Erik N. Jensen

Contact

• jensenen@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 266 Upham Hall
• 513-529-9297
• Office hours: W 5:15-6:15, F 12:30-2

Title

• Assistant Professor of History

Education

• PhD 2003, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• MA, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• BA, Harvard University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Modern Europe
• 20th century Germany
• Gender, sexuality, the body
• Sports

Recently taught graduate courses

• HST 471/571 The Age of Bismarck
• HST 720/770 Graduate Colloquium: European Modernity 1890-1930

Current/recent graduate student research

• Miranda Carrell, “‘I Was Not Political’: The Gendering of Patriotism and Collaboration in World War II France,” 2009

Selected Publications

• “Between Sensationalism and Sport: Women’s Boxing in Weimar Germany,” American Council on Germany Fellowship E-Newsletter, no. 2, 2007
• “Images of the Ideal: Sports, Gender, and the Emergence of the Modern Body in Weimar Germany,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Issue 36, 2005
• “Crowd Control: Boxing Spectatorship and Social Order in Weimar Germany,” Histories of Leisure, ed. Rudy Koshar, Berg, 2002
• “The Pink Triangle and Political Consciousness: Gays, Lesbians, and the Memory of Nazi Persecution,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 11, nos. 1-2, 2002

Selected Grants and Awards

• Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society, and Culture, sponsored by the American Council on Germany, 2006

Work in Progress

Dr. Jensen’s current project, Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity, reconsiders one of the central phenomena of the 1920s: the emergence of new ideals for men and women, and it does so through an examination of competitive athletes. The book is under contract with Oxford University Press.