Department of History

Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Rutgers, 1999) and Undergraduate Advisor .  Dr. Griech-Polelle researches and teaches modern German history, modern European women's history, and the history of anti-semitism and the Holocaust.  She has developed such courses as "Women and the Nazis," "The History of Anti-semitism and the Holocaust," and "Nazi Policy History."  She has published numerous articles and book chapters as well as a monograph, Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism (Yale, 2002), a co-edited volume (with Christina Guenther), Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), and an edited anthology, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today (Nomos Press, 2009).  She is actively involved in professional forums on Holocaust studies and is currently researching the role of the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany.  Most recently (September 2010), she presented a paper, "The German Catholic Episcopacy and Nazi Germany," at a conference on Catholicism and Facism at the Belgian Academy in Rome, Italy.