University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - History - Benjamin M. Baader
Benjamin M. Baader

 

Associate Professor

Co-coordinator of Judaic Studies

Office: 347 University College
e-mail: baader@cc.umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-9150

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., Columbia University
B.A. equivalent, Technische Universität Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin

RESEARCH INTERESTS :

Jewish history; gender history, women's history, history of masculinities; religion; society, ethnicity and culture; nineteenth-century middle-class formation; German history

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History. co-editor with Sharon Gillerman  and Paul Lerner (Indiana University Press, June 2012).
Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, May 2006)
"Jews, Women, and Germans: Jewish and German Historiographies in a Transatlantic Perspective," Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography, ed. Karen Hagemann and Jean Quartaert, (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Publishers, 2007).
"Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Refashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750-1870," Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America, Thomas Adam, editor (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).

COURSES TAUGHT

2012-2013 (on leave Term 1)
HIST 1360 Introduction to Western Civilization from 1500

2011-2012
HIST 1360 Introduction to Western Civilization from 1500
HIST 4000 /7772 Topics in History: Jewish History
HIST 4400/7700 Historical Method and Historiography

2010-2011
HIST 1360 Introduction to Western Civilization from 1500
HIST 2250 Social History of the Jews from Antiquity to Present
HIST 4310 (T1) Women's and Gender History
HIST 7772  Women's and Gender History in Germany

2009-10
HIST 1200 Introduction to Western Civilization
HIST 3062 German Jews, 1618 to the Present
2008-09
HIST 1360 Introduction to Western Civilization from 1500
HIST 2250 Social History of the Jews from Antiquity to Present
HIST 4960/7270 Jewish History and Historiography
2007-08
HIST 1350 Introduction to Western Civilization to 1500
HIST 3060 German and German Jewish History
HIST 4400/7700 (T1) Historical Method and Historiography
2006-07
HIST 1200 Introduction to Western Civilization
HIST 2520 Germany since the Reformation