Guest

Prof. Andrew Demshuk, PhD

01.07.2024 - 31.07.2024

Contemporary History

  • Fellow

    Leibniz Fellowship - Value of the Past

    Research topic:
    Cultural dimensions of open-cast lignite mining in the south of Leipzig

  • Institution

    American University, Washington, United States

  • Research regions

    • Leipzig
    • Central and Eastern Europe

  • Research focuses

    • Environmental History
    • Cultural History
    • Time of the German Reunification

  • Publications (selection)

    • Three Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).
    • Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020).
    • Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
    • The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945‐1970 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
    • “Architecture beyond Ideology: The Politics of Forgotten Landmarks in Communist East Germany,” Journal of Urban History 47, no. 2 (March 2021): 420‐449

  • Previous stays

    04.07.2022 - 14.08.2022
    Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

    25.05.2018 - 30.06.2018
    Guest Researcher at the GWZO