Brian Gribben

Contact Information:

612 Oldfather Hall

Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (402) 472-2414
Fax: (402) 472-8839
E-mail:

Joined the Department:

August 2011

Brian Gribben is a Ph.D. student specializing in Modern Germany and Holocaust studies after a brief dalliance studying agrarian populist movements on the Great Plains. His research interests include the denazification and reconstruction in the western zones of occupation in postwar Germany. He received his B.A. in political science in 2000, his B.A. in history in 2008, and his M.A. in 2010 from Fort Hays State University.

Brian’s Master’s thesis, Weighted Scales: American Newspaper Coverage of the Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, examines the first Nuremberg trial’s depiction in the American press and identifies biases reflective of each publication’s ideological affiliation. The thesis received the 2010-2011 Award for Outstanding Thesis/Field Study from Fort Hays State University Graduate School.

Expertise:

• Holocaust
• Modern Germany
• Great Plains

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in progress.
Master of Arts, Fort Hays State University, 2010.
Bachelor of Arts, History, Fort Hays State University, 2008.
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Fort Hays State University, 2000.

Publications:

“Waving the Bloody Newsprint: Partisan Coverage of Populism in Ellis County, Kansas 1891-1896" in Heritage of the Great Plains, Summer 2011

Conferences:

2009 20th Century Warfare and American Memory Conference
Regis University
Panel Member/Presenter- “From Fervor to Footnote: Patriotism and Commemoration in Wilson, Kansas During and Following the First World War”

2009 Missouri Valley History Conference
University of Nebraska-Omaha
World War II Panel Member/Presenter-“Weighted Scales: Subjective Prosecution at Nuremberg”

2009 Kansas Association of Historians Conference
Fort Hays State University
War and Memory: Panel Member/Presenter-“From Fervor to Footnote: Patriotism and Commemoration in Wilson, Kansas During and Following the First World War”
History and Writing: Presenter- “Liberation or Conquest: US-Philippine War, 1899-1902”*
*Winner of the KAH 2008 Undergraduate Award, Category II