Leo Spitzer
Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History
Former Chair, Jewish Studies Program
Former Chair, History Department
Former Co-chair, Women's Studies
Education
- BA: Brandeis University; MA and PhD.: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Past Jewish Studies or Associated Courses Taught
- "JWST 30": "A History of the Jewish Immigrant Life in the United States, Latin America and Africa" (together with Annelise Orleck).
- JWST 37: "Representing the Holocaust: History, Memory and Survival" (together with Marianne Hirsch).
- JWST 80: Emancipation and Exclusion: the Jewish and Black Experiences in Europe and the Americas"
Recent Scholarship (recent books or articles published)
- Leo Spitzer is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His most recent book is Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism (Hill & Wang: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998). He is also the author of Lives in Between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil and West Africa (Cambridge, 1990; reprinted 1999, Hill & Wang), The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism (Wisconsin 1974), and is co-editor with Mieke Bal and Jonathan Crewe of Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (UPNE, 1999).
- He was the Lucius Littauer Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1992-93) and has been the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim, Ford, Social Science Research Council, Whiting, N.E.H., and Rockefeller Foundation awards and fellowships. In 1996-98, he was a National Humanities Center Distinguished Lecturer. He is currently working in collaboration with Marianne Hirsch on a book, Czernowitz Crossroads: Four Jewish Families Before, During, and After the Holocaust.
E-mail: Leo.Spitzer@Dartmouth.EDU
