Benjamin G. Martin

Curriculum Vitae (Download as PDF)

EDUCATION:                       

Columbia University, Department of History
PhD, 2006. “A New Order for European Culture: the German-Italian Axis and the Reordering of International Cultural Exchange, 1936-1943.” Thesis Sponsor: Prof. Victoria de Grazia
MPhil, 2000; MA, 1998. Master’s Thesis: “Celebrating the Nation’s Poets: The Political Appropriation of Cultural Symbols in Fascist Italy”     

University of Chicago. AB (with Honors), 1996. Concentration in Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian)
Phi Beta Kappa, 1996

HONORS, AWARDS:           

Erasmus Mundus Research and Teaching Fellow in EuroCulture Program (September 2007, Uppsala University, Sweden; June-July 2008, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland)

Post-doctoral Fellow, Berlin Program in Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Spring, 2006)

Graduate Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University (2003- 2005)

German Chancellor Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Germany (2001-2002)

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (1998-2003)

DAAD Summer Language Course in Leipzig, Participant (1998)

Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellow, Columbia University Department of History (1997-1998)

Fulbright Grant, Fulbright IIE/USIA Fellowship, Rome, Italy (1996-97)

TEACHING:           

Assistant Professor, History Department, San Francisco State University (January 2008-present)

Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Lecturer in EuroCulture Program as Erasmus Mundus Fellow (September 2007)    
                                   
Columbia University: Preceptor (Instructor), “Contemporary Civilization” (2003-2004, 2004-2005)

Columbia University: Teaching Assistant to Prof. Samuel Moyn, “European Intellectual History, 1880-1940” (Fall, 2002)

Columbia University: Teaching Assistant to Prof. Volker Berghahn, “Modern Germany, 1914-1989” (Spring, 2000)

CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS:

Council for European Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago (March 2008):“European Culture as Soft Power: Understanding Axis Wartime Cultural Politics,” (part of a panel co-created with Prof. Tim Kirk, University of Newcastle, on “Culture in the Nazi New Order”)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

“'European Cinema for Europe!’ The International Film Chamber, 1935-1942,” in David Welch and Roel Van de Winkel, eds., Cinema and the Swastika. The International Expansion of the Third Reich Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007): 25-41. [Winner, Willy Haas Award for best new book on German cinema, awarded by CineFest, International Festival of German Cinema Heritage].

“Celebrating the Nation’s Poets: Petrarch, Leopardi, and the Appropriation of Cultural Symbols in Fascist Italy,” in Roger Crum and Claudia Lazzaro, eds., Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005): 187-202.

Review of Sven Reichardt and Armin Nolzen, eds., Faschismus in Italien und Deutschland: Studien zu Transfer und Vergleich (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005), in H-German (June 2007) at: www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13257

Review of Eric Michaud, The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004) and Birgit Schwarz, Hitlers Museum. Die Fotoalben Gemädegalerie Linz (Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau, 2004) in H-Soz-und-Kult (March 2006) at: www.hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2006-3-148

Review of György Réti, Hungarian-Italian Relations in the Shadow of Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1940 (Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 2003) in H-German (March 2005) at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=10356

Review of François Dufay, Die Herbstreise. Französischer Schriftsteller im Oktober 1941 in Deutschland. Ein Bericht (Berlin: Siedler, 2001) and Mirella Serri, Il breve viaggio. Giaime Pintor nella Weimar nazista (Venezia: Marsilio, 2002), in H-Soz-u-Kult (German-English H-Net Website for Social and Cultural Historians) at: <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2004-1-069>