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erin r. hochman

Email:  ehochman@smu.edu 

 

Assistant Professor

  • Modern German and Europe
     

Educational Background

  • PhD, University of Toronto 2010
     

  • BA, Washington University in St. Louis

 

 

Selected Honors and Fellowships

Jack and Anita Hess Seminar for Faculty, “Teaching about the Holocaust through Eyewitness Testimony,” United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC, 2011

Ruben Cheng and Pui Yuk Chek Cheng Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 2008-2009

Joint Initiative for German and European Studies (JIGES) Research and Dissertation Completion Grants, University of Toronto and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2006 and 2009

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), one of 60 awarded to international graduate students in the province, 2007-2008

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 10-Month Doctoral Grant for Research in Germany, 2005-2006

German Historical Institute’s Summer Seminar in Germany, 2005

University of Toronto Fellowship, 2003-2008

Selected Presentations and Papers

“‘Heim ins Reich’: Großdeutsch Nationalism in the Weimar and First Austrian Republics,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, September 2011.

“Staging the Nation: The Großdeutsch Idea in the Weimar and First Austrian Republics,” The German Historical Institute’s Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: Twentieth-Century German History, Jena, Germany, May 2010.

“The Nationalization of Democracy in the Weimar and First Austrian Republics,” Fourth American-Canadian Conference in German and Modern European History, Buffalo, New York, April 2010.


“Rehearsals for Anschluss: Depictions of Großdeutschtum in the 1928 Schubert Commemorations,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2009.

“The Search for Symbols: The Flaggenstreit in the Weimar Republic and the Debate about the National Anthem in the First Austrian Republic,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2008.


“Staging a Volksfest for a Volksstaat: The Politics of Commemoration in the Weimar Republic,” “Turns” of the Century: Remapping the Turning Points of Germany’s Twentieth Century, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March 2008.

last updated 10/11