Warren Rosenblum

Associate Professor of History
History, Politics & International Relations Department
Webster University

St.
Louis, MO 63119
ph. (314) 968-7066
wrosenbl@webster.edu


Education

Recent Publications


Recent Lectures

your Life after college?

Resources in History

Writing Guidelines

My Department

 

Newspapers & Magazines

On Punishment

 

Course Websites are on Blackboard and must be accessed via Connections

 

 

Exhibits designed & researched with Webster students:

On War & Civil Liberties

The Old Courthouse, St. Louis, MO
(now on the second floor)

 


"From Citizens to Soldiers"
The Soldiers' Memorial & Museum, St. Louis, MO
2001 - 2005

 



Library Resources


Resources in European & World History


On Modern Germany

 

 


News Sources on  Politics & International Affairs

(Most of these newspapers & journals are available for purchase at Daily Planet News, 243 N. Euclid Ave in St. Louis. They may also be read at Webster University's Webster-Eden Library. In many cases, they are partially available online.)

Newspapers

Magazines


Radio Shows


Other Media



Writing Guidelines and Assistance:



Punishment, Policing , Human Rights
(A one-sided collection of links and source materials with critical perspectives on criminal justice institutions here and abroad.)

 

The Sentencing Project


Criminal Justice Policy Foundation


Jonathan Simon's Blog: "Governing Through Crime"


Prison Statistics Worldwide (U.S. vs. Europe vs. Asia vs. Africa)

Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights: Newsletter and updates

Amnesty International

B'Tselem: Human Rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories


 

 


Technology & Society


 


Life After College?
 



Other syllabi

 




Education:

Ph.D., University of Michigan
B.A. with Distinction in All Subjects,
Cornell University
Student,
Deep Springs College


 



Recent Publications:

Beyond the Prison Gates: Punishment & Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

·       Winner of the 2009 Baker-Burton Prize of the Southern Historical Association for the best first book in European history.

 

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“Beschädigte Menschenmaterial: Der Vorbestrafte im Deutschland,” in Silke Klewin, Herbert Reinke, und Gerhard Sälter, eds., Hinter Gittern: Zur Geschichte der Inhaftierung zwischen Bestrafung, Besserung und (politischem) Ausschluß.  (Sandstein, 2009)

 “Gerichtshilfe: Justice, Welfare, and the Crisis of the Weimar Republic,” in Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (Berghahn Books, forthcoming)

Review. Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany by Dennis Sweeney, Journal of Modern History (forthcoming)

Review. Verbrecher im Visier der Experten. Kriminalpolitik zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis im 19. und fruehen 20. Jahrhundert  eds. Desiree Schauz and Sabine Freitag, H-Net Reviews (April, 2009)

Review. ‘Die Chance, Bürger zu werden.’ Deutsche Politik unter amerikanischer Besatzung:Die Heidelberger Aktionsgruppe’ 1946-1947 by Katharina Hausmann, H-Net Reviews (Sept 2007)

 




Recent Lectures & Presentations

“The Magdeburg Justice Scandal and the Paradox of Jewish Power,” Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin, July 2009

“Justice Accused & Amended: Exhibits on Law and Civil Liberties in the U.S. and Germany,” Public History in Germany and the United States. Fields, Developments and Debates in Praxis and Theory, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut/GHI, Freie Universität Berlin

“The Criminal’s Honor and the Discourse of Criminal Policy 1900-1930,” Ehre und Recht, Tagung. Arbeitskreis Historische Kriminalitätsforschung, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, May 2009

Immigrant St. Louis: The German & Irish Experience 1820-1865,” Wednesday Club of St. Louis, December 2008

“Violence Unleashed: The Meaning of Kristallnacht,” Kristallnacht Rembrance Day, Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, St. Louis, November 2008

“The Paranoid Style in Weimar Justice: Magdeburg 1926,” German Studies Association, Minneapolis, October 2008

“Putin’s Russia: The Search for Order,” Great Decisions Series, St. Louis, March 2008

Vienna and the Holocaust, Docent Training Series,” Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, St. Louis, Fall 2007

“Immigrant Europe: Fear, Loathing, & Some Reasons for Hope,” Center for International Education Lecture Series, Webster University, Fall 2007