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Assistant Professor, Modern European Historyjmcox@fgcu.edu
Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2005M.A., History, Brandeis University, 1998B.A., History, Appalachian State University
Research and teaching interests: Modern Europe and Germany, the Holocaust, anti-Nazi resistance, comparative genocide, imperialism, labor and working-class history
Courses offered
Recent and upcoming publications
Book: Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)
Book under contract: To Kill a People: Genocide in the Modern World (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012)
Book chapter: "Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust," The Routledge History of the Holocaust, Jonathan C. Friedman, ed., (New York: Routledge, 2011)
"German Socialism and Nationalism Between the World Wars," International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present, Immanuel Ness, ed. (Blackwell Publishing, 2009), pp. 1373-1381.
Article, “Raul Hilberg: In Memoriam,” in the Journal of Jewish Identities 1:2 (July 2008), pp. 1-6.
Book chapter, “Herbert Baum: Jewish Resistance to the Nazi Dictatorship,” for The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, Cora Granata and Cheryl Koos, eds. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), pp. 139-154.
Recent conference presentations
“Remembering Anti-Nazi Jewish Resistance in the GDR: Communist Martyrs or Jewish Resisters?” Presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2010.
Speaker on book panel, “War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History,” Association for the Studies of Nationalities annual convention, Columbia University, New York, April 2010
Speaker on book panel, “David M. Crowe’s The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath: Its Contributions to Holocaust Education and Scholarship,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies annual conference, Gainesville, FL, March 2010
"Individual vs. Official Memory: Jewish Anti-Nazi Resisters in Post-War East Germany.” Presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2008.
“Politics and Culture in the Jewish Youth Movements of Weimar Germany.” Presented at the Legacy of the Holocaust: The World Before, The World After, Krakow, Poland, May 2007.
Recent book reviews
Review of Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur, H-German Discussion Network (October 2009)
Review of Walid Phares, The War of Ideas: Jihad Against Democracy, for The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 13:7 (December 2008)
Review of Robert Satloff, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach Into Arab Lands, for the Journal of Genocide Research 10:4 (December 2008)
Encyclopedia entries in the International Encyclopedia of World Protest and Revolution: 1500 to Present (2009), the Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture (2008), and the Encyclopedia of World Poverty (2006)
Service to the profession and university
Dr. Cox's CV
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