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Assistant Professor Phone: (239)590-7561 E-Mail: jmcox@fgcu.eduOffice: Modular 1 - Office 37
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:
EUH 2031 Modern Europe (1789-present)EUH 3142 Renaissance & Reformation EuropeEUH 3462 Modern Germany (1870-present)EUH 3465 Nazi Germany EUH 3475 The Spanish Civil WarEUH 3572 Modern Russia (1865-present)HIS 3064 Intro to Historical StudiesHIS 3142 The HolocaustWOH 3230 Genocide in World HistoryWOH 3290 Islam in World HistoryWOH 3790 1968: The Year the World ChangedHonors course: Music and Society in the 20th Century
Graduate Seminar: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in 20th-Century EuropeGraduate Seminar: The Spanish Civil WarGraduate Seminar: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Post-ColonialismGraduate Seminar: Comparative GenocideRecent 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, early 2011)
Book under contract: Rosa Luxemburg: Revolutionary Democrat (working title; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012)
Chapter under contract: "Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust," The Routledge History of the Holocaust, Jonathan C. Friedman, ed., (New York: Routledge, 2010)
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. (Key Publishing, 2009)
"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.
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, 2008), pp. 139-154.
Recent and upcoming 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. Upcoming: 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 Upcoming: 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
“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.
Upcoming: 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
Upcoming: 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.
“Resisting Both Hitler and Stalin: Anti-Stalinist Communists in the Third Reich.” Presented at the Triangle Area Graduate Student History Conference, Raleigh, NC, February 2005.
“Intersections of Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence Under the Third Reich.” Presented at the Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, February 2005.
“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 (GSA) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2004.
“The Herbert Baum Groups.” Presented at the Western Jewish Studies Association Conference, San Diego, March 2004.
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), pp. 904-906.
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. 609-611.
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.
Film review, “Bonhoeffer,” H-German Discussion Network, May 2004.
Service to the profession
Professor Cox's CV
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