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Short Biography of Dr. Robert Ashley MICHAEL

One of the 1997 recipients of the American Historical Association's James Harvey Robinson Prize for the "most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history," Dr. Robert Michael is Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he has taught the Holocaust for nearly thirty years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University in Philosophy, he has published poetry and more than 50 articles and eleven books on the Holocaust and the History of Antisemitism. His play concerning the Holocaust, THE PRESENCE, is to be produced in the fall.

Professor Michael has also taught at Central European University in Budapest, Inter-American University in Puerto Rico, and given lectures at the University of Vienna and at the Ateneo Veneto and University of Venice. He was a founder and co-editor of the scholarly email list H-ANTISEMITISM and formerly editor of H-HOLOCAUST and H-W-CIV. He offered the world's first distance-education course on the Holocaust in 1994 and this year has been invited to teach the same at American Military University.

Dr. Robert Michael's Full Curriculum Vitae

• Professor Emeritus of European History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2001-
• University of Venice, Visiting Lecturer, 2000
• One of the 1997 recipients of the American Historical Association's James Harvey Robinson Prize for the "most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history.
• University of Vienna, Visiting Lecturer, 1996
• Central European University, Budapest, Visiting Professor, 1996
• Former editor, Humanities Network Scholarly Email Lists: H-ANTISEMITISM, H-W-CIVILIZATION, H-HOLOCAUST
• First professor to offer The Holocaust as a cybered (Distance Learning) course. See Mary Lord's story, "Getting a Degree by Email," U.S. News & World Report (October 30, 1995).
• Menorah Review, Contributing Editor, 1989-1996
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Professor of European History, 1971-2001
• University of Connecticut, Ph.D. 1972, European History
• Inter American University, Associate Professor, 1970-1
• Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1970
• University of Connecticut, M.A. 1968, European History (N.D.E.A. Fellow)
• Textbook Editor, 1962-66, Thomas Yoseloff-A.S. Barnes-University of Pennsylvania Press, Hawthorne Books-Prentice-Hall, Bobbs-Merrill, World (New York City)
• Columbia University, 1961-2, Philosophy
• U.S. Army, 1958-61
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1958 (McGeorge Bundy Chaired my Election Committee)
• Boston University, A.B. 1958, Degree with Distinction in Philosophy, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Books

• Holy Hatred: A History of Christian Antisemitism (under consideration at Yale University Press)
• A People Whose Feet Run to Evil: A Concise History of American Antisemitism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2005)
• Dictionary of Antisemitism (New York: Greenwood Press, 2005) [co-author]
• Branded on My Arm and in My Soul: The Holocaust Memoirs of Abraham Landau (New Bedford, Spinner Publications, 2004) [co-author]
• Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich (New York: Greenwood Press, 2001) [co-author]
• The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Picture (Chicago: Publications International, 1999) [co-author]
• The Holocaust: A Chronology and Documentary (New York: Jason Aronson Publishers, 1998)
• The Houghton-Mifflin Guide to the Internet for History (Boston:Houghton-Mifflin, 1996)
• Fatal Image (Needham Heights, MA: Ginn Press, 1992)
• Fatal Vision (Needham Heights, MA: Ginn Press, 1990)
• The Radicals and Nazi Germany (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982)

Play

• "The Presence: A Holocaust Oratorio" (to be produced University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, November 8-10, 2002)

Poetry

• "Apostasy," Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Fall 1982)
• "God Wrestling," Menorah Review (Winter 2002)
• "I don't want to die before I die," Menorah Review (Spring 2002)
• "Easter, 1903," Menorah Review (Winter 2003)

Principal academic papers since 1990

• "Nazi-Deutsch," Deutsches Haus New York University (October 2002)
• "Antisemitisms," Keynote Speaker at Teaching About the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights: A Seminar for Teachers in Public and Private Schools and In Religious Congregations (Sunday, March 24, 2002)
• "Nazis, Nazi-Deutsch, and the Holocaust," Ateneo Veneto (Venice) (November 2001)
• "Nazi-Deutsch," University of Venice (November 2001)
• "Teaching the Holocaust in Cybereducation: A Model for Teaching the History of Western Civilization," New England Historical Association (October 1997)
• "The Nature of Historical Research on the Internet, Present and Future," American Historical Association (January 1997)
• "The Continuity of Papal Jewish Policy," Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College (April 1996)
• "The Internet and History," Northeastern University, 1995
• "Black-Jewish Relations," Colloquium on Race," University of Massachusetts Boston, September 1995
• "Medieval Historians and the Internet," Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, April 1994
• "Crusaders and Jews During the First and Second Crusade," Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, April 1992

Major Articles

• "Antisemitism: Did the Holocaust have its origins in the antisemitism of the nineteenth century?" in History in Dispute, Vol. 11: The Holocaust, ed. Tandy McConnell. (Gale Publishing, 2002)"
• "Sub Spieces Aeternitatis: Teaching After Teaching," Chronicle of Higher Education (November 2002)
• "Kishinev, 1903-2003," Menorah Review (Fall 2002)
• Peter Bertocci," Boston University College of Arts and Sciences (Fall 2002)
• "Emeritus," Chronicle of Higher Education Review (Summer 2002)
• "The Present and Future of the Internet for Scholars," On Campus (1997)
• "Antisemitism and the Church Fathers," chapter in Marvin Perry and Frederick Schweitzer, Jewish-Christian Encounters Through the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue (New York 1995).
• "Religious Antisemitism and American Immigration Policy During the Holocaust," Australian Journal of Jewish Studies vol. 7, no. 1 (1993), pp. 9-40.
• "Christian Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust" (Part II), Menorah Review (Winter 1993-1994), pp. 2-5.
• "Christian Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust" (Part I), Menorah Review (Fall 1993)
• "Facts and Fallacies About Jewish-Christian Relations," Menorah Review (Fall 1992)
• "In the Lifeboat Together: American Protestants and Jews," Menorah Review (Virginia Commonwealth University)
• "Christian Theological Antisemitism: Jewish Values Turned Upside-Down," Menorah Review (Spring 1992), pp. 3-5.
• "Christian Antisemitism and Richard Wagner: A Reexamination," Patterns of Prejudice (December 1991-January 1992).
• "Puzzling Over Evil," Judaica Book News (Fall/Winter 1990-1), pp. 29-30, 32.
• "Dreyfus and French Catholicism," Menorah Review, Virginia Commonwealth University (Summer 1990), pp. 3-5.
• "Theologia Gloriae and Civilt Cattolica's Attitudes Toward the Jews of the Holocaust," Encounter: Creative Theological Scholarship, Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring, 1989, pp. 151-66.
• "Theological Myth, German Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Case of Martin Niemoeller," reprinted in Michael Marrus, ed., The Nazi Holocaust (Westport, CT. and London: Meckler 1988).
• "Review of Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemoeller's Letters," Holocaust and Genocide Studies: An International Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1988), pp. 229-31.
• "The Persistence of Theologia Gloriae in Modern Antisemitism: Voltaire, Wagner, Hitler," Remembering for the Future: Jews and Christians During and After the Holocaust (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988), Vol. 1, pp. 720-35.
• "Theological Myth, German Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Case of Martin Niemoeller," Holocaust and Genocide Studies: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1987), pp. 105-22.
• "Luther, Luther Scholars, and the Jews," Encounter (Fall 1985), pp. 339-56.
• "The Holocaust in Night and Fog," Cineaste (December 1984), pp. 36-7.
• "The Holocaust in Historical, Moral, and Theological Perspective," Encounter: Creative Theological Scholarship (Summer 1984), pp. 259-70.
• "The Foreign Policies of the Radical Party, 1933-1939," Third Republic/Troisieme Republique (Spring 1984), pp. 1-92.
• "Confronting and Transcending the Holocaust: Is It Possible?" Judaica Book News (Fall 1982), pp. 23-8.

Other Publications

• "The History of the Martial Arts: From Classical Greece, Through Asia, To the United States," Black Belt Magazine (Summer 1996).
• "Surviving the Holocaust" and "Martyrdom & Resistance as a Guide to History of the Holocaust," in Harvey Rosenfeld and Eli Zborowski, eds., A Legacy Recorded (New York 1994), pp. 86-89, 146-149.
• "Good and Evil," Liberal Judaism (electronic publication), 1 Jan. 94.
• "Review of Memory Offended," Martyrdom and Resistance (1993), pp. 2, 4.
• "What the Martial Arts Mean to America," Karate International (August 1992), pp. 8-10.
• "America's, Britain's Failure to Rescue Jews," Martyrdom and Resistance (November-December 1991), pp. 7, 15.
• "State Department Said No to Rescue . . . But Only When It Concerned Jews," Martyrdom and Resistance (September-October 1991), pp. 3, 12.
• "American Literary Antisemitism: Twentieth Century," in Midstream (August-September 1991), pp. 27-29.
• "Review of Egal Feldman, Dual Destinies: The Jewish Encounter with Protestant America," Martyrdom and Resistance (May/June 1991), pp. 2-3.
• "Review of Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann, eds., Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1945," R�ue Etudes Internationales (Universite Laval) (December 1990), pp. 885-87.
• "Review of Collection de Droit International, le Proces de Nuremberg:Consequences et Actualisation, Revue Etudes Internationales (May 1990).
• "Review of Robert Herzstein, Roosevelt & Hitler:Prelude to War, Martyrdom and Resistance (April-May 1990)
• "Review of Gottfried-Karl Kindermann, Hitler's Defeat in Austria, 1933-1934: Europe's First Containment of Nazi Expansionism," Revue Etudes Internationales (December 1989), Vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 914-16.
• "Review of A Bibliography of Jewish-Christian Relations," Judaica Book News (Fall 1989).
• "Review of Charles Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity," Shofar: Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 1989, pp. 101-4.
• "Review of Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Tremble, The International Society for Yad Vashem: Martyrdom and Resistance (May-June 1989), pp. 2, 14.
• "The Miracle of Jewish Resistance," Martyrdom and Resistance (March-April 1989), pp. 7, 12.
• "Review of Stanislav J. Kirschbaum and Anne C. R. Roman, eds., Reflections on Slovak History," Revue Etudes Internationales (Universite Laval), Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 1988), pp. 744-6.
• "The Jews in Medieval Art," New England Historical Association Bulletin (Fall 1988)
• "British Government Attitudes Toward Jewish Immigration During the Holocaust," Martyrdom and Resistance (November-December 1987)
• "The Jew as Antihero: Christian Images of the Jew in Medieval Art," Proceedings of the Seventh Medieval Forum (1986)
• "Theological Myth, Christian Antisemitism, and The Merchant of Venice," Martyrdom and Resistance (January-February 1986)
• "America and the Holocaust," Midstream (February 1985)
• "American Antisemitism and the Holocaust," The South African Jewish Spectator Annual (Fall 1984)
• "Theological Myth, Christian Antisemitism, and the Holocaust" Midstream (March 1984)
• "German and American Antisemitism During the Holocaust: A Theological Interpretation," The Jewish Review (U.K.) (January 1984)
• "The Holocaust: Some Reflections," National Catholic Reporter (January 1984)
• "Surviving the Holocaust: Some Reflections," Martyrdom and Resistance (November-December 1983)
• "Hostile Myths, German Christian Antisemitism," Martyrdom and Resistance (September-October 1983)
• "Parallels Between Medieval and Modern Antisemitic Myths," Proceedings of the Fourth Medieval Forum (1983)
• "The Theological Causes of the Holocaust," Martyrdom and Resistance (May-June 1982)
• "The Terrible Flaw of Night and Fog," Martyrdom and Resistance (September-October 1981)

Courses Taught at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

• History of Germany
• French Revolution and Napoleon
• Modern France
• History of Western Civilization I & II
• History of Western Civilization I & II through Films of Historical Fiction
• War and Diplomacy
• The Holocaust
• Seminar in the History of Christian-Jewish Relations
• Ethical Issues of Antisemitism (General Education/Honors course)
• Teaching History/Teaching the Holocaust (graduate course)
• The Holocaust [cybered]

Electronic Professional Activities

• Editor at H-Net, Humanities Electronic Network, a stable of more than 70 electronic scholarly lists in the Humanities, created at the University of Illinois Chicago
• Editorial positions:
  • Co-Editor HOLOCAUS (Holocaust)
  • Founder and Co-Editor H-ANTIS (Scholarly History of Antisemitism)
  • Co-Editor, H-W-CIV (History of Western Civilization)
  • Former Co-Editor newsgroup SOC.CULTURE.JEWISH.HOLOCAUST
  • Founder, UMASSD INTERNET USERS GROUP
  • Founder, UMASSD.INTERNAUTS Newsgroup
• Electronic Teaching Offered:
  • Internet Course on the Holocaust sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Division of Continuing Education (Fall 1995)
  • Workshop for Public School Teachers sponsored by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Arts and Sciences (Spring Semester 1995)
  • Workshop for Northeastern University Faculty (Spring 1995)
  • Workshop on the Internet sponsored by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Academic Computing Service (Summer 1995)
  • Workshop for Medieval Historians sponsored by Plymouth State College (April 1994 and April 1995)
• Contributor to:
  • H-TEACH (Washington University and University of Chicago)
  • HOLOCAUS (University of Illinois Chicago)
  • BRITAIN & THE JEWS (Roger Williams College)
  • H-FILM (University of Houston)
  • IATH-L (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; University of Virginia)
  • ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, University of Kansas)
  • ECCHST-L (History of Christianity)
• Reader:
  • SOPHIA (Ancient Philosophy, University of Liverpool)
  • THUCIDIDES (Temple University)
  • MDVLPHIL (Medieval Philosophy and Political Science, Louisiana State University)
  • H-EDIT (Prof. Richard Jensen, U. of Illinois, Chicago)
  • ECHO (European Commission Host Organization)
  • IOUDAIOS (First-Century Judaism, Tel Aviv University)
  • DEREMI-L (medieval warfare, University of Kansas)
  • WWII-L (World War 2)
  • CONTENTS (Religious Studies, University of Ottawa)
  • GUTNBERG (electronic publication of historical and literary texts)
• Electronic Seminars:
  • ST. AUGUSTINE (Prof. James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1994);
  • RACISM (run by Prof. Gary Klass, Illinois State University, Spring 1994)
• Subject-Matter Expert in Jewish History (Electronic-Emissary Project, University of Texas at Austin & Texas Center the Educational Technology)