Invitation to Cover: Senior Holocaust Scholar to Present at Kutztown University March 26
Kutztown, PA (03/25/2019) — Dr. Ed Westermann, professor of German History at Texas A&M San Antonio and current Shapiro Fellow in residence at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will speak at Kutztown University on Tuesday, March 26, at Academic Forum room 103 from 11-11:50 a.m. His presentation is titled, "Drunk on Genocide? Alcohol and Atrocity."
The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Westermann is Professor of History at Texas A&M University, where he teaches courses related to Modern and Contemporary European History. Dr. Westermann earned his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellow at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Dr. Westermann will conduct research for his monograph, "Rituals of Mass Murder: Alcohol and Atrocity in the Holocaust."
Dr. Westermann is the recipient of various awards and fellowships. In 2016, Southern Methodist University awarded him with the Clements Center-DeGolyer Library Research Grant (USA). He has also been a Fulbright fellow at the Free University of Berlin in 1995 and a German Academic Exchange Service fellow on three occasions (Germany). For the academic year of 2016-2017, Dr. Westermann was the recipient of the Texas A&M University-San Antonio Inaugural Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Media interested in attending should contact Bryan Salvadore, KU director of communications, at salvadore@kutztown.edu.
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