Paul Steege

e-mail paul.steege@villanova.edu

Deptartment of History, Villanova University

800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085

tel. 610.519.6963; fax. 610.519.4450

Education

Awards and Fellowships

Publications

Conferences and Invited Presentations

Teaching

Academic Service

Research and Current Projects

Education
December 1999	University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
	Ph.D. in Modern European History
	Dissertation: “More than an Airlift: Constructing the Berlin Blockade as a Cold War Battle, 1946-1949”
	Qualifying Fields: 20^th century Europe; East-Central Europe, 1618-1914; The State and Authority
August 1994	University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
	A.M. in Modern European History
June 1992	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
	A.B. in German/Politics, magna cum laude
	Certificate: Russian Studies

Awards and Fellowships
2005	Villanova University, History Department Summer Research Grant
2003	Bernadotte E. Schmitt Schmitt Grant for research in European, African, and Asian history
2002	Summer research fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Gechichte, Göttingen, Germany
2001	Villanova University Faculty Research Fellowship
2001	Villanova University Research Support Grant
1999	Instructional Development Program Grant, Colorado State University
1998 - 1999	Mellon Foundation University of Chicago Dissertation-Year Fellowship
1996 - 1997	Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Grant for research in Germany
1996	Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant
1993 - 1996, 1998	Dean’s Scholar (Century Fellowship) at the University of Chicago
1992 - 1993	Fulbright Grant for study at the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
1991	Mary Cunningham Humphreys Junior Prize for outstanding independent work in the German Dept., Princeton University,
1990	Harry S. Truman Scholar (alternate), national award for study in politics and public affairs
1988	Princeton Scholar, awarded for excellence as an incoming freshman
1988	National Merit Scholar

Publications
	Book
	Between war and peace: how everyday life in Berlin made the Cold War, 1946-1949. Contract pending at Cambridge University Press.
	Articles and Chapters
	“Holding on in Berlin: March 1948 and SED efforts to control the Soviet Zone.” Central European History 38, no. 3 (in press).
	“Finding the there, there: local space, global ritual, and early Cold War Berlin.” In Earth Ways: Framing Geographical Meanings. Ed. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming.
	“Totale Blockade, totale Luftbrücke? Die mythische Erfahrung der ersten Berlinkrise, 1948-1949.” In Sterben für Berlin? Die Berliner-Krisen 1948 : 1958. Edited by Burghard Ciesla, Michael Lemke, and Thomas Lindenberger. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2000: 59-77.
	“50 Jahre Berliner Blockade: Die historische Wahrnehmung des Kalten Krieges,” Deutschland Archiv Heft 3 (May-June 1999): 392-7.
	Reviews
	“The Power of Unintended Consequences,” a review of Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany 1945-1955. Published by H-German@h-net.msu.edu (November, 2001).

Conferences and Invited Presentations
	Making it real: intellectual exchange, virtual space, and the public sphere,” roundtable participant, German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 9 October 2004.
	“Cold War Berlin: a city divided,” invited lecture, Philadelphia Conference for Modern European History, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA, 11 October 2003.
	“Making the Cold War: everyday symbolic practice in Berlin,” German Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, 19 September 2003.
	“Let them come to Berlin: Everyday Life and the Making of the Cold War,” Invited Lecture, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, 11 September 2003.
	“Finding blockaded Berlin: translating local crisis into global icon,” American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, 5 January 2003.
	“Ending the Blockade: local space and ritual Cold War in 1949 Berlin.” Robert H. Birmingham Colloquium, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 26 September 2002.
	“Crafting an icon: locating Berlin in the early Cold War.” Society for Philosophy and Geography, Towson University, Towson, MD, 26 April 2002.
	“An iconic battle: socialists and communists in Berlin, October 1946-April 1947,” Modern Germany Workshop, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 3 November 2001.
	Panelist, “Searching for Perspectives: A Faculty Panel Discussion on the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,” Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 14 September 2001.
	“Divided City, Divided Archives: Asking the Right Questions About the Berlin Blockade,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., June 15, 2001.
	“Cold War from the bottom up: material crisis and political conflict in Berlin, 1945-49,” German Studies Association, Houston, TX, 7 October 2000.
	“Constructing a Mythic Cold War Battle: The Ambiguous Experience of the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949,” Cold War Culture: Film, Fact, and Fiction, Indiana University, 18-21 February 1999.
	“Totale Blockade, totale Luftbrücke? Versorgungswege nach und aus den Berliner Westsektoren, Juni 1948 bis Mai 1949,” Berliner Krisen 1948 : 1958: Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur im Kalten Krieg, Berlin, 7-9 May 1998.
	“Die Konstruktion des ersten Schlachtfeldes im Kalten Krieg: Die Entwicklung der Berliner Blockade 1946-1949,” Arbeitskreis, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Studien, Potsdam, Germany, 15 May 1997.
	“Constructing the Cold War in Berlin: Soviet and SED Politics During the Blockade, 1948-49,” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies, May 1996.
	“Locations of Struggle: the State, the Street, and Contested Meanings in the Weimar Republic,” Seminar Paper Symposium, Department of History, University of Chicago, May 1994.

Teaching
2000 - present	Villanova University, Villanova, PA Assistant Professor, Post 1945 Europe: Courses include “Hitler and Nazi Germany,” “Post 1945 Europe,” “The History of Everyday Life,” “The experience of violence in 20^th century Europe,” and “The Cold War”
Summer 2000	University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO Instructor: Planned and taught the courses “20th Century European Diplomacy” and “World History since 1500”
1999 – 2000	Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Instructor: Planned and taught the courses “World Civilization 1500 to the present” and “Historical Methodology”: this course for history majors used documents, photographs, and film in addition to secondary literature in a detailed examination of Germany’s Weimar Republic as an historical case study.
1999 – 2000	Regis University, School for Professional Studies, Denver, CO Instructor: Taught the courses ‘Western Civilization, 1600 to the present” and “Europe since 1914”
Winter 1998	Aims Community College, Loveland, CO Instructor: Taught the course “History of Western Civilization I”

Academic Service
October 2004	Roundtable organizer: “Making it real: intellectual exchange, virtual space, and the public sphere,” German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 9 October 2004.
September 2003	Panel organizer: “Revisiting Alltagsgeschchte: praxis in everyday life and the discipline of history” [2 joint panels], German Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, 19 September 2003.
January 2003	Panel organizer, “Local Conflicts, Global Rivalry: Central Europeans in the Cold War,” American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, 5 January 2003.
February 2002 - present	Co-editor, H-German Online Discussion Group
January 2002	Panel chair, “The Crisis of European Democracy: Rethinking Interwar Europe from an “Eastern” Perspective,” American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA
2001-2002	Member, South Asian History Search Committee, Department of History, Villanova University
2001-present	Director, Department of History Lecture Series, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
November 2001	Organized exhibit, “October 1943: The Rescue of the Danish Jews from Annihilation,” Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
November 2001 - present	Co-organizer, Modern Germany Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
October 2000	Panel organizer, “A Politics of Surviving: The 20^th Century Experience of Scarcity and the Limits of State Power in the German Lands,” German Studies Association, Houston, TX
1995-1996	Co-organizer, Central European History Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995 - 1996	Conference Director, Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies, Chicago, IL

Research and Current Projects
Article manuscript	A collaborative essay on the nature of Alltagsgeschichte (with Andrew Bergerson, Maureen Healy, and Pamela Swett)
General research	Berlin; the Cold War; 20th Century Germany; Material scarcity; Political symbolism and political violence.

Languages
	German: Excellent reading, writing, and speaking abilities.
	Russian: Good reading and speaking abilities, moderate writing ability.

Professional Organizations
	American Historical Association
	Conference Group for Central European History
	German Studies Association
	Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations