Dr. Anthony J. Steinhoff
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Education
1989-1996 The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Ph.D. in History with Distinction, December 1996.
- Dissertation: "Protestants in Strasbourg, 1870-1914: Religion and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe"
- Fields: Modern German History, Modern French History, Colonial American History
- M.A., Modern European History, December 1990.
1985-1989 Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
- B.A., summa cum laude with High Honors in History, 1989; minors in French and Music.
Grants and Honors
NEH Summer Stipend. 2001.
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Summer Research Grant, 2001.
University of Chattanooga Foundation Summer Fellowship, 2001.
Finalist, 1997 Friends of the German Historical Institute Dissertation Prize.
Fellow, Institut für Europäische Geschichte; Mainz, Germany. January to September 1994.
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Doctoral Research Fellowship. November 1992 to October 1993.
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Doctoral Research Fellowship. July to October 1992.
DAAD-Goethe Institut Program Fellowship. July to August 1991.
Phi Beta Kappa. 1989.
NEH Younger Scholar Fellowship (Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution Initiative). 1986.
Publications
"Building Religious Community: Lutheran Worship Space and Experience in Strasbourg, 1870-1914" in Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914, ed. Helmut Walser Smith, 267-96 (Oxford: Berg, 2001).
"Les Protestants à Strasbourg entre 1870 et 1914: La religion et la société en Europe à la fin du 19e siècle," Revue d'Alsace 27 (2001): 298-311.
"The Administration of Protestant Affairs in France During the Second Empire," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 26 (2000): 192-203.
Book reviews in Catholic Historical Review, Church History, German Studies Review, Journal of Modern History.
Work in Progress
The God of the City? Religious Culture and Modernization in Strasbourg, 1870-1914.
"Ein zweites konfessionelles Zeitalter? Nachdenken über die Religion im langen 19. Jahrhundert," Geschichte und Gesellschaft, under review.
"Religion as Urban Culture: A View from Strasbourg, 1870-1914."
"Limiting the Feminization of Religion? The Debate over Female Suffrage for Protestant Church Elections in Alsace-Lorraine."
"The Socialization of Religious Identities: Public Schools and Religious Education in Strasbourg, 1870-1914."
"Defining Citizens during the French Revolution: A Priestly Perspective."
Presentations and Conferences
Organizer and Participant, "The Alsatian Frontier in the Imagination of France and Germany," Roundtable at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2002.
"Religion als Bestandteil großstädtischer Kultur: Beispiele aus der Geschichte Straßburgs 1870-1914," presented at the University of Tübingen, Seminar für Zeitgeschichte, July 2001.
"Gendering Religious Identity in Imperial Germany: Evidence from Protestant Strasbourg (1870-1914)," Young Scholars Forum on "Gender, Power, Religion: Forces in Cultural History," German Historical Institute Washington, D.C., March-April 2001.
"Making Modern France: Just Add Religion?," Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2001.
"Confessionalization: A Useful Paradigm for Understanding Religion and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Europe?," Conference on Religion and Modernity in Central Europe, Chicago, October 2000.
"Religion as Urban Culture: A View from Strasbourg, 1871-1914," Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Houston, Tex., October 2000.
"Defining Citizenship during the French Revolution: A Priestly Perspective," Society for French Historical Studies, Phoenix, Ariz., March-April 2000.
"Protestant Music, Liturgy, and Religious Identity in Strasbourg, 1871-1914," American Society for Church History/American Historical Association. January 2000.
"Organizing Protestantism in Early 19th-Century Europe: Perspectives from France and Germany," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe. February 1999.
"The Administration of Protestant Affairs in France during the Second Empire," Western Society for French History. November 1998.
"Rousseau und die demokratische Idee im ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert," Department of Political Science, University of Passau, Passau, Germany. June 23, 1998.
"L'urbanisation à Strasbourg au temps du Reichsland: reflexions sur les conséquences pour sa communauté protestante," presented to the Société Reuss, Strasbourg, France. May 25, 1998.
"L'identité protestante à Strasbourg de 1871-1914." Paper delivered to the Société de l'histoire du Protestantisme en Alsace; Strasbourg, France. March 1993.
Courses Taught
| World Civilizations (Beginnings to 1000) | Western Civilization (Ancient Greece to Present) |
| The Rise of European Civilization | Modern Europe since 1715 |
| Churches and States in Europe 1789-1918 | Nineteenth-Century Europe |
| Twentieth-Century Europe | Research into Contemporary Europe |
| French Revolution and Napoleon | Paris 1815-1914 |
| Under Hitler's Shadow: Europe 1929-1945 | The Historical Foundations of the Social Sciences |
Professional Activities
Participant, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization; Northwestern University/Holocaust Educational Foundation. June-July 1999.
Invited Participant, 36th Studienwoche of the German-Italian Historical Institute in Trent; Trent, Italy. September 1993.
Invited Participant, Archival and Paleographic Seminar of the German Historical Institute-Washington; Wolfenbüttel, Germany. June 1992.
Member: American Historical Association, American Society for Church History, German Studies Association, Society for French Historical Studies, Western Society for French History.
Research Interests
Religion and society in nineteenth-century Germany and France; urban history; political thought and action in modern Europe, esp. 1850-1945; music and the European cultural tradition in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Teaching Interests
German Europe since 1700; Modern France; Religion in Europe since 1517; Political Parties and Politics in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe; European Intellectual and Cultural History; European Urban History; Modern European Political and Cultural History; World Civilizations; Western Civilization; Europe since 1500.
