University of Southern California

Faculty

Wolf Gruner

Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History

Contact Information
E-mail: gruner@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-1668
Office: SOS 262

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Education

  • Ph.D. History, Technical University Berlin, 3/1994
  • M.A. History, Humboldt University Berlin, 6/1989

Postdoctoral Training

  • John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies, 01/2003-08/2003  
  • Pearl Resnik Fellow, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 09/2002-01/2003  
  • Post doc Fellow, Yad Vashem,International Institute for Holocaust Research , Spring 1998   

Description of Research

Research Specialties
The History of the Holocaust and Genocides, comparative history of mass violence and its resistance, racial and state discrimination against indigenous populations, especially in Latin America

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

  • Center for the research on the Holocaust in Germany at Yad Vashem´s International Institute for Holocaust Research, Member of the international academic advisory board
  • USC interdisciplinary research cluster: Resisting the Path to Genocides, Team leader,http://college.usc.edu/2020-resistance

Publications

Book
  • Gruner, W. „Los Parias de la Patria". La republica de Bolivia y su discriminacion de la mayoria indigena 1825-1890(„Los Parias de la Patria". The Bolivian Republic and the discrimination against its indigenous majority). La Paz: Edition Plural.
  • Gruner, W. (2012). Mahnort. Rosenstraße 2-4: Vom Jüdischen Wohlfahrtsamt zum Internierungslager (Memorial. Rosenstrasse 2-4. From a Jewish Welfare office to an internment camp). Berlin: Topography of Terror Berlin.
  • Gruner, W. (2012). The Persecution of the Jews in Berlin 1933-1945 A Chronology of Measures by the Authorities in the German Capital. Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, Berlin.
  • Gruner, Wolf and Osterloh, Jörg (Ed.). (2010). Das „Großdeutsche Reich" und die Juden. Nationalsozialistische Verfolgungspolitik in den angegliederten Gebieten. Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, W. (2009). Judenverfolgung in Berlin 1933-1945. Eine Chronologie der Behördenmaßnahmen in der Reichshauptstadt (The Persecution of the Berlin Jews. A Chronology). Berlin: Topographie des Terrors.
  • Gruner, W. (2008). Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Racial Aims (1938-1944) Revised Paperback edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, Wolf (Ed.). (2008). Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945, part I, Vol 1: Das Deutsche Reich 1933 bis 1937 (Collection of primary Holocaust documents on Germany 1933-1937). Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, W. (2006). Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Racial Aims (1938-1944). New York: Cambridge University Press. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, W. (2005). Widerstand in der Rosenstraße. Die Fabrik-Aktion und die Verfolgung der „Mischehen" 1943 (Resistance in the Rosenstrasse. The Factory Raid and the Persecution of the „Mixed Marriages"). Frankfurt/Main: S. Fischer-Verlag. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, W. (2002). Öffentliche Wohlfahrt und Judenverfolgung. Wechselwirkungen lokaler und zentraler Politik im NS-Staat (1933-1942) (Public Welfare and the Persecution of Jews. Local vs. Centralized Policy-making in the Nazi State). Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, Wolf and Nolzen, Armin (Ed.). (2001). Bürokratien: Initiative und Effizienz (Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, Bd. 17 (: Bureaucracy: Initiative and Efficiency. Essays on the History of National Socialism, vol. 17 ). Berlin: Assoziation a.
  • Gruner, W. (2000). Zwangsarbeit und Verfolgung. Österreichische Juden im NS-Staat 1938-1945 (Forced Labor and the Persecution of Austrian Jews 1938-1945). Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich: Studien-Verlag. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, W. (1997). Der Geschlossene Arbeitseinsatz deutscher Juden. Zwangsarbeit als ein Element der Verfolgung 1938-1943 (The Compulsory Labor Project for German Jews. Forced Labor as an Element of Persecution 1938-1943). Berlin: Metropol-Verlag.
  • Gruner, W. (1996). Judenverfolgung in Berlin 1933-1945. Eine Chronologie der Behördenmaßnahmen in der Reichshauptstadt (The Persecution of the Berlin Jews. A Chronology). Berlin: Hentrich.
Book Chapter
  • Gruner, W. (2012). „Armenier-Greuel." Was wussten jüdische und nichtjüdische Deutsche im NS-Staat über den Völkermord von 1915/16?. Holocaust und Völkermorde. Die Reichweite des Verg pp. pp. 31-54. Frankfurt/Main-New York: Campus.
  • Gruner, W. (2012). Indifference, Participation, Protest? Responses to the Persecution of the Jews as Revealed in Berlin Police logs and Trial records 1933-45. The Germans and the Persecution of the Jews pp. 30. New York: Berghahn.
  • Gruner, W. (2012). Die Verfolgung der Juden und die Reaktionen der Berliner. Berlin 1933-1945 pp. pp. 311-323, 422-425. Munich: Siedler.
  • Gruner, W. (2011). Die Berliner und die NS-Judenverfolgung. Eine mikrohistorische Studie individueller Handlungen und sozialer Beziehungen (Berliners and the Persecution of the Jews. A Micro Study of Individual Behavior and Social Relationships), in: Berlin im Nationalsozialismus. Politik und Gesellschaft 1933-1945 (Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, Vol. 27), Göttingen 2011, pp. 57-87. pp. pp. 57-87.. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.
  • Gruner, W. (2011). Die Kommunen im Nationalsozialismus. Innenpolitische Akteure und ihre wirkungsmächtige Vernetzung, in: Wolfgang Seibel/Sven Reichardt (eds.), Der prekäre Staat. Herrschen und Verwalten im Nationalsozialismus, Campus Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2011, pp. 167-212. (Municipalities during National Socialism. Domestic actors and their powerful networks). Der Prekäre Staat. Herrschen und Verwalten pp. pp. 167-212. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. PubMed Web Address
  • Gruner, W. (2010). "Forced Labor in Nazi anti-Jewish Policy, 1938-1945", in: Jonathan Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust, London: Routledge 2010, pp. 168-180. The Routledge History of the Holocaust pp. pp. 168-180. London: Routledge.
  • Gruner, W. (2010). Greater Germany, in: Peter Hayes/John Roth (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, New York: Oxford University Press 2010, pp. 293-309. pp. 30. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Gruner, W. (2010). The History of the Holocaust: Multiple Actors, Diverse Motives and Contradictory Developments, in: Betts, Paul/Wiese, Christian: Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedländer and the Future of Holocaust Studies. pp. 31. London:: Continuum Press.
  • Gruner, W. (2010). Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren, in: Wolf Gruner/Jörg Osterloh (Hrsg.): Das Großdeutsche Reich und die Juden. Nationalsozialistische Verfolgungspolitik in den angegliederten Gebieten,. pp. 33. Frankfurt/Main:: Campus Verlag.
Journal Article
  • Gruner, W. (2012). "¿Peregrinaciones hacia al vacio?" Los judios alemanes y su conocimiento sobre el genocidio Armenio durante del Tercer Reich, in: Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio, vol. 6 (Buenos Aires 2011), pp. 56-78. Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio. Vol. vol. 6 (2011), pp. pp. 56-78.
  • Gruner, W. (2012). „Peregrinations into the Void?" German Jews and their Knowledge about the Armenian Genocide during the Third Reich, in: Central European History, 45 (2012), No. 1, pp. 1–26. Central European History. Vol. 45 (2012) (No. 1), pp. pp. 1–26.
  • Gruner, W. (2011). "The Germans Should Expel the Foreigner Hitler". Open Protest and Other Forms of Jewish Defiance in Nazi Germany, in: Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 39 (2011), No. 2, pp. 13-53. Yad Vashem. Vol. 39 (no 2), pp. 30 pp..
Other
  • Gruner, W. (2012). The Holocaust in Germany-An annotated bibliography. Oxford University Press.

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works

  • Member, Digital scholars program to Support Digital Humanities Publishing (USC Center for Transformative Scholarship), 2010-  

Honors and Awards

  • The book co-edited by Wolf Gruner und Jörg Osterloh: Das „Großdeutsche Reich" und die Juden. Nationalsozialistische Verfolgungspolitik in den „angegliederten" Gebieten (The Greater German Reich and the Jews), Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag 2010, 440 pages, was awarded one of the prizes for most outstanding German studies in humanities and social science in 2012 by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the VG WORT and the German Foreign Office, dedicated to fund a translation into English., 2012-2013   
  • USC Shoah Foundation Institute Senior Fellow 2011, Fall 2011   
  • Wolf Gruner’s book Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945, part I, Vol 1: Das Deutsche Reich 1933 bis 1937 (Collection of primary Holocaust documents on Germany 1933-1937), Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag 2008) was ranked under the top five for the 2008 Historical Book of the Year prize (History 1918-1945) by H-Soz-Kult (German branch of H-Net). The book earned rank 5 out of 44 nominations by the votes of an academic jury plus the H-net subscribers, Spring 2009   

Service to the Profession

Conferences Organized
  • Planner and Organizer, "Resisting the Path to Genocide: Groups and Networks", International Workshop of the 2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in collaboration with Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades., International Workshop of the 2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in collaboration with Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades., 11/01/2011-09/30/2012  
  • Planner and Organizer, "Researching the Holocaust". First Bilateral Workshop for PhD Candidates from the United States of America and Israel, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, co-hosted by USC and Yad Vashem, 11/01/2010-11/30/2011  
  • Planner and Organizer, "Resisting the Path to Genocide: The Case of States and Societies", Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades, International Workshop of the 2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in collaboration with Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades., 05/05/2010-05/30/2011  
Editorships and Editorial Boards
  • Member of the International Advisory Board, Journal of Genocide Research, 04/2010-  
  • Member of the Editorial board, Beitraege zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, 2000-  
  • Co-editor of the review section, Journal of Genocide Research, 01/2005-03/2010  
Other Service to the Profession
  • Organization of the interdisciplinary research cluster "Resisting the path to Genocide" (Series of seminars, workshops, and fellowships) , 03/2010-  
  • Organization of the interdisciplinary studies group "Origins of Race and Racism" (series of seminars and lectures), 01/2009-  
  • Organization of the speaker series "Holocaust, Genocide and Race Relations in World History" (2 guest speakers per semester), 01/2009-  


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