David Imhoof

Candidate statement

David Imhoof (Ph.D., University of Texas, 2000) is Professor of History at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. An active GSA member since 1994, he helped found and has co-directed the Music and Sound Studies Network since 2013. He served in 2014-2015 on the Program Committee and, since 2017, on the Arts Night Committee. Imhoof was also one of the Editors of H-German from 2002 to 2007. His textbook So, About Modern Europe: A Conversational History from the Enlightenment to the Present is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press in 2021. His monograph Becoming a Nazi Town: Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars appeared with University of Michigan Press in 2013. In 2016 he co-edited the collection The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, Explorations (Berghahn Books) and included an essay on musical film in Germany. Also in 2016 he co-edited a special issue of Colloquia Germanica on Sound Studies in modern Germany. More generally he has published on sports, film, and sharpshooting in interwar Germany and is currently working on a history of the recording industry in twentieth-century Germany. At Susquehanna University Imhoof teaches European, German, Holocaust, and cultural history. He helps direct Susquehanna’s study away program, which is a requirement for all students, and teaches courses preparing students for these cross-cultural experiences and allowing them to reflect on what they learned. For ten years, as well, he has directed a three-week program for students to Austria each summer. He was Chair of History for nine years and currently serves as Faculty Athletic Director.