Monica Black

Candidate statement

Monica Black (PhD, University of Virginia, 2006) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of Germany in the era of the world wars and in the decades just after WWII. In addition to a number of research articles, essays and a co-edited volume, she has published A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany (Metropolitan / Henry Holt, 2020), and Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany (Cambridge, 2010), which won the Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel and the Hans Rosenberg book prizes. She is currently researching two book projects: one on the intersections of history and psychology; the other a wide-ranging cultural history of modern Germany. Black has received research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Academy in Berlin, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council on Germany, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Council for Library and Information Resources, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, and the German Marshall Fund, among others. Black has been a member of the GSA since 2004 and has happily attended almost every meeting since then. She has served as chair of the DAAD/GSA article prize committee (2019 – 20), was a member of the DAAD/GSA book prize committee (2012 – 13), and served on the GSA’s Task Force for Graduate Students (2006). Black is editor-in-chief of Central European History (CEH).