Assistant Professor
Phone: (239)590-7561
E-Mail: jmcox@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - Office 37

Assistant Professor, Modern European History
jmcox@fgcu.edu

Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2005
M.A., History, Brandeis University, 1998
B.A., History, Appalachian State University, 1986

Research and teaching interests: Modern Germany, the Holocaust, anti-Nazi resistance, fascism and anti-fascism, comparative genocide, labor and working-class history, Islamic civilizations

Courses offered:

Graduate Seminar: Revolution and counter-revolution in 20th-century Europe
Graduate Seminar: The Spanish Civil War
Graduate Seminar: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Post-Colonialism

Recent and upcoming publications

Book under contract: Jewish Participation in the Leftist Resistance to the Nazi Regime (2009)

Article, "Raul Hilberg: In Memoriam," in the Journal of Jewish Identities 1:2 (July 2008), pp. 1-6.

Content Editor and Contributor for 2nd edition of A. Daniel Frankforter and William Spellman's The West: Culture and Ideas, Volume 2: 1400 to the Present (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008)

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, 2007, pp. 139-154.

Forthcoming: Essay, "Lost Worlds: Genocide and Diego Rivera's "Tenochtitlán'," for Evoking Genocide: Researchers and Activists Describe the Works of Art and Media That Shaped Their Lives, Adam Jones, ed., 2009

Forthcoming: Chapter on German socialism between the world wars, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present, Immanuel Ness, ed., Blackwell Publishing, March 2009

Recent major conference papers

"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.

"The Passing of an Illusion: 'The Sorrow and the Pity' and Post-War French Mythology." Presented at the War in Film, Television, and History Conference, Dallas, November 2004.

"Jewish Anti-Nazi Resistance and Its Relation to Jewish Identity During the Third Reich." Presented at the German Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2004.

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), pp. 605-608.

Review of James M. Glass, Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Moral Uses of Violence and Will, for the Journal of Jewish Identities 1:1 (January 2008), pp. 114-116.

Service to the profession

• Member, editorial board, Journal of Jewish Identities
• Director, FGCU Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies