YOUNG-SUN HONG
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Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989 |
Office: Social & Behavioral Science - Level 3, Room N-311 |
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Interests: Modern Germany, humanitarianism and human rights, race, gender
Bio:
Since the publication of my first book, Welfare, Modernity and the Weimar State (Princeton, 1998), I have become more interested in the ways in which narratives
of modern German history can be reframed by situating the country in a global and
transnational context. I am currently working on a monograph entitled Human Rights and Refugee Crises in the Era of Neoliberalism. This project grew out of the research that I undertook for Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime (Cambridge, 2015). In this book I located the entangled histories of the two German
states within a multipolar transnational field that revealed the hidden role of Third
World peoples in the domestic histories of East and West Germany. My goal for this
study was to make visible the agency of these local actors, while at the same time
opening out the histories of the two Germanys into those of Asia, Africa, and postwar
globality.
Recent Courses:
Undergraduate
- HIS 102 Modern European History, 18th c. to the Present
- HIS 241 Nazi Genocide & the Holocaust
- HIS 312 From Empire to Third Reich: Germany, 1890-1945
- HIS 393 Europe, 1940-1980
Graduate
- HIS 502 Introduction to Late Modern Europe
- HIS 517 Theme Seminar on Empire, Modernity & Globalization Topic: Doing Transnational
History in a Global Age