I’ve written or edited seven books in modern European and German history in over thirty years of teaching at the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research has won Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies, Humboldt, Max-Planck Institute, and Jean Monnet fellowships. In the past few years, I’ve turned to writing fiction and poetry. My short stories appear in Revolution House, Forge, Blinking Cursor, Eclectica, Sleetmagazine, and Thunder Sandwich. I have poems published in the Fall 2012 issue of Avocet.