JOINED THE DEPARTMENT

2014

BIO

Alexander Vazansky came to the History Department at UNL as a lecturer in 2009. In the fall of 2014 he joined the department as an assistant professor. Before teaching at UNL he had worked as a lecturer and M.A. coordinator at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University.

Vazansky’s research interests include postwar German-American relations, GIs in Germany, and the 1960s in a transatlantic perspective. His book An Army in Crisis: Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1968-1975 will appear in fall 2019. For his next research project Vazansky will look at militarism and anti-militarism in West Germany during the 70s and 80s.

TEACHING

• HIST 100: Western Civilization to 1715
• HIST 131: Modern Europe (formerly HIST 101: Western Civilization Since 1715)
• HIST 250: The Historian’s Craft
• HIST 303/803: United States Military History, 1607-1917
• HIST 304/804: United States Military History Since 1917
• HIST 324: The Cold War
• HIST 327: 19th Century Germany
• HIST 328/828: History of Germany: 1914 to Present
• HIST 330: Contemporary Europe
• HIST 338/838: War and Peace in Europe: 1914 to the Present
• HIST 429/829: History of Fascism in Europe
• HIST 450: Capstone Seminar – Soldiers & Civilians in the 20th Century ; The 1960s Revolutions in Europe and the United States
• HIST 801A: Career Diversity in History & the Humanities
• HIST 801B: Leadership & Development in the Humanities & Social Sciences
• HIST 801C: Research Communication & Funding for Humanists
• HIST 900: Introduction to Historical Study
• HIST 901: Historical Theory & Debate
• HIST 933: Readings and Problems in Recent European History
• HIST 950: Graduate Seminar in Reading and Writing History

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• College of Arts and Sciences ENHANCE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 6, 2017
• Albin and Pauline Anderson Faculty Award, awarded by the Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 30, 2015
• Jolanta and Soheyl Ghaemian Travel Fund for Scholars, awarded by the Ghaemian Foundation, Heidelberg, December 27, 2007-January 7, 2008

ARTICLES

• Co-editor with Marco Abel, “What Was Politics in ‘1968’?” Special issue of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture (Routeledge, forthcoming).
• “Army in Anguish: The United States Army, Europe, in the Early 1970s.” GIs in Germany: The Social, Economic, Military, and Political History of the American Military Presence. Edited by Detlef Junker and Thomas Maulucci. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge University Press, August 2013).
• Co-author with Stefan L. Brandt, “American Cultural ImagiNation: The New Americanists and the Bush Revolution.” American Studies: Shifting Gears Edited by Birte Christ et al. (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010).
• “Civil Rights und Black Power in Rheinland-Pfalz.” Amerikaner in Rheinland-Pfalz: Alltagskulturelle Begegnungen. Edited by Werner Kremp (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• “Resistance inside the Army, GI Activism in Germany, 1968-1971,” invited presentation at the Institute for Social Movements of the Ruhr-University Bochum’s workshop on “The Continuation of Politics with Other Means: Protest in the Vietnam War Era,” April 9–10, 2018, in Bochum, Germany.
• “‘I'll Bleed for Myself:’ Black Power and Antiwar Activism among GIs in Germany, 1968-1971,” invited presentation at the Georgetown University workshop on "1968--The Global and the Local," March 23-24, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
• “Gewissensentscheidung oder Drückeberger: Public Debates around Conscientious Objection in 1970s West Germany,” presented at German Studies Association 41st Annual Conference, October 5-8, 2017, in Atlanta, GA.

EXPERTISE

• Postwar Germany and Europe
• Transatlantic Relations
• GIs in Germany
• Civilian Military Relations