5400 “Readings in Modern German History”
HIS
3555 “Modern World History”
HIS
3450:“Modern Germany”
HIS
1500: “Roots of the Modern World: Global Interactions”
2002-2003
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Indiana University South Bend
“The World in the Twentieth Century: The
Violent Twentieth Century”
“Europe since Napoleon”
“Europe in the Twentieth Century I: Before
1945”
“Europe in the Twentieth Century II: After
1945”
Fall 2001
William C. Widenor Teaching Fellow,
Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research seminar: "Crime and Punishment
in Modern Europe"
Summer 2001
Visiting Lecturer,
Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"History of Europe
since 1939"
Fall 1995-Spring 1997
Teaching Assistant,
Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Western
Civilization to 1688" and "Western Civilization since 1688,"
including writing intensive sections
Presentations “Citizens’ Arrest? Policing, Consumer Society, and the Ambiguities
of Republican
Citizenship
in Weimar Germany “ Social Science History Association Conference,
Chicago, IL, 18-21 November 2004
“Family Misfortunes: Men,
Women, and Violence in Weimar Germany,” German Studies Association Conference,
Washington, D.C., 8-12 October 2004
“Violence
and the Culture of Inflation in Weimar Germany,” session of the Conference
Group for Central
European History, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., 8-11 January 2004
“’Was heisst Langu?’
Denunciation and Criminal Policing in Weimar Berlin,” Faculty Colloquium Presentation,
19 November 2003
“Tragic
Love: Narratives of Emotion and Violence,” Mid-West
German History Workshop,
Champaign, Illinois, 17-19 October 2003
“‘For How Much - A
Murder?’ Violence and Value in Weimar Germany,” Mid-West German History
Workshop, Champaign, Illinois, 8-10 November 2002
"Death in the City: Murder and Modernity
in Weimar Germany," Finite Subjects:Mortality and Culture in Germany,
University of California, Berkeley, 4-5 April 2002.
“A City Seeks a Murderer: The Criminal
Investigation and the Production of Urban Knowledge in Berlin, 1919-1932,”
Producing Cities/Consuming Cities: Annual Conference of the Illinois Program
for Research in the Humanities, Urbana, Illinois, 31 March 2001
“The Carl Grossmann
Sexual Murder Case, 1921: Gender, Class, and Violent Crime in Weimar Berlin,”
German Studies Association Conference, Houston, Texas, 8 October 2000
“Criminals or Victims?: Female Witnesses in the Carl
Grossmann Sexual Murder Case, Berlin 1921,” Graduate Symposium on Gender and
Women’s History, Urbana, Illinois, 24 March 2000
“Solving Murders and Dissolving Communities
in Weimar Berlin,” Research Colloquium, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie,
Berlin, Germany, 6 August 1999
“Animosity, Antipathy,
and Sympathy in the Tenement House Culture of Berlin, 1919-1932,”North American
Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan
25 October 1997
Publications “Das
Gewissen von Moabit” [“Highlight” article about 1920s courtroom reporter Sling
(Paul Schlesinger)], MESSAGE
- internationale Fachzeitschrift für Journalismus (forthcoming in January
2004). Translated from English by Susanne Hold.
Manuscripts: “Murder, Denunciation, and Criminal Policing in
Weimar Berlin,” submitted to
Journal of
Contemporary History
Grants and Awards
Research Fellowship,
Department of History, University of Illinois, Spring 2002
William C. Widenor
Teaching Fellowship, University of Illinois, Fall 2001
Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2001
Fellowship, Department of
History, University of Illinois, 2000-2001
Dissertation Fellowship, Berlin Program for
Advanced German and European Studies of the Freie Universität and the Social
Science Research Council, 1998-99
DAAD (German Academic
Exchange Program) Dissertation Research Grant, 1998-99 (declined)
DAAD Summer Language
Course Stipend, Herder Institut, University of Leipzig, Germany, 1997
Pre-dissertation Research
Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Illinois, 1997
Teaching "List
of Excellent Instructors and Teaching Assistants" (based on student
evaluations),
University of Illinois,
Spring 1996
Computers in the
classroom teaching award, Department of
History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spring 1996
Seminars Attended“Violence and
Modernity in Twentieth-Century Germany,” Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute
of the Center for German and European
Studies, University of Minnesota, 14 July-3 August 2002
Service Honors
Coordinator, History Department, EIU, 2004-
Curriculum
Committee, History Department, EIU, 2003-present
Ancient/Medieval
Mediterranean Search Committee, 2004-2005
Awards
Committee, History Department, EIU, 2003-present
Guest
Speaker Committee, History Department, EIU, 2003-2004
Women’s
History and Awareness Month Committee, EIU, 2003-2004
Panel
Organizer, “Violence and Peace: Postwar Reconstructions in Twentieth-
Century Germany,” CGCEH
session of the American Historical Association
Meeting, 8-11 January 2004
Organizer and Co-Founder,
Violence History Reading Group, Department of History, UIUC, 2001-2003
Chair, Organizing
Committee, Third Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History,
2001-2002
German
Studies Association