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Paul Lerner
Associate Professor of History
Contact Information
E-mail:
plerner@usc.edu
Phone: (213)740-1653
Office: SOS 276
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Education
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B.A. History, University of Chicago, 6/1988
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Ph.D. History, Columbia University, 5/1996
Postdoctoral Training
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Post-doctoral Fellow, Georgetown University, BMW Center for German and European Studies, 2000-2001
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London, UK), 3/1/1996-8/1/1997
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Lerner is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century
Germany and Central Europe. He has written on the history of
psychiatry, specifically on hysteria and trauma in the years around World War I in Germany, and he is now working on the reception and representation of department stores and modern forms of marketing and consumption in Germany and Central Europe. This project pays particular attention to the notion of the "Jewish department store" and the ways that various movements deployed images of Jews to critique excessive consumption or mass consumer society. Lerner is also part of a long-term project on gender in German Jewish history and is co-editing a volume of essays entitled: "Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender and History."
Lerner's books can be found at:
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3972 and
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521583659
Publications
Book
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Lerner, P. F.
(2003).
Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1939 (Cornell University Press, 2003). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
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Lerner, P. F., Micale, M. S.
(2001).
Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930. Cambridge University Press.
Journal Article
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Lerner, P. F.
(2006).
Consuming Pathologies: Kleptomania, Magazinitis, and the Problem of Female Consumption in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. WerkstattGeschichte/Klartext Verlag.
Vol. 46-56
Honors and Awards
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Charles W. and Sally Rothfield Fellowship at Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
Fall
2008
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Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship Recipient, Research Fellowship, held at the University of Potsdam, 2005-2006
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USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2005
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USC, General Education Teaching Award, 2001-2002
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Post-doctoral Fellowship, Georgetown University , BMW Center for German and European Studies, 2000-2001
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USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, 1999-2000
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Post-doctoral Fellowship, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 1996-1997
Service to the Profession
Editorships and Editorial Boards
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Editorial Board Member, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry (Series), 2004-
Other Service to the Profession
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Member of Steering Committee on Gender in German-Jewish History. Plans conferences on topics in Jewish history and gender studies, 7/1/2005-
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Southern California German Studies Workshop. Founder and Director. An interdisciplinary group of scholars on German studies in the Southern California area. We meet regularly to read and discuss each other's works in progress., 9/1/1999-
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