benjamin alpers
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ICL-QUESTIONNAIRE<br />
NAME: Benjamin L. Alpers GRANT PERIOD: September 16, 2007-<br />
July 15, 2008<br />
EMAIL ADDRESS: b<strong>alpers</strong>@ou.edu BORN: August 1, 1965<br />
PRESENT POSITION US: LANGUAGES: German (fair)<br />
Reach for Excellence Associate Professor Russian (fair)<br />
Honors College, University of Oklahoma<br />
GERMAN HOST INSTITUTION<br />
University of Leipzig<br />
(The website for the Institut für Amerikanistik at Leipzig is: http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/ )<br />
ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE<br />
United States History<br />
AREAS OF RESEARCH<br />
20 th -Century Intellectual and Cultural History, with special interests in Political Culture and Film History.<br />
Current research focuses on the history of Leo Strauss and Straussian political philosophy in U.S. academic<br />
and political life.<br />
POSSIBLE LECTURE TOPICS<br />
The Straussians, Post-War U.S. Conservatism, and the Republican Party<br />
Leo Strauss: Weimar Jewish Thinker in Cold War America<br />
Changing U.S. Conceptions of Dictatorship and Democracy<br />
Frank Borzage's German Trilogy: Melodrama and Antifascism in 1930s Hollywood<br />
Various Other Topics in the History of U.S. Political Culture and in Film History<br />
ACADEMIC TRAINING AND DEGREES<br />
PhD, History, Princeton University, 1994<br />
MA, History, Princeton University, 1990<br />
AB, Social Studies, Harvard University, 1986
PREVIOUS POSITIONS<br />
2004-2005, American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellow<br />
1997-1998, Visiting Assistant Professor, History, University of Missouri<br />
1994-1997, Lecturer, History and American Studies, Princeton University<br />
PUBLICATIONS (selected)<br />
Book: Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-<br />
1950s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003)<br />
Article: "This Is The Army: Imagining a Democratic Military in World War II," Journal of American History,<br />
Vol. 85, No. 1, June 1998, 129-63. [Reprinted in Gordon Martel (ed.), The World War Two Reader (London:<br />
Routledge, 2004).]<br />
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