List of Contributors

Timothy S. Brown teaches history at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of Bolsheviks, Beefsteaks and Brownshirts: A Cultural History of the Radical Extremes in the Weimar Republic (forthcoming). He is currently at work on a book entitled 1968: West Germany in the World.

Madeleine Davis is Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. Relevant publications include “The Marxism of the British New Left” (in: Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol 11, No 3, October 2006), and “Labourism and the New Left” (in: Callaghan, Fielding and Ludlam, eds., Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour Politics and History, Manchester University Press, 2003). She is currently writing a book on the British New Left.

Michael J. Frey is a Ph.D. student at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His thesis focuses on the transnational relations of student movements in the early 1960s in the United States and Germany.

Stefan Garsztecki was born in Bergheim, Germany. He studied Political Science, History and Geography in Bonn (M.A.), Trier (PhD) and Poznań. He currently works at the Department for East and Central European Studies at the University of Bremen. His main research topics are political culture and the transformation processes in Poland and other countries in the region.

Philipp Gassert is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous books and articles on post-war German and European history as well as American and International history, including Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung 1933-1945; and 1968: The World Transformed (edited with Carole Fink and Detlef Junker).

Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey is Professor of History at the University of Bielefeld. She is the author and editor of several books and articles on 1968 in Germany, France and the U.S., including 1968 - Vom Ereignis zum Gegenstand der Geschichtswissenschaft (1998), "Die Phantasie an die Macht". Mai 68 in Frankreich (1995, 2001), and Die 68er Bewegung Deutschland, Westeuropa, USA (2003, 2005).

Agata Grzenia was born in Poland. She has studied German and Slavic philology at the Ruhr University of Bochum and at the University of Cracow since 2001. In 2004 she obtained a Bachelor of Arts. She also works as a translator and is involved in German and Polish cross-cultural work and dialogue of reconciliation.

Dorothea Hauser was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She is a historian and author based until recently in Paris, now in Berlin. Publications on terrorism in West Germany and Western Europe include Baader und Herold. Beschreibung eines Kampfes (1997, 1998, 2007) and “Deutschland, Italien, Japan: Die ehemaligen Achsenmächte und der Terrorismus der siebziger Jahre” (in: Die RAF und der linke Terrorismus, ed. Wolfgang Kraushaar, Hamburg, 2006).

Tom Hayden, who drafted the Port Huron Statement in 1962 when he was twenty-one years old, was among the founders of Students for a Democratic Society, a Freedom Rider in the segregated American South, a community organizer in the slums of New Jersey, an opponent to the Vietnam War who was indicted by Richard Nixon, and eventually a legislator in both the California State Senate and Assembly for eighteen years. He lives in Los Angeles and has recently taught at Pitzer College, Occidental College, and Harvard's Institute of Politics. Among his many publications are Reunion (1988, reissued as Rebel in 2002), The Port Huron Statement (2005), Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times (2006), Ending the War in Iraq (2007), and Writings for a Democratic Society (2008).

Thomas Hecken, PhD is Assistant Professor for German Philology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His publications include Theorien der Populärkultur (Bielefeld 2007), Avantgarde und Terrorismus (Bielefeld 2006), Gegenkultur und Avantgarde 1950-1960 (Tübingen 2006), and Populäre Kultur (Bochum 2006).

Thomas Ekman Jørgensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied history in Copenhagen, Berlin and Florence, where he finished his PhD on the Danish and Swedish Left in 2004. He has published extensively on the 1968, the New Left, the communist parties in Scandinavia, and youth movements during the First World War.

Boris Kanzleiter was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He is an historian and a publicist. He is currently working on a PhD about “1968 in Yugoslavia” and lives in Belgrade and Berlin.

Martin Klimke is a research fellow at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg and currently a postdoctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the co-editor of a handbook on the cultural and media history of the West German student movement of the 1960s and is coordinator of the international Marie Curie research network European Protest Movements Since 1945 supported by the European Commission. His most recent book is The 'Other' Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-1972 (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2008).

Konstantinos Kornetis was born in Salonica, Greece. He studied History and Political Science in Munich, War Studies in London, and Film Studies in New York. He earned his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, with a thesis on the Greek and Spanish student movements of the 1960s and 70s. He is currently teaching history at Brown University.

Jan Kurz was born in 1969 in Würzburg, Germany. He studied History and Jewish studies in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Bielefeld and Fiesole, where he wrote his PhD on the student movement in Italy, which was published in 2001 (SH-Verlag, Cologne). His research concentrates on the Italian Student Movement of 1968 as well as on youth movements during the Second World War. He lives and works as publisher in Hamburg.

Holger Nehring is a lecturer in Contemporary European History at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on the transnational history of protest movements in post-World War II Europe and is currently working on two monographs: The Politics of Security: The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957-1964 and The Last Battle of the Cold War: Peace Movements and German Politics during the 1980s.

Niall O'Dochartaigh is a college lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Cork UP 1997; Palgrave 2005).

Niek Pas has been an assistant professor at the Institute for Media Studies, University of Amsterdam since 2005. In 2003 he completed a PhD thesis on protest movements in the Netherlands in the 1960s, entitled Imaazje! De verbeelding van Provo (1965-1967) (Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 2003), which was an inquiry into the international dimension of Provo by focusing on its relationship with the mass media. Niek Pas studied Political History and French Literature at Utrecht University and at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris. Other major publications, forthcoming in 2008, include a handbook of French History and a monograph about the perception of the Algerian War in the Netherlands (1954-1962).

Jan Pauer was born in Prague and is a historian and research fellow at the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. From 1990-93, he was a member of the historians commission chartered by the Czechoslovakian government to analyze the events of 1967-1971 in Czechoslovakia. His research concentrates on political culture in both the Czech and Slovakian Republic, cultures of law, transformation processes after 1989, German-Czech relations, opposition movements in Eastern Europe and politics of memory. He is the author of Prag 1968 - Der Einmarsch des Warschauer Paktes. Hintergründe, Planung, Durchführung (Bremen 1995, Temmen, Praha 2004, Argo).

Şerban Liviu Pavelescu is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Political Studies of Defense and Military History of the Romanian Ministry of Defense. He is also a PhD candidate in political science at the Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Nicole Peter studied History in Zurich and Hamburg. She holds a master's degree in History from the University of Zurich. The main subjects of her researches are the Swiss left-wing movement and collective identities.

Corina L. Petrescu holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her first book entitled Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany is forthcoming with Peter Lang.

Christopher Rootes is a professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Joint Editor of the journal Environmental Politics, he edited The Green Challenge: The Development of Green Parties in Europe (with D. Richardson) (Routledge 1995), Environmental Movements: Local, National and Global (Cass 1999), Environmental Protest in Western Europe (Oxford 2003, 2007) and Acting Locally: Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns (Routledge 2008).

Joachim Scharloth is an Assistant Professor at the Department of German at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is the co-editor of a handbook on the cultural and media history of the West German student movement of the 1960s and co-edited a volume and a collection of primary sources on the Zurich summer of 1968. His most recent book is a study on the influence of the 1968 movement on the culture of daily life in West Germany (forthcoming 2008). Furthermore, he is scientist-in-charge of the international Marie Curie research network European Protest Movements Since 1945 supported by the European Commission.

Kristina Schulz is an historian. She did her PhD on women's movements in the 1960s and 1970s in France and Germany, and published several pieces on women's movements and the "sexual revolution". Working at the department of Sociology at the University of Geneva, she also completed post-doctoral research on the material and symbolic effects of German society's transformation since 1990, resulting in a publication inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s study “The Weight of the World”. She is currently a member of the department of Social and Economic History at the University of Lausanne and conducting research on “Switzerland as an intersection point of intellectual transfer (1939-45).”

Detlef Siegfried is an Associate Professor of Modern German History and Cultural History at the University of Copenhagen. His major publications include Dynamische Zeiten. Die 60er Jahre in den beiden deutschen Gesellschaften (co-editor, 2000), Between Marx and Coca-Cola. Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980 (co-editor, 2006), and Time Is on My Side. Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre (2006).

Máté Szabó was born in Budapest and is a professor of Political Science with the focus social movements and political protest at the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. He has been a fellow and visiting professor in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Mainz and Frankfurt/ Oder. His research and publications focus on civil society and political and cultural discourses in Hungary. He is also a member of the international research project The Alternative Eastern Europe: Dissent in Politics and Society and Alternative Culture in Comparative Perspective 1968-1989.

Jakob Tanner is a professor at the History Institute and the Research Institute for Social- and Economic History at Zurich University; a main focus of his research lays in the history of science and popular forms of knowledge. He is a Permanent Fellow of the Collegium Helveticum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/UZH) and a founding member of the Centre for the History of Knowledge (SFIT/UZH). His homepage can be found at www.fsw.unizh.ch

Marica Tolomelli was born in Bologna, Italy. She studied history in Bologna, Toulouse and Bielefeld, where she obtained her PhD on the Italian and West German student movement of 1968 ("Repressiv getrennt"- "organisch verbündet". Studenten und Arbeiter 1968 in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in Italien, Opladen 2001). She currently works at the History Department of the Bologna University. Her major research fields and publications concentrate on European social history since 1945 as well as comparative Italian and German history (Terrorismo e società, Bologna 2006).

Louis Vos is a Professor of Modern History at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His field of research includes the history of nationalism, student movements and youth movements. With Lieve Gevers he wrote the chapters on student movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for Walter Ruegg’s (ed.) A History of the University in Europe.