Education:
Ph.D., Ohio University - 2000 (History)
M.A., Ohio University - 1996 (History)
B.A., Miami University - 1989 (International Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Steven Remy is a scholar of modern German history. The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University (Harvard, 2003), examined the responses of scholars to National Socialism. The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy (Harvard, 2017) deals with debates over war crimes trials in the U.S. and Germany. Most recently he has written the first English-language biographical encyclopedia on Adolf Hitler's life (Rowman & Littlefied, 2021).
Books and Publications
War Crimes: Law, Politics, & Armed Conflict in the Modern World (Routledge, 2022) (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2022
"Adolf Hitler: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021 as part of the Significant Figures in World History series) (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2021
"Historical Perspectives on January 6, 2021: A Conversation with Esther Adaire and Steve Remy," EuropeNow, July 2021 (https://www.europenowjournal.org/2021/07/25/historical-perspectives-on-january-6-2021-a-conversation-with-esther-adaire-and-steve-remy/) (Books and Publications: Other) 2021
"Teaching about Collaboration: A Case Study Approach," in Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt, eds., Understanding the Teaching the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2020
Professor Remy's study of American war crimes trials in post-World War II Germany, "The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy," was published by Harvard University Press in February 2017. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2017
"Las universidades alemanas y el nacionalsocialismo: La Universidad Ruprecht-Karls de
Heidelberg" Ayer 101/2016 (1) (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"'We Are No Longer the University of the Liberal Age': National Socialism and the Humanities at Heidelberg University." National Socialism and the Humanities. Eds. Anson Rabinbach and Wolfgang Bialas. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oneworld Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2007
"Hans Habe, Stefan Heym, and Guy Stern as 'Citizen Soldiers' and Cultural Mediators." Cultural Politics "Political Culture / Kulturpolitik" Politische Kultur. Eds. Bernhard Fischer and Helen Feherhavy. Peter Lang. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2007
"Deutsch-Jüdische Flüchtlinge im dienst der U.S. Armee." Cilly Kugelmann & Jürgen Reicher. Eds. Heimat and Exil. Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Geistesaristokratie und Entnazifizierung. Die gescheiterte 'Amerikanisierung' der Universität Heidelberg nach 1945." America on My Mind: Zur Amerikaniseriung der deutschen Kultur seit 1945. Eds. Alexander Stephan and Jochen Vogt. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2006
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Recipient of a Tow Faculty Research Travel Fellowship (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
Faculty Research Visit Grant, German Academic Exchange Service. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Academic Fellowship, to attend a seminar for American scholars on terrorism and democracies in Israel in June. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"The Real First World War: Colonial Wars as a Global Conflict," presented to the inaugural History, Heritage & Politics Divisional Research Seminar at the University of Stirling, Scotland, January 22, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
Professional Leadership
Joined Brooklyn College and New York University faculty and administrators in study tour of Israel sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2015
Community Activities
"Small Wars as the First World World War: Reconsidering the 'Great War'," paper presented to the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Global Security and Governance, March 12, 2019 2019
panelist, with Thomas Weber, Martin Davidson, Roxana Spicer, Niki Stein, & Wieland Giebel, "The Depiction of Adolf Hitler on TV & in film," Centre for Global Security and Governance, University of Aberdeen, March 21, 2019 2019
Keynote address, student historical research conference, Poly Prep Country Day School, Brooklyn, New York, April 26 2018
Public lecture, "The 'Mischlinge' - Courage, Chance, and Choice during and after the Holocaust," delivered at Congregation B'nai Israel in Rumson, New Jersey on April 15 on the occasion of Yom Hashoah
2018
"The Strangest Place in the United States: Camp Ritchie and the German-Jewish GI's Who Defeated the Nazis," delivered at Congregation B'nai Israel, Rumson, New Jersey, April 23, 2017 2017
Other Professional Activities
Advisory Board member, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, CUNY Graduate Center 2020
Appearance on the History Channel 2 program, "Nazis: Ultimate Evil" on Sept. 18, 2014, and on two episodes of the National Geographic series Nazi Mega Weapons in January 2015. He appeared again on Reich, a History Channel series on the history of Nazi Germany, in 2015. 2015
Guest scholar, Jena Center 20th Century History, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena (Germany), fall. 2012
