Curriculum Vitae - Florida Atlantic University

HIGHER EDUCATION
Douglas T. McGetchin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History
Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458
dmcgetch@fau.edu 561-799-8226
Ph.D. Modern European History, University of California, San Diego, June, 2002.
M.A. and C.Phil., University of California, San Diego, 1999.
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, History and Political Science, University of Rochester, 1988.
EXPERIENCE
Florida Atlantic University, Associate Professor, 2011 – present.
Assistant Professor, 2005 – 2011.
University of California, San Diego, Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, 2003-2005.
Instructor, 2002-2003.
California State University San Marcos, Instructor, 2003.
San Diego State University, Instructor, 2002.
HONORS, AWARDS, AND POST- DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Florida Atlantic University, Asian Studies Program, Title VI Grant, course release to develop new
course "Hitler and Gandhi" ($3500), Spring, 2011.
Florida Atlantic University, History Department, Research Stipend Award ($1000), “The San
Francisco ‘Hindu Conspiracy’ Case of 1917-18: Ghadar (Rebellion) Revolutionaries and the
Global Web of Indo-German Contacts,” December, 2010.
Florida Atlantic University, University Scholars Program, Course Support for "South Asian
Independence Movements," (HIS 1930) ($2000), Fall, 2010.
Florida Atlantic University, History Department, Research Stipend Award ($500), December
2009.
Florida Atlantic University, History Department, Research Stipend Award ($1000), for research
trip to Kolkata (Calcutta), India, December 2008.
Florida Atlantic University, Undergraduate Studies, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Summer Curriculum Development seminar ($1,200), May 7-9, 2008.
Florida Atlantic University Travel Award ($746), Office of the Vice President for Research, to
present paper at South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, October, 2006.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Publications
Scholarly Book:
McGetchin, Douglas T. Indology, Indomania, Orientalism: Ancient India’s Rebirth in Modern
Germany (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 1-291.
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Edited Volume:
McGetchin, Douglas T., Peter K. J. Park, and Damodar SarDesai, eds. Sanskrit and
“Orientalism”: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958. New
Delhi: Manohar, 2004. 1-386.
Journal Articles:
McGetchin, Douglas T., “Indo-German Connections, Critical and Hermeneutical, in the First
World War.” The Comparatist 34 (2010): 95-126.
McGetchin, Douglas T.,"Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Société Asiatique,
1822-1860," Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2004): 565-580.
Chapters in Books:
McGetchin, Douglas T., “The Whitney-Müller Conflict and Indo-German Connections” in
Mapping Channels Between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, ed.
Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, 29-50. Newcastle upon Tyne,
England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
McGetchin, Douglas T., "'Into the Centre of Sanskrit Study': Ancient Indian Studies and German
Culture in Berlin and Leipzig in the Nineteenth Century" in Douglas T. McGetchin, Peter K.
J. Park, and Damodar SarDesai, Sanskrit and “Orientalism”: Indology and Comparative
Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958 (New Delhi: Manohar, 2004).
McGetchin, Douglas T., "Wayward Disciples: Indology and Buddhism in fin-de-siècle Germany"
in Douglas T. McGetchin, Peter K. J. Park, and Damodar SarDesai, Sanskrit and
“Orientalism”: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958 (New Delhi:
Manohar, 2004).
Encyclopedia Articles:
McGetchin, Douglas T. "Nationalist Movements in India." In World History Encyclopedia, edited
by Alfred J. Andrea and Carolyn Neel. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
McGetchin, Douglas T. "Imperialism in South Asia." In World History Encyclopedia, edited by
Alfred J. Andrea and Carolyn Neel. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
McGetchin, Douglas T. "War Memorials in Nineteenth-Century Europe." In World History
Encyclopedia, edited by Alfred J. Andrea and Carolyn Neel. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-
CLIO, 2011.
Non-Refereed Publications
McGetchin, Douglas T. "The Oriental Renaissance: The Cultural Influence of India in Germany,"
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (July 2009): 332-342. Revision of
invited lecture, “Indian Impact Abroad—Arts, Literature, Culture,” Ramakrishnananda Hall,
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India, December 26, 2008.
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Other Works Submitted for Publication
McGetchin, Douglas T. “‘Orient’ And ‘Occident’, ‘East’ And ‘West’ in the Discourse of German
Orientalists, c. 1790-c. 1930.” In German Images of ‘the West’: The History of a Modern
Concept, edited by Riccardo Bavaj and Martina Steber. New York: Berghahn Books,
forthcoming. [Requested June 25, 2010. Submitted July 1, 2011; first revision submitted
November 15, 2011; second revision submitted December 20, 2011; proofs Feb 9 and 14,
2012. 5000 words, including notes.]
McGetchin, Douglas T. “Vivekananda: Indology, Orientalism and Vivekananda in the West.” In
Swami Vivekananda: New Perspectives. Kolkata, India: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of
Culture, forthcoming. [Swami Sarvabhutananda requested September 1, 2011; submitted
January 31, 2012. 4500 words, including notes.]
McGetchin, Douglas T. “Kālī the Mother, the Destroyer, the Transgressor: Śakti (Goddess Power)
and the Feminine Roots of Indian Nationalism,” International Journal of Hindu Studies
[manuscript submitted March 2012]
McGetchin, Douglas T. “Vivekananda.” Oxford University Press Bibliography Online.
www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com. [Requested October 19, 2011 by OUP editor Lisa
Hacken. Short introductory essays; 100 annotated entries; 6000 words total. Submitted
manuscript for review February 1, 2012.]
Papers Presented
"The Bengal Famine of 1943-44, Winston Churchill, and World-Systems Theory," Southeast
World History Association, Georgia State University, Atlanta, October 18-20, 2012.
“Indian Revolutionaries Exiled in Germany during the First World War,” German Studies
Association, Milwaukee, October 6, 2012.
“Provincializing Europe at the Height of Eurocentrism: Philosophy and Religion as vehicles for
Indigenous Nationalism during the British Raj.” 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and
Science (SSIPS). October 23, 2010, Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, New York
City.
“Asian Anti-Imperialism and Leftist Antagonism in Weimar Germany.” German Studies
Association Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, September 24, 2011. Co-formed panel 122:
“Post-Colonial Fantasies? German Orientalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Nazi Perceptions of
Asia, 1919-1939.”
“‘Despotic Inroads’: Engaging the Future through Anti-Imperialism in the SPD’s Debate over
Revolutionary Violence vs. Revisionism during the Kaiserreich, 1890-1914,” Workshop
Panel III: Chronologies and Time: New Perspectives. Fourth Annual Southeast German
Studies Workshop (SEGSW), Georgia State University, Atlanta, February 24-25, 2011.
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"The San Francisco ‘Hindu Conspiracy’ Case of 1917-18: Ghadar (Rebellion) Revolutionaries
and the Global Web of Indo-German Contacts." German Studies Association Conference,
Oakland, California, October 9, 2010. Recruited and organized the panel, "Central European
Orientalisms through the First World War."
"Global Cultural Connections in the Indian Swadeshi Movement, 1903-1908." Florida Atlantic
University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Body, Mind and
Culture, 2010 Coffee Colloquium Series, April 15, 2010. [Invited Lecture]
“International Debates over Violence and the Indian Swadeshi Movement,” Association for Asian
Studies, Philadelphia, March 25-28, 2010.
“German Identity and Indo-German Contacts” Position Paper, Workshop Panel II: Immigration
and Borderlands: Shifting Definitions of Germanness, Third Annual Southeast German
Studies Consortium (SEGSC) Workshop, Department of History, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, Georgia, March 11-12, 2010.
“Global Connections in the Indian Swadeshi Movement, 1903-1908,” Southeast World History
Association, Roanoke College, October 30, 2009.
“A History of Nineteenth-century German Indology,” Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities,
and Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of History, University of Calcutta, India,
December 19, 2008.
“Orientalism and the History of Modern German Indology,” Department of History, Jadavpur
University, Kolkata, India, December 18, 2008.
“Indo-German Connections and the First World War,” German Studies Association conference,
St. Paul, October 3, 2008. Published as “Indo-German Connections, Critical and
Hermeneutical, in the First World War.” The Comparatist 34 (2010): 95-126.
“Anti-Nazi Indology: Reexamining Nazism and German Indology” German Studies Association
Conference, San Diego, California, October 6, 2007.
“Agents of Other Empires: The Legacy of F. Max Müller and German Indology to British
Colonialism,” World History Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 1, 2007.
“Gandhian Non-violence and the Peace Movement in Europe, 1919-1939,” Exchanges of Ideas
and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries,”
Conference at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, Germany, October 28, 2006.
“Gandhian Non-violence and the German Peace Movement, 1919-1933,” German Studies
Association, Pittsburgh, October 1, 2006.
“The Whitney-Müller Conflict and Indo-German Connections,” Mapping Channels Between
Ganges and Rhine: German - Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, University of Toronto, Canada,
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May 25, 2006. Published as Douglas T. McGetchin, “The Whitney-Müller Conflict and Indo-
German Connections,” in Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds.,
Mapping Channels Between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
"German Popular Interest in Buddhism, 1890-1914," Association for the Study of Esotericism,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, June 5, 2004.
"The German Study of Sanskrit in the Nineteenth Century," German Studies Association, New
Orleans, Louisiana, September 20, 2003.
"An Indo-Germanic Connection," University of California Multi-Campus Research Group in
World History Conference "Research, Teaching, Agendas," University of California,
Riverside, May 18, 2002.
"Wayward Disciples: Indology Professors, their Students, and the Spread of Buddhism in Fin-desiècle
Germany," International Conference of Asian Scholars II, Freie Universität, Berlin,
August 11, 2001.
"Max Müller Embattled: William Dwight Whitney’s Critique," Congress of Philosophy and
Foundations of Science-V, International Symposium: “After Max Müller: Philosophy in the
Dialogue of Civilizations,” India International Centre, New Delhi, December 12, 2000.
“‘Zum Mittelpunkte des Sanskrit-Studiums’(Into the center of Sanskrit Study): The Development
of Indian Studies in Berlin and Leipzig, 1821-1914,” German Historical Institute's Sixth
Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Humboldt University, April 26, 2000.
“‘Zum Mittelpunkte des Sanskrit-Studiums’(Into the center of Sanskrit Study): The Development
of Indian Studies in Berlin and Leipzig, 1821-1914,” The History of Indology and
Comparative Philology in Germany, 1750-1958 Conference, University of California, Los
Angeles, April 15, 2000.
"The Sunrise of German Orientalism: Sakuntala and Germany 1790-1830," German Studies
Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 10, 1998.
Book Reviews
McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and
Practices, 1000-1989 by Nina Berman. German Studies Quarterly 85, no. 2 (Spring 2012):
214-215.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories,
edited by Jane Caplan and Nikolaus Wachsmann. German Studies Review 34, no. 2 (May
2011): 464-465.
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McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of L'archive Des Origines: Sanskrit, Philologie, Anthropologie
Dans L'allemagne Du Xixe Siècle, by Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn. Francia: Studies in
Western European History 36 (2009),
http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/francia/francia-recensio/2009-
3/ZG/rabault-feuerhahn_mcgetchin (accessed August 7, 2010).
McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of In Babel's Shadow: Language, Philology, and the Nation in
Nineteenth-Century Germany, by Tuska Benes. German Studies Review 32, no. 3 (2009):
696-697.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque: Sparks of Life, Brian
Murdoch. German Studies Review 31 no. 2 (May 2008): 434-435.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of The First World War as a Clash of Cultures, edited by Fred
Bridgham. German Studies Review 31 no. 2 (May 2008): 380-381.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of Traveling between Worlds: German-American Encounters
Edited by Thomas Adam and Ruth Gross. German Studies Review 30 no. 2 (May 2007): 420-
421.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Review of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections,
edited by Colin G. Calloway, Gerd Gemünden, and Susanne Zantop. German Studies
Quarterly 76, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 250-251.
Seminar or Conference Panels
Discussant for Roland Lardinois’ paper “Understanding India from the Periphery: Indological
Scholarship in France (18th - 20th centuries),” The Exchange of Ideas and Culture between
South Asia and Central Europe, Harvard University, October 29, 2005.
PUBLICATIONS IN TEACHING
[Available to instructors through publisher]
McGetchin, Douglas T. Exercises to Accompany Houghton Mifflin/Rand McNally Historical
Atlas of the World (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997). Forty-three five-question map quizzes
for custom on-line publishing. Completed August, 2008.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Exercises to Accompany Houghton Mifflin/Rand McNally Atlas of
Western Civilization (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Forty-four five-question map quizzes
for custom on-line publishing. Completed April, 2008.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Instructor Resource Manual for Craig Lockard, Societies, Networks, and
Transitions: A Global History, vol. 1, Origins to 1500 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
McGetchin, Douglas T. Instructor Resource Manual for Frank L. Kidner, et al. Western
Civilization (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
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WORKS IN PROGRESS
Book: “The Boycott or the Bullet: Debates over Nonviolence in Indo-Western Anti-Imperialist
Struggles, 1893-1964.” [A comparative study of resistance strategies and their
interconnections in Germany, South Asia, and the United States. Research is underway as are
related articles that will also serve as the basis for book chapters.]
Edited Book: Cho, Joanne Miyang, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas McGetchin, eds. Kindred Spirits:
Encounters between Germany and India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Forthcoming. [proposal under review by Routledge.]
Chapter: McGetchin, Douglas T. “Asian Anti-Imperialism and Leftist Antagonism in Weimar
Germany.” In Encounters between Germany and India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. Edited by Joanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Douglas McGetchin.
Forthcoming. [adaption of 2011 German Studies Association paper].
Chapter: "Provincializing Europe at the Height of Eurocentrism: Philosophy and Religion as
vehicles for Indigenous Nationalism during the British Raj" in volume edited by Vishwa
Adluri and Joydeep Bagchi.
Article: “Gandhian Non-violence and the German Peace Movement, 1919-1933.” Completed,
seeking publisher.
TEACHING
Teaching Awards Received:
Florida Atlantic University, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for 2009-10
($2000), April 14, 2010.
Florida Atlantic University, Exceptional Faculty Award of the Northern Campus Achievement
Awards, 2010-2011, April 25, 2011.
Teaching Specialization (courses taught):
ASH 4550 History of Modern India
ASH 4560 Indian Civilization
ASH 4930 Special Topics in Asian History: Asia and the West
EUH 3343 Twentieth Century Europe to WW2
EUH 3462 History of Modern Germany
EUH 4205 Age of Nationalism and Reform
EUH 4465 Hitler and Nazi Germany
EUH 4530 British Empire
EUH 4930 History of Modern Germany (Honors College)
HIS 1930 Independence Movements in S. Asia (USP Honors)
HIS 3150 Intro to Historical Study (World History, Weimar Germany, Nonviolent Struggle)
HIS 4930 History of Modern India (Honors)
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HIS 4935 Senior Seminar (Homecoming post-WWI, Indian Independence)
JST 4701 The Holocaust
WOH 4244 World War II
WOH 2012 History of Civilization I
WOH 5935 Graduate Readings in World History (Empires)
EUH 6939 Europe in a Global Context: Orientalism and Imperialism
New Courses Added to the Curriculum
ASH 4630 Asia and the West
ASH 4930 Hitler and Gandhi
University of California, San Diego
MMW4 Making of the Modern World 4 [World History], New Ideas and Cultural Contact
MMW5 Making of the Modern World 5 [World History], Revolution, Industry, and Empire,
1750-1914
HITO 133 War and Society: The Second World War
HIEU 146 Fascism and Communism, 1917-1945
HIEU 137 War and Society: First and Second World Wars, Co-instructor
California State University San Marcos
History 362 Asia and the West
San Diego State University
HIST 440 The Holocaust
Thesis Advising
Committee member, Katie Wernecke, M.A. candidate, History, defending fall, 2012.
Committee member, Leslie Williams, Honors College Undergraduate Thesis, [German
Colonialism in Namibia], Spring 2011 – present.
Committee member, Savena Budhu, Ph.D. in Comparative Studies: Literatures, Literacies,
Linguistics, “The South Asian Diaspora in the Caribbean: Migration, Nationalism, and
Exodus in Contemporary Indo-Guyanese Literature,” 2007 – 2010. Graduated December,
2010.
Committee member, Mike Ortiz, M.A. candidate, History, “Neville Chamberlain, Oswald Mosley,
and the Historiography of Appeasement Revisited,” Spring 2009 – Fall 2010. Graduated
December, 2010.
SERVICE
University
Peace Studies Program, Director, Summer 2012 – present.
Executive Committee, October, 2010 – Spring 2012.
Senator, FAU University Faculty Senate, Fall 2012 – present.
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Member, University Honors Council, October, 2008 – present.
Member, Faculty Learning Communities ($1000 stipend/year):
“Teaching High-Ability Students,” led by Christopher Strain, 2011-2012.
“Using Teaching Technology in the Hybrid Course,” led by Fred Fejes, 2010-2011.
“Ancient South Asia.” Workshop for Middle and Secondary School Educators. January 24, 2012,
5-7 PM. Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Certificate Program and the Office of
International Programs (Dr. Cathy Meschievitz).
College of Arts and Letters Representative, FAU Task Force, India Initiative, International
Academic Partnerships Program (IAPP) of the Institute of International Education (IIE),
2010-2011 [Chair, Catherine Meschievitz, Ph.D., Director, Office of International Programs].
Member, Blackboard 9 Pilot Group, Fall, 2010.
Panel Participant, Film Screening and Discussion Forum, “Tibet: Violent and Non-Violent
Resistance,” part of Peace Week events in honor of visit by Dalai Lama, Florida Atlantic
University, Feb 18, 2010.
Arranged for and hosted visit of Professor Kaushik Bagchi, Goucher College, speaking on
“Ladakh: The Last Shangri-La or Globalizations’s Last Victim?” at FAU Jupiter and FAU
Boca campuses, January 25, 2007.
FAU College of Arts and Letters
Member, Master Teacher Selection Committee, spring 2011 – present.
FAU Jupiter Campus
Member, MacArthur Campus Library Advisory Committee, fall 2005 – present.
“Hoogly River,” photo, 2 nd place prize, 4 th Annual MacART Show, Florida Atlantic University
Jupiter Campus, Spring 2009.
Member, MAC Academic Awards Committee, Jupiter, spring 2006 – spring 2007, spring 2011.
“Gandhian Non-Violence in Action,” Coffee with the Professor Series invited public lecture,
Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, September 15, 2006.
History Department
Chair, Speakers and Awards Committee, fall 2009 – present. Member, fall 2005 – fall 2009.
Member, Executive Committee, fall 2009 – present.
Member, Outreach Committee, fall 2009 – 2011.
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, fall 2008 – spring 2009.
Member, Early America Search Committee for Jupiter campus, fall 2006 – spring 2007.
Community Service
Judge (2012), Judge and Presenter (2008), Palm Beach Post Pathfinders Awards, Political
Science/History.
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Invited lecture: “The German Military and the Holocaust: Collaboration and Resistance.” Military
Officer Association of America, Palm Beach luncheon, May 15, 2010.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Southeast World History Association (SEWHA), Vice President, 2012-2014.
Educational Testing Service, Advanced Placement (AP) Reader, World History, Salt Lake City,
June, 10-16, 2012.
Book Proposal, Outside Reviewer, Bloomsbury Press, for Dr. Gajendra Singh, “Between Self and
Soldier: Indian Sipahis and Their Testimony During the Two World Wars.” Submitted June
10, 2012.
Textbook Proposal, Outside Reviewer, Yale University Press, for “The History of the Holocaust:
Personal Stories of Human Tragedy and Triumph,” Companion volume to The Holocaust
Encyclopedia, Edited by Walter Laqueur and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz. Submitted
August 15, 2012.
Comment, panel 234, “Beyond Imagination: Materializing the Other around 1800.” German
Studies Association Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, September 25, 2011.
Text Reviewer and Class Test, Patterns in World History by Peter von Sivers. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011. Class test in Graduate World History Readings: Empire (WOH 5935),
Summer, 2011.
Book manuscript review, The Orient of Europe: The ‘Mythical Image’ of India and Competing
Images of German National Identity, 1760-1830 by Nick Germana. Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Translation Proposal, Outside Reviewer, Routledge. Geschichte Indiens vom 18. bis zum 21.
Jahrhundert by Michael Mann. August, 2011.
Professional Organizations
American Historical Association, member, 2001- 2009
Association of Asian Studies, member, 2010 - 2011
German Studies Association, member, 1998 -
Southeast World History Association, member, 2009 -
World History Association, member, 2003 -
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