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Curriculum Vitae (abbreviated)


Contact:
Benjamin T. Shannon
Mailbox 4105
Department of History
University of Wisconsin
3211 Mosse Humanities
455 N Park St
Madison, WI. 53706

btshannon@wisc.edu


Education:
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. University of Tennessee-Knoxville
B.A. Winona State University (Summa Cum Laude)


General Field:
European History, 1789 to Present


Primary Field: 
German History, 1871 to Present

Secondary Fields: 
Modern Intellectual History
Modern Jewish History

Minor: 
Religious Studies

Dissertation Title:  "The Political Night Prayer and the Politicization of Religion in West Germany, 1968-1972"
Dissertation Committee: Rudy Koshar (Advisor), Ulrich Rosenhagen, Laird Boswell, Giuliana Chamedes, Joe Dennis, Karl Shoemaker



Professional Experience:
​Lecturer: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016, 2020-1
        History 119 - Europe and the World, 1400-1815
        History 120 - Europe and the Modern World, 1815-Present
        History 201 - The Historian's Craft
        History 357 - World War II
        History 359 - History of Europe since 1945

Teaching Assistant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-9, 2013, 2017, 2019; University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2005-6
        Geography 101 - Introduction to Human Geography
        History 120 - Europe and the Modern World, 1815-Present 
        History 124 - Modern Britain, 1688-Present 
        History 201 - The Historian's Craft
​        History 241 - Western Civilization, 7000 BCE-1789
        History 262 - World History, 1500-Present
        History 351 - Seventeenth-Century Europe
        History 514 - European Intellectual History, 1870-Present

Grader: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010, 2015; University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2004-5 
        Medieval Studies 201 - Medieval Europe, 476-1066
        Medieval Studies 202 - Medieval Europe, 1066- 1453
        History 223 - Democracy in Europe, 1789-2000
        History 223 - War, Race, and Religion in Modern Europe
        History 270 - Eastern Europe since 1900

Research Assistant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006, 2010, 2011-2

Research and Writing Specialist (adviser/editor/grader): University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
        History 425 - History of Poland
        History 475 - European Social History, 1914-Present

Writing Consultant (History Lab): University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017-8   



Publications:
Review of Vor Achtundsechzig: Der Kalte Krieg und die Neue Linke in der Bundesrepublik und den USA by Michael Frey. German History  (2020) (forthcoming)

Review of Bildungswege zu »1968« Eine Kollektivbiografie des Sozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbundes by Andrea Wienhaus. German History, Vol. 33, No. 4, (December 2015): 691-3
.

Review of Talkin' 'bout my generation': Conflicts of Generation Building and Europe's '1968’ by Anna von der Goltz. Focus on German Studies, Vol 19, (2012): 257-9.


Conference Presentations (since 2010):
"The Political Evensong as Model: Christian Renewal in the West German New Left,"  presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, September 18-21, 2014.

“Honor Thy Father?: Radical Christians and the Confessing Church,” presented at the 4th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, October 21, 2011.



Fellowships and Awards (since 2005):
Capstone Teaching Award, Department of History, UW-Madison, 2020
Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award, Institute for Regional and International Studies, UW-Madison, 2015

Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, 2013
Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2012
Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Fellowship, Department of History, UW-Madison, 2012
Bonn Exchange Program (Research Fellowship), International Institute, UW-Madison, 2010
Vilas Travel Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison, 2010, 2012
Travel Award, Department of History, UW-Madison, 2010
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Dutch), Graduate School, UW-Madison, 2008 
Language Study Fellowship (German), MARCO Institute, UT-Knoxville, 2005
Travel Award, Department of History, UT-Knoxville, 2005



Service (since 2005):
Oak Hill Humanities Project, Oak Hill Correctional Institution, 2016-20
Undergraduate Council, History Department, UW-Madison, 2014-5
Joint Committee on Diversity, History Department, UW-Madison, 2011-2
Faculty-Graduate Student Liaison Committee (Chair), History Department, UW-Madison, 2009-10
Faculty Hiring Committee (Graduate Student Representative), History Department, UW-Madison, 2008
Graduate Student Mentor, History Department, UW-Madison, 2007-10



Organizations and Affiliations:
American Historical Association
German Studies Association
Central European History Society
Phi Alpha Theta (Omicron Sigma Chapter)



Language Examinations Passed:
German Proficiency Examination - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dutch Proficiency Examination - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Zertifikat Deutsch (German Citizenship Requirement) - Goethe Institut

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