Faculty

Henning Grunwald
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Visiting Assistant Professor of European Studies

PhD, University of Cambridge, 2003

Modern European history, with emphasis on Germany, cultural and legal history

Telephone: 615-343-1749
Email: henning.grunwald@vanderbilt.edu
Office hours: T 9:00-10:00, W 11:00-noon, by appointment
Office: Buttrick Hall 246

Personal website: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/historydept/grunwald

Henning Grunwald is a historian of modern Germany, with a special emphasis on the Weimar Republic. His dissertation, which he is currently preparing for publication, explores the nexus of political justice and political performance in interwar Germany by studying a group of trial lawyers who specialized in the defense of National Socialists and Communists. His interest in language as both an indicator to and a catalyst of cultural and political change gave rise to his collaboration with the Shakespeare scholar Manfred Pfister (Freie Universitaet Berlin) with whom he has co-edited Krisis. Krisenszenarien, Diagnosen und Diskursstrategien (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2007). A further collaborative publication explores the methodological implications of performance studies for legal history and sociology (Performanz des Rechts: Inszenierung und Diskurs, Paragrana 15 [2006]). Together with three colleagues from Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin and the University of Oxford, he has initiated the research network (De-)Europeanization in History: Concepts, Conflicts, Cohesion 1890-1989, co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Other current research interests include political justice and political theatre as well as memory and representations of the Holocaust.

Henning Grunwald was awarded the Allen Prize for History (Clare College, Cambridge, 1997), a doctoral dissertation scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the William Senior Studentship in Legal History and Comparative Law. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the graduate school ‘Staging the Body’ (Freie Universitaet Berlin) and served as assistant (scientific strategy) of the president of Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin.

Prof. Grunwald currently teaches courses in 20th century European (Hist 225, Hist 226) and German (Hist 231) history as well as courses in European studies, including the Berlin Maymester (EUS 215W Europe on Trial and EUS 260 Berlin).

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