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MagnifyEdith Sheffer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Modern European History, The Europe Center Research Affiliate
Department of History
Stanford University
Research Interests
Modern Europe and Germany, social and cultural history of the twentieth century.
Edith Sheffer came to Stanford as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities in 2008 and joined the History Department faculty in 2010. She is completing a book that challenges the conventional history of the Iron Curtain -- suggesting how the physical barrier between East and West Germany was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was an outgrowth of anxious postwar society on both sides. Her future research will also examine the intersection of public events and private choices, from Germans’ “zero Hour” diaries in 1945 to the development and dissemination of corporate cultures. Research and teaching interests span modern Europe and Germany, especially the social and cultural history of the twentieth century.
Events & Presentations
The Limits of Sovereignty: How the United States Has Policed Its Border with Mexico Since 1993
February 16, 2012 Social Science Seminar
C.J. Álvarez, Edith Sheffer- Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
January 24, 2012 CISAC, FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Special Seminar
Edith Sheffer, Norman M. Naimark
Audio transcript available - Scripting Revolutions
November 3, 2011 - November 5, 2011 FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Conference
Pierre Serna, J.P. Daughton, Tim Harris, David Como, Jack Rakove, David Armitage, Caroline Winterer, Katherine McDonough, Keith Baker, Joseph Zizek, Dan Edelstein, David A. Bell, Kelly Summers, Carla Hesse, Guillaume Mazeau, Mary Ashburn Miller, Derek Vanderpool, Gareth Stedman Jones, Dominica Chang, Kent Wright, Nancy Kollmann, Lynn Patyk, Claudia Verhoeven, Amir Weiner, Jonathan Beecher, Tom Mullaney, Alex Cook, David Strand, Elizabeth McGuire, Andrew G. Walder, Edith Sheffer, Lillian Guerra, Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Abbas Milani, Silvana Toska
