Steven Alan Carr Curriculum Vita
GENERAL INFORMATION
Present Rank and Affiliation
Professor and Graduate Program Director with Tenure, Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Contacts
Department of Communication NF 230
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
2101 Coliseum Blvd E Fort Wayne IN 46805
The University of Texas at Austin. Ph.D. in Radio, Television and Film. Dissertation: "The Hollywood Question: America and the Belief in Jewish Control over the Motion Picture Industry before 1941."
Northwestern University. M.A. in Radio, Television and Film.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A.B. with Honors in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures. Undergraduate Honors Thesis: "Hester Street: Ethnicity, Feminism, and the Independent Film."
Academic Appointments
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Director, Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Successfully proposed an IPFW Center for Excellence to promote the study of the Holocaust and Genocide in Northeast Indiana. The Center oversees a $30,000 annual budget and a three (3) year commitment for funding. Previously Co-Director from 2009 - 2014 and Director from 2014 - 2018.
Graduate Program Director for Communication Coordinate admissions, advising and completion of degree requirements for department graduate program consisting of approximately 20-25 students annually.
Indiana University (system)
Executive Committee, Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society Represented IPFW on multi-campus system committee charged with organizing statewide conferences and grant opportunities, both of which are supported through Indiana University's Office of the President, the IU Vice President for Research Office, and the IU Office of Executive Vice President and Chancellor.
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
Interim Chair, Communication Oversaw academic department consisting of fourteen full-time faculty, approximately 250 undergraduate majors, and 22 graduate students to cover for the regular chair's sabbatical.
Acting Chair, Communication Oversaw academic department consisting of fourteen full-time faculty, approximately 250 undergraduate majors, and 22 graduate students to cover for the regular chair's sabbatical.
Director, Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Successfully proposed an IPFW Center for Excellence to promote the study of the Holocaust and Genocide in Northeast Indiana. The Center oversees a $30,000 annual budget and a three (3) year commitment for funding. Previously Co-Director from 2009 - 2014.
Graduate Program Director for Communication Coordinate admissions, advising and completion of degree requirements for department graduate program consisting of approximately 20-25 students annually.
Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) Fellow Represented the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs in multiple technology initiatives,such as supervising the overhaul of numerous campus and school-level websites (including the OAA website), disbursement of grant moneys for technology innovation, and the development of a campus audio portal.
Associate Professor of Communication with Tenure Taught classes in Media and Public Communication Track, including film and media history and aesthetics.
Assistant Professor of Communication, Tenure Track Taught classes in Media and Public Communication Track, including media history, media aesthetics and new technology.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Held in residence in Washington DC; conducted archival research and gave numerous presentations for general as well as scholarly audiences.
Northwestern University Holocaust Education Foundation
Faculty, Seventh Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization Taught a four-class unit on Holocaust film to 25-30 Fellows, selected from competitive applications of current and prospective college faculty, who teach courses on the Holocaust.
Sam Houston State University
Lecturer, Division of Public Communication, Temporary Non-Tenure Track Taught classes in video production, scriptwriting and mass media.
Licenses, Registrations, and/or Certifications
Indiana University Graduate School Certification
Purdue University Graduate School Certification
Indiana Civil Rights Commission Never Again Ambassador Award on behalf of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
IPFW Senior Faculty Summer Grant recipient.
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives Loewenstein-Wiener Fellowship in residence for May 2011.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to supplement U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Induction into Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching to recognize teaching excellence at the statewide level.
Stephen H. Coltrin Award for Communication Excellence presented by the International Radio and Television Society Foundation for winning a team Case Study Competition on children and television, $2500 (shared among team members).
TEACHING
Credit Courses Taught at IPFW (with Student Evaluations)
Selected Publications and Productions Related to Teaching
Refereed items listed first by most recent item and marked with an asterisk (*).
Book
* Frost, Jennifer and Steven Alan Carr. Teaching History With Message Movies. Teaching History With. . . Langham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
Book Chapter
Carr, Steven Alan. "The Perfect Take: Multiculturalism in the Production Classroom," Shared Differences : Multicultural Media and Practical Pedagogy. Diane Carson and Lester D. Friedman, eds. Urbana : U of Illinois P, 1995: 246-58.
Unpublished Work and Presentations Related to Teaching
Seminar Co-Leader with Stuart Liebman. “Using Film and Media to Teach About the Holocaust.” The Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Washington DC. 5-9 Jan. 2015
“Clicked to Death: How the Technology-Educational Complex Is Destroying Higher Education, and What You Can Do About It. The 2012 Last Lecture. IPFW. 27 Apr. 2012.
“Beyond Triumph of the Will: Teaching Holocaust Media Literacy in the Age of YouTube.” U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Belfer First Step Midwest Regional Conference. IPFW. 15 Apr. 2011. Rev. of presentation for USHMM Belfer Next Step Indianapolis Regional Conference. Indianapolis IN. 29 June 2010.
Response to Deidre Butler, “Witness at the Blackboard: Reflections on the Phenomenon of Survivor Testimony in Canadian Schools” and Rosemary Horowitz, “Methodological Considerations for Using the Videotaped Testimony of Holocaust Survivors in the Classroom,” Teaching the Visual Image, Bearing Witness: Memory, Representation, and Pedagogy in the Post-Holocaust Age, Shenandoah U, Winchester VA, 13 Apr. 2010.
Invited Speaker, "Teaching the Holocaust Through Film," U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 3rd Dallas Area Teacher Forum on Holocaust Education, U of Texas - Dallas, Richardson TX, 25 Jan. 2007.
Panelist, "Reaching In/Reaching Out: Highlights of Communicating Common Ground 2003 Partnerships." National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach FL, 21 Nov. 2003.
Invited Keynote Lecture, "Hollywood and the Holocaust," Summer Holocaust Institute for Florida Teachers, U of Florida, Gainesville FL, 10 July 2003.
with Jeanne Barone. "Teaching the Holocaust." National Collegiate Honors Conference, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Oct. 2001.
Panelist. "Classroom Dynamics and Multiculturalism." Society for Cinema Studies Conference. Los Angeles CA, 25 May 1991.
Grants for Teaching Improvement
Special Needs Fund for Experimental and Documentary Film and Video Collection awarded by the IU - Purdue Fort Wayne Senate Library Subcommittee for $1,873.00 to purchase DVDs.
Community Fund Access Board Grant awarded by the City of Fort Wayne for $13,272.00 to purchase multimedia production equipment for use at Allen County Public Library Public Access and IPFW for service learning-oriented student projects.
Special Needs Fund for Holocaust Education and Media Literacy awarded by the IU - Purdue Fort Wayne Senate Library Subcommittee for $2000.00 to purchase Holocaust-related DVDs.
RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ENDEAVOR*
Publications and Productions Related to Research and Creative Endeavor
Refereed items in print listed first by category, in reverse chronological order, and marked with an asterisk (*), followed by items in press, under peer review, or in progress by category.
Book (in print)
* Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II. New York: Cambridge U P, 2001.
Book (in progress)
Atrocity Pictures: The American Film Industry and the Holocaust, 1933 - 1949.
Book chapter (in print)
* “’It Was to Be a Picture about Genocide': We Accuse (Film Rights, 1945) and America's Forgotten First Holocaust Documentary Film.” Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides. Victoria Khiterer and Erin Magee, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 219-226.
* “’To Encompass the Unseeable’: Foreign Film, Taste Culture, and the American Encounter with the Postwar Holocaust Film.” Lessons and Legacies. Vol. 12. Wendy Lower and Lauren Faulkner Rossi, eds. Evanston IL: Northwestern U P, 2017. 108-24.
* “Antisemitism in Hollywood: An Endangered Species List.” Antisemitism in North America: New World, Old Hate. Steven K. Baum et al., eds. Jewish Identities in a Changing World 26. Leiden NL: Brill, 2016. 401-13.
* "Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in American Film." Oxford Handbook of the History of American Immigration and Ethnicity. Ron Bayor, ed. New York NY: Oxford U P, 2014 (online).
* "Jew and Not-Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Postwar Hollywood Social Problem Film." The Modern Jewish Experiences in World Cinema. Lawrence Baron, ed. Waltham MA: Brandeis U P - U P of New England, 2011.
* "Staying for Time: The Holocaust and Atrocity Footage in American Public Memory." Violating Time: History, Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema. Christina Lee, ed. New York NY: Continuum, 2008.
* "How Some Things Never Change: Britney, the Joy of Pepsi, and the Familial Gaze." A Family Affair: Cinema Comes Home. Murray Pomerance, ed. London UK: Wallflower P, 2008.
* "Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Slum Films in the Aftermath of 9/11." The City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination. Murray Pomerance, ed. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers U P, 2007.
* "Mass Murder, Modernity, and the Alienated Gaze." Cinema and Modernity. Murray Pomerance, ed. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers U P, 2006. 57-73.
* "L.I.E., The Believer, and the Sexuality of Jewish Boys." Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance, eds. Contemporary Film and Television Series. Detroit MI: Wayne State U P, 2005. 316-32.
* "From 'Fucking Cops!' to 'Fucking Media!': Bonnie and Clyde (1967) for a Sixties America." Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. Lester D. Friedman, ed. Cambridge U P Film Handbooks Series. New York: Cambridge U P, 2000.
Article in a scholarly journal (in print)
* with Janet Badia. "Guest Editors' Introduction: Crossing the Boundaries of Reception." Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History 10 (2018): 4-7.
* "Night Will Fall (2015; HBO, 2015) and the Holocaust Simulacrum." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17.3 (2018): 377-85.
* "The Holocaust in the Text: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and the Allegorical Film Adaptation." Film Criticism 27.1 (2002): 50-65.
* "On the Edge of Tastelessness: The Smothers Brothers, CBS and the Struggle for Control." Cinema Journal 31.4 (1992): 3-24.
Paper published in conference proceedings
"Hollywood, the Holocaust, and World War II." American Judaism in Popular Culture. Studies in Jewish Civilization 17. Leonard J. Greenspoon and Ronald A. Simkins, eds. Proc. of the 17th Annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization-Harris Center for Judaic Studies, Creighton U, Omaha NE; U of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln NE, 24-25 Oct. 2004. Omaha NE: Creighton U P; Lincoln NE: U of Nebraska P, 2006. 39-58.
"From Street Scene to Dead End: Hollywood and the Urban Ethnic Im[m]igrant, 1931-1937." La Mémoire des villes / The Memory of Cities. Proc. of La Mémoire des Villes / The Memory of Cities, University of Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France, 2 May 2002. Yves Clavaron and Bernard Dieterle, eds. Saint-Etienne, France: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2003.
Published reviews of scholarly or creative work
Rev. of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1933 by Thomas Doherty. Jewish Film and New Media 3.2 (2015).
Review of Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. Edited by Richard A. Etlin. Chicago IL: Chicago University Press, 2002. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 33.4 (2004): 487-93.
Other
Liner Notes. "Leveraging Suffering and Persecution in Bent (MGM/UA, 1997)." DVD/BluRay. Film Movement, 2018.
"On the Dangers of Fake News and Fake Skepticism." Spectra: The Magazine of the National Communication Association 53.4 (2017): 18-23.
"2000 Presidential Election Coverage." The Encyclopedia of Television. 2nd ed. Horace Newcomb, ed. New York NY: Routledge, 2004.
"Luise Rainer." Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. New York: Routledge, 1997. Revised for republication in Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer, ed. Jerusalem, Israel: Shalvi, 2009.
Unpublished Work Related to Research and Creative Endeavor
Selected Lectures or Papers at Professional Meeting
"Writing on the Wall: Requiem for (a Radical) Media?" Issues in Contemporary Media Theory. Society for Cinema Studies Conference. Los Angeles, 24 May 1991.
"Coon or Cohen? Animation and the Transmutable Ethnic Stereotype." Icon and Stereotype. Society for Animation Studies Conference. Rochester, 3 Oct. 1991.
"Success or Conspiracy: The Durable Myth of the Hollywood Movie Mogul." Film Techniques and Texts. Textual Technologies. College Station, 29 Mar. 1992
Revision. Ethnic Portrayal in American Films and American History. Society for Cinema Studies Conference. Pittsburgh, 3 May 1992.
Revision and expansion. "The Hollywood Question." Finding Aids to History: Popular Culture as a Lens on the Past. International Communication Association. Montreal, May 1997.
Revision and expansion. "The Hollywood Question: American Film Historiography and the Jewish 'Problem.'" Cinema and Diverse Ethnicities. Society for Cinema Studies. Washington DC, 24 May 2001.
"Hollywood, the Holocaust and the Biblical Epic." Imagining the Unimaginable: Rethinking Holocaust Imagery. Society for Cinema Studies. New Orleans, 12 Feb. 1993.
"Hollywood, Isolationism and the Jews." Jewish Art, Drama and Film. Popular Culture Association-American Culture Association. New Orleans, 8 April 1993.
"The Hollywood Movie Mogul and the American Jewish Question." Competitive Paper, Historical Studies in Popular Communication. International Communication Association. Albuquerque, 27 May 1995.
"A Peculiar Jewish Monopoly: Life Magazine and the Accusation of Jewish Control over the American Theatre." New Voices in Theatre II: Dialectical, Rhetorical, and Social Perspectives. Speech Communication Association. San Antonio, 19 Nov. 1995.
"Virtual Paranoia in the '90s." Society for Cinema Studies. Dallas, March 1996.
"Contemporary Discourse on Bonnie and Clyde." Bonnie and Clyde: A Thirtieth Celebration. Society for Cinema Studies. Ottawa, May 1997.
With John Parrish-Sprowl. "Tobacco Denial and the Discursive Body." Evidence in Popular Culture. Border Subjects II: Bodies of Evidence. Normal IL, 3 Oct. 1997.
"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jew? Disney's "The Three Little Pigs" and Depression-Era America." Drawing from the Past: Animated Films' Regressive Visions. National Communication Association. Chicago, 22 Nov. 1997.
"Reading Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) as Holocaust Melodrama." 23rd Annual International Conference on Film and Literature. Tallahassee, 30 Jan. 1998.
"Have You Witnessed a Holocaust Lately? NBC, Ford and the Network Premiere of Schindler's List." Revisiting Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List ?? Five Years Later. International Communication Association. Renaissance Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 21 Jul 1998.
"Lewinsky's Mouth." International Association of Mass Communication Research. Strathclyde U, Glasgow. 28 Jul. 1998.
"'If You Don't Talk to Your Kids About Sex, We Will': Indiana and the Secularization of Abstinence-Only Education." International Association of Mass Communication Research. Leipzig, Jul. 1999.
"Reconstructing Wildman Woody: Reconfiguring Identity, Ethnicity and the Incest Taboo." New Critical Perspectives on Woody Allen. University Film and Video Association. Boston, 4 Aug. 1999.
The Holocaust in the Text: Film Adaptations of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in the 1990s." French Cinema at the Millennium. 25th Annual Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, 28 Jan. 2000.
"Holocausts of the Hyperreal: Life Is Beautiful in Postmodern America." Should Life Be So Beautiful? A Crisis in Representing the Holocaust. Society for Cinema Studies. Chicago, 9 Mar. 2000.
"There's No Place Like Oz: HBO and 'Quality Television.'" "We're Not in Kansas Anymore": HBO's Oz and the Changing Landscape for Dramatic Television Series. International Communication Association. Acapulco, 4 June 2000.
"Ethnicity, Humor, and the Jewish Movie Mogul in Hollywood." Ethnic and Racial Humor. Modern Language Association. New Orleans Sheraton, New Orleans LA, 29 Dec. 2001.
"Political Correctness and Literal Correctness." Understanding Globalization. Educating for the Global Community, Area Dean's Conference, IU - Purdue Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne IN, 22 Feb. 2002.
"From Street Scene to Dead End: Hollywood and the Urban Ethnic Immigrant, 1931 - 1937." La Mémoire des Villes / Memory of the Cities. University of Jean Monnet, St. Etienne, France, 2 May 2002.
Revision and expansion. Perspectives on Globalization. Society for Cinema Studies. Westin Tabor Center, Denver CO, 24 May 2002.
Get Real: Confronting Lord of the Rings as Allegory." The Fantastic. Literature/Film Association Annual Conference: Global and American Cinemas. Dickinson College, Carlisle PA, 19 Oct. 2002.
"American Holocaust: The Banality of 9/11 After the Enactment of the USA Patriot Act." Legal Communication in Action Since 9/11/01. National Communication Association. New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans LA, 22 Nov. 2002.
"Oops! We Did It Again: Performance, Family Values, and the Familial Gaze." A Family Affair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Hilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis MN, 6 Mar 2003.
"'A Clear and Present Danger of Substantive Evil to the Community': Film Censorship, Max Ophuls' La Ronde (1950), and Commercial Pictures Corporation v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York (1954)." Project, Production, and Distribution Histories. Max Ophuls Beyond Borders. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, 29 Mar. 2003.
"New Approaches to Studying Holocaust Film." National Communication Association Convention. Miami Beach FL, 20 Nov. 2003.
"Anti-Semitism, World War II, and the Hollywood Social Problem Film." The American Jewish Experience Through Film: Part I. The American Jewish Experience as Reflected in Film: A National Symposium. Queens College, The City University of New York, Flushing NY, 16 May 2004.
"Hollywood, the Holocaust, and World War II." 350 Years of American Judaism in Popular Culture. The 17th Annual Klutznick Harris Symposium. Creighton U, Omaha NE, 24 Oct. 2004.
"Eichmann TV." Encoded Trauma: Crisis, Popular Media, and Audience Meaning Making. Reception Studies Society 2009 Conference. Purdue U, W. Lafayette IN, 12 Sep. 2009.
Movies, Jews, and Profits to Lose: Hollywood and the European Market Before World War II - Paper delivered for Hollywood History / Jewish History: The Past and Future of a Popular Jewish Identity, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles CA, 20 Mar 2010.
"Can the Holocaust Be a Television Sitcom? 'Wowschwitz,' Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Show, and How Taste Still Matters." Position Paper for The Sitcoms Have Become Self Aware, Flow Conference 2010, Austin TX, 1 Oct. 2010.
"To Encompass the Unseeable": The Last Stage (Times Film, 1949) and Auschwitz in the Mind of Cold War America. Reimagining Jewish History in the Cold War. Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. U of Texas at Austin, Austin TX. 1 Oct. 2010.
Anti-Semitism and the Postwar Hollywood Social Problem Film. 2011 Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans LA, 13 Mar 2011 (pdf).
"Hollywood, Foreign Films, and the Birth of the Holocaust Film" - National Cinemas, Global Meanings. 9th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference, Chicago IL, 26 Mar 2011 (accepted; pdf).
"Eichmann TV and the Globalization of Holocaust Memory." The Eichmann Trial as Media Event. The Eichmann Trial in International Perspective: Impact, Developments, and Challenges. Berlin, Germany, 26 May 2011.
"Just a Sad Love Story": Three Comrades (MGM, 1938) and the 1930s Hollywood Anti-Nazi Film." The 11th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, Lyon, France, 6 July 2011.
"The Aggregate Dictator: Arab Uprisings, Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (UA, 1940), and Peop1e.org's 'United We Rise' Mash-Up Video." Global Voices in the 21st Century: Social Media and Change in Latin America and the Middle East. Global Fusion Conference, Philadelphia PA, 14-16 Oct 2011.
“Beasts of Burgeon: Animality in the Holocaust Menagerie.” Humans Gone Wild: Catastrophe, Inhumanity, Animality. American Comparative Literature Association Seminar. Brown U, Providence RI, 30 Mar. 2012.
“Complicated Dictator: The Untold Story of the Concentration Camp Scenes from Chaplin’s 1940 Hollywood Anti-Fascist Comedy That Audiences Never Saw.” Rev. of 2013 presentation for Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Playing With/Against Fascism. At Play in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. DePaul U, Chicago IL. 20 June 2013.
“Hollywood, Nazism, and the Motion Picture Division of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee, 1938-1946.” Rev. of 17 Dec. 2013 presentation for the Association of Jewish Studies. War and Film. 2014 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Sheraton Seattle, Seattle WA. 19 Mar 2014.
“’I Am Not Certain C.C. Is Not a Jew’: Reception, Perception, and the Identity Politics of Charlie Chaplin’s Jewishness During the Making of The Great Dictator (United Artists, 1940).” The Sixth Biennial Conference of the Reception Study Society. IPFW. 26 Sep. 2015.
"'It Was to be a Picture About Genocide': We Accuse (Film Rights, 1945) and America's Forgotten First Holocaust Documentary Film." 34th Millersville U Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide. Holocaust in Film I. Millersville U, Millersville PA. 7 Apr. 2016 (accepted).
"Remnants of The Search (MGM, 1948): Postwar Testimony in Production History and the Archive." Versions of the Archive. 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta GA. 30 Mar. 2016 (accepted).
"The Wonder of Wartime Edutainment: Hollywood and the American Response to Nazi Racial Science." Wonder and the Natural World. The Indiana U Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society, Indiana U, Bloomington IN. 20-23 June 2016 (submitted).
Other
"Hollywood, Nazism, and Globalization: Popular Culture and the Birth of the Holocaust Film, 1933-1945." The American Jewish Archives Loewenstein-Wiener Research Fellowship Seminar. Cincinnati OH, 16 May 2011.
Featured U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Speaker, "Hollywood and the Holocaust: Real Reactions from the Film Industry," Denver U, Denver CO, 19 June 2007.
Invited U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Lecture, "Mediated Evil: Re-Enacting the Holocaust for a Global Audience," Norfolk State U, Norfolk, VA, 4 Apr. 2007.
Invited Public Lecture and Featured Panelist, "The Holocaust in Hollywood Film, the American Press, and Traumatic Memory." Emory U, Atlanta GA, 27 Jan 2005.
Esther and George Kessler Lecture on Jewish Film and Media, "Hollywood, the Holocaust, and the Crisis over Propaganda," Michigan State U, East Lansing MI, 11 Nov. 2004.
Invited Public Lecture, "Hollywood, Anti-Semitism, and the Return of the Passion Film." Purdue U Jewish Studies Public Lecture. West Lafayette, IN, 12 Feb. 2004.
"Hollywood and the Holocaust." Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Otherness: The Construction of Race. Webster U, St. Louis MO, 5 Dec. 2003.
Invited Lecture, "The Holocaust and the Documentary Tradition," Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter MN, 27 Oct. 2003.
Invited Keynote Lecture, "Hollywood and Anti-Semitism." Eastern Michigan U Lecture Series. Ypsilanti MI, 23 Oct. 2003.
Invited Lecture. "Transparency of Evidence: Viewing Catastrophic Testimony." Interpreting Testimony Summer Research Workshop. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, 15 Aug. 2003.
"Postwar Representations of Anne Frank in Film and Television," Anne Frank in Film and Literature, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, 5 June 2003.
"Hollywood and the Holocaust from World War II to the End of the Studio System." Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellows Presentation. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, 7 May 2003.
Invited Keynote Lecture, "The Holocaust and the Alienated Gaze in Postwar American Film," The Psychology of Hatred: The 9th Annual Holocaust Commemoration, Weber State U, Ogden UT, 14 Apr. 2003.
Invited Lecture, "Hollywood and Anti-Semitism," U of North Texas, Denton TX, 9 Nov. 2001.
Panelist for Meet the New Right: "Compassionate Conservatism," Free Market, and State Policy, the inaugural panel of the 2001-02 American Studies Lecture Series at Indiana U - Bloomington, Bloomington IN, 29 Nov. 2001.
Instituted, organized and coordinated conference on the Holocaust at the U of Texas at Austin with John D. H. Downing, Austin, 29 April 1993.
"Free Speech." Issues on Campus. Carrying It On: A New Jewish Agenda National Conference Organizing Against Anti-Semitism and Racism. Philadelphia, 9 Nov. 1991.
SERVICE
Selected University Service
Purdue University System
IPFW Representative, Purdue University Graduate Council, 2008 - 2012
Member, Purdue Jewish Studies Committee, 2004 - 2007
IPFW
Representative, Faculty Senate, 2015 - present
Acting Representative, Faculty Senate, 2002, 2014
Purdue Representative, IPFW Graduate Subcommittee, 2008 - 2012.
Member, Instructional Technology Coordinating Committee, appointed by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs to improve the support of instructional technology on the IPFW campus, 2008 - 2014.
Selected Service to the Profession
Reviews of Grant Proposals
Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002.
Selected Community Service
Public and/or Governmental Service Activities
Member, Academic Advisory Committee for a major exhibition curated by Steven Luckert at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nazi propaganda, Washington DC, opening November 2008.
Member, Education and Outreach Advisory Committee for KCET/BBC co-production Auschwitz and the Nazi State, 2003 - 2006.
Expert witness for Florida class action litigation against tobacco companies in historic Broin and Engle trials, 1997 - 1999.
Publications and/or Presentations for Lay Audiences
Invited Guest Presentation, "Hollywood and the Holocaust." Wings of Memory Fundraising Event. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, 28 Apr. 2003.
Invited Guest Speaker for Rear Window (1954) at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U, Evanston IL, 7 Feb. 2003.
Invited guest speaker for The Sorrow and the Pity (1971; Milestone, 2001) for the film series Journeys and Investigations: Films on the Holocaust, held in conjunction with the exhibition The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern U, Evanston IL, 5 Oct. 2002.
"Myths and Realities about the Attacks." 4 Oct. 2001. Picked up by the Progressive Media Project and distributed via the Knight Ridder-Tribune Syndicate. Published in The Tallahassee Democrat, The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne IN) and other newspapers.
"Prosperity and Tuition Increases" 11 March 1994. Article distributed to Texas newspapers and broadcast stations statewide through the Texas Lone Star Forum.
Other
Commentator for National Public Radio Affiliate in Fort Wayne, Indiana, WBNI FM 89.1.
Board member for Cinema Center, a nonprofit venue for alternative and independent film in Fort Wayne
Weekly radio movie reviews for WOWO 1190 AM, Fort Wayne IN
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