Dr. Barry Jackisch
Assistant Professor Of History
Office location: PJP2 301F
Office number: 260-399-7700 x 8131
Email address: bjackisch@sf.edu
Course Offerings
- Western Civilization I and II
- World Civilization I and II
- Europe Since 1789
- Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Modern Germany
- Holocaust
- Comparative Genocide
- Modern Britain and Ireland
- Medieval History
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Imperialism
- Historiography and Research Methods
Education
State University of New York at Buffalo, History Department, Ph.D.- 2000
Dissertation: "’Not a Large, But a Strong Right’: The Pan- German League, Radical Nationalism, and Rightist Party Politics in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933"
Committee Faculty: William S. Allen (Chair), Norman Baker, Georg Iggers, John Naylor, Larry Jones (Canisius College)
Language Competencies:
German (reading, speaking, writing). Dutch, French (reading)
Free University-Berlin Berlin, Germany, Academic Year 1996-1997
Wittenberg University-Ohio B.A. w/ honors History and German, 1993
Humboldt University-Berlin Berlin, Germany, Fall Semester 1992: Institute for European Studies Program
Publications
I. Books and Articles
“Not a Large, But a Strong Right”: The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Weimar Germany, 1918-1939. Book manuscript in preparation
“Kuno von Westarp and the Locarno Crisis: Foreign Policy and Inter-Party Conflict in the German National People’s Party-1925” (English translation of original German title) in: eds. Larry Eugene Jones and Wolfram Pyta, ‘Ich bin der letzte Preuße: Der politische Lebensweg des konservativen Politikers Kuno Graf von Westarp (1864-1945), Böhlau Verlag, 2006.
II. Book Reviews/Review Essays
Review of Konstruierte Nation: Der Alldeutsche Verband, 1890 bis 1939 by Rainer Hering. German Studies Review. Forthcoming 2006
Review of Gustav Stresemann: Weimar’s Greatest Statesman by J.R.C. Wright. German Studies Review. Forthcoming February 2006
Review essay of ¬Die Deutsche Volkspartei 1918-1933 by Ludwig Richter and Die Christlich-Nationale Bauern- und Landvolkpartei 1928-1933 by Markus Müller. Journal of Modern History December 2004 (vol. 76): pp. 992-995.
Review of Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History, by Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, and Helmut Walser Smith (eds.). German Studies Review. February 2004 (vol. 27): pp. 51-52
Review of Emil Gumbel: Weimar German Pacifist and Professor, by Arthur Brenner. German Studies Review. October 2003 (vol. 26): pp. 658-659
III. Selected Conferences and Presentations
- Panel Organizer: “Local History in Modern Germany: A Panel Honoring William Sheridan Allen” 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 2006
- “Radical Nationalist Elites in Weimar Saxony: The Pan-German League in Dresden, 1918-1933” 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 2006
- Invited talk: “New Approaches to the Right in Interwar Germany” Center for West European Studies, University of Washington-Seattle, May 2006
- Panel Commentator: " ‘I Am the Last Prussian’: Kuno Graf von Westarp and German Politics, 1900-1933” 29th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2005
- “Continuity and Change on the German Right: The Pan-German League and Nazism, 1918-1939” 29th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2005
- “Genocide in Darfur” Roundtable Participant, Northwestern Pennsylvania Holocaust Remembrance Network Presentation, Allegheny College, PA, April 2005
- “Conservative Kulturpolitik in the Wake of War and Revolution: The DNVP and Cultural Politics, 1918-1924” 28th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2004
- “From Versailles to Locarno: Kuno von Westarp and Conservative Foreign Policy, 1918-1925” Kuno von Westarp Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, May 2004
- “The Racial Lessons of a Lost War: The Pan-German League, the German Right, and the Transformation of Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1923.” 118th Annual American Historical Association Conference, Washington, D.C., January 2004.
- “Right-Wing Putschism in Bavaria and the Reich: The Pan-German League, Adolf Hitler, and National Socialism in Weimar Germany, 1919-1924,” 52nd Annual New York State Association of European Historians Conference, Buffalo, NY, September 2002
- “Religion, Education, and the Limits of State Control: Protestant Politics and the School Reform Conflict in Prussia, 1914-1933,” 27th Annual Social Science History Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 2002
- “Against the 'Politics of Fulfillment:' The Pan-German League, the DNVP, and the Nationalist Struggle Against Locarno,” 26th Annual German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, October 2002
- “Putschism in Weimar’s ‘Golden Years’: The Pan-German League, Heinrich Class and Extremist Politics in Prussia and the Reich, 1926-1928,” 24th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX, October 2000
- “Conservatives, Radical Nationalists, and State Authority in Post-World War One Germany,” 25th Annual Social Science History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2000
- “Teaching the Holocaust: Methods and Challenges,” participant in the Canisius College Symposium co-chaired by Professors Larry E. Jones and Gerhard L.Weinberg, October 1999
- “Conservatism and Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic,” presented at the History Speaker’s Series, State University of New York at Buffalo, November 1998
- “Radical Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Conservatism in the Early Weimar Republic: The Pan-German League, The German National People’s Party, and the ‘Völkisch Secession’ of 1922,” 22nd Annual German Studies Association Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1998
- “Radical Nationalism in Saxony: The Pan-German Chapter in Dresden, 1918-1933” International Conference: “Memory, Democracy, and the Mediated Nation: Political Cultures and Regional Identities, 1848-1998”, University of Toronto, Canada, September 1998
Fellowships and Awards
- Federal Title III “Technology and Teaching Excellence” Grant: 2005
- Gannon University Faculty Research Grant: German Archives, Summer 2002, 2005
- Gannon Faculty of the Year Award: Nominated 2004-finished second in student voting
- Milton Plesur Dissertation Fellowship-SUNY Buffalo: Dissertation research, 1998-99
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)/Fulbright Year Research Fellowship, 1996-97
- State University of New York at Buffalo, Graduate Assistantship 1993-2000
Professional/Administrative Activities
I. Departmental and University Appointments-Gannon University:
- History/Social Sciences Department Chair, University of Saint Francis-2006-present
- History Program Director, Gannon University- 2002-2006
- Faculty Appointment-Gannon University Honors Program, 2003-present
- Faculty Advisor-Phi Alpha Theta (Alpha Zeta Rho chapter) undergraduate history honorary society, 2002-present
Committee Work-Faculty Senate, Technology and Teaching Roundtable, College Academic Affairs, University Academic Affairs, Middle States “Core Courses/Liberal Studies” program review, International Studies program, Honors College Committee, Liberal Studies sub-committee on diversity in the curriculum
II. Other Organizations:
- Executive Board Member – New York State Association of European Historians 2002-present
- University Representative – German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2001-present
- Gannon University Representative – Northwestern Pennsylvania Holocaust Remembrance Network 2002-present
III. Organizational Affiliations:
American Historical Association, German Studies Association, Social Science History Association, New York State Association of European Historians, Association of Contemporary Church Historians, Phi Alpha Theta
