WCGS Book Prize Shortlist for 2017

WCGS Book Prize 2017 Finalists

Here are the Finalists for the WCGS Book Prize 2017!

Read about other finalists and winners here.

Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity

  • Author: Katherine Stone (Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick)
  • About the book: "Investigates why the question of women's complicity in National Socialism has struggled to capture the collective imagination, examining how a variety of female authors have conceptualized the role of women in the Third Reich."
  • Publisher information: Boydell and Brewer

Sexual Treason during the First World War

  • Author: Lisa M. Todd (Associate Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick)
  • About the book:"Provides the first comprehensive study of sexual lives in Germany and German-occupied Europe during the First World War." 
  • Publisher Information: Palgrave Macmillan

Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth Century Germany

  • Author: Alice Weinreb (Associate Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago)
  • About the book: "The first book to show how hunger has been central to German politics throughout the twentieth century."  *** Winner of the WCGS Book Prize 2017
  • Publisher Information: Oxford University Press

 The Architecture of Narrative Time: Thomas Mann and the Problems of Modern Narrative

  • Author: Erica Wickerson (Research Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge)
  • About the book: "An original view on how an analysis of time in literature can open our eyes to how we express human experience."
  • Publisher Information: Oxford University Press

 The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

  • Author: Jonathan O. Wipplinger (Assistant Professor of German, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
  • About the book: "Examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933." 
  • Publisher Information: University of Michigan Press

 Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany

  • Author: Jenny Wüstenberg (DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto)
  • About the book: "Blending history and social science, this book tracks the role of social movements in shaping German public memory and values since 1945." 
  • Publisher Information: Cambridge University Press