Assistant Professor of History
- B.A. (1994) Williams College
- M.A. (1997) University of California, Los Angeles
- Ph.D. (2003) University of California, Los Angeles
- Alexandra.Garbarini@williams.edu
- Stetson H20
- 413.597.2528
- Office Hours
- On leave fall 2007-fall 2008
- Courses
- HIST 136: Before the Deluge: Paris and Berlin in the Interwar Years
- HIST 228: Europe in the Twentieth Century
- HIST 230: Modern European Jewish History, 1789-1948
- HIST 239: Modern German History: From Unification to Reunification, 1871-1990
- HIST 338: The History of the Holocaust
- HIST 430: Toward a History of the Self in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe
- HIST 482(T): Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe
- Research
- Holocaust, Modern European Jewish History, Modern German History, European Cultural History
- Thesis Students
- Emily Bruce, '07, "These innocent tales": Family and Nation in the Grimms' Kinder- and Hausmärchen"
- Brian Van Wyck, '07, "Paranoia and Policy: Otto van Bismarck and Russo-German Relations, 1875-1881"
- Kimberly Gilbert, '06, "History's Shadow: Holocaust Remembrance in the Berlin Republic, 1990-2005"
- Mark Esposito, '05, "Rex vaincra! Léon Degrelle and the Failure of the Rexist Movement"
- Selected Publications
- Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2006). Runner-up: National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust category.
- "A Tale of Two Diarists: A Comparative Examination of Experiences in Eastern and Western Europe," in the occasional paper Ghettos 1939-1945: New Research and Perspectives on Definition, Daily Life, and Survival, published by the United Stales Holocaust Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2005).
- Reluctant Witnesses: Diary Writing and the Holocaust (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
- "A Tale of Two Diarists: A Comparative Examination of Experiences in Eastern and Western Europe," in the occasional paper Ghettos 1939-1945: New Research and Perspectives on Definition, Daily Life, and Survival, published by the United Stales Holocaust Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2005).
- Works in Progress
- Source Volume: co-edited with Avinoam Patt, Documenting Life and Destruction: Select Sources on the Holocaust, vol. 2, Jewish Reactions to Persecution, 1938-40 (under contract with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, to be published by USHMM and a yet- to-be-determined university press).
- Book: The Justice of Violence, a book project under construction. A study of two 1920s murder trials and what they reveal about European attitudes toward mass atrocity, the rights of minority groups, and the responsibility of Western powers during the pre-Holocaust years.