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Dr. Clara Oberle
Assistant Professor
PhD, Princeton University, 2006

Teaching and research specialties: Modern European, German, Urban, and International History. War and Occupations, History of Antifascism, History and Memory, Women and Law, Post-Catastrophe Cities, Migrations, Berlin, Vienna.

Office: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (KIPJ) 290
Hours, Fall 2008: Mon 2:00-4:00, Wed 2:00-4:00
Phone: (619) 260-7813
Email:  oberle@sandiego.edu

Selected Publications :

  • "Housing Culture in Postwar Berlin," in: The Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Publications, Princeton University, (forthcoming).
  • "Times of Transit-Spaces of Transit:  Berlin Railway Stations, 1945-1949,” in: Metropolitan Catastrophes in the Age of Total War Conference Papers, (forthcoming).
  • “Allied Housing Policies and the Emergence of German Memory Narratives, 1945-1948,” in: The Experience of Occupation, 1931-1949, International Committee for the History of the Second World War Conference Papers/ Institute for Border Studies, University of Wuhan, (forthcoming).
  • City in Transit: Ruins, Railways, and the Search for Order in Postwar Berlin (1945-1948), University of Michigan Dissertations Publishing, UMI Digital Dissertations, 2006.
  •  “Women, “ “Radio,” “Transportation,” “Religion” chapters in Anson Rabinbach and Sander Gilman, eds., The Nazi Culture Source Book, Berkeley, University of California Press (forthcoming).
  • Vivian E. Barnett, Kandinsky Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen, v. 1, Munich, Beck Verlag, 2006.
  • Harold James, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2001.