Faculty Profile

		Jonathan Petropoulos, Ph.D. John V. Croul Professor of European History E-mail: jpetropoulos@cmc.edu Phone: (909) 607-2775 Campus Address: 528 Mills Avenue 207 Departments: History Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (1983); A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University (1990)

Teaching Interests

• German History
• Art and politics
• European social history, especially the history of the European aristocracy
• The Holocaust

Research Interests

• National Socialism
• Art looting
• European aristocracy
• The Holocaust

Selected Professional Activities

• Research Director for Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States. 3/99-10/2001
• Administrative Director and Board Member of The Project for the Documentation of Wartime Cultural Losses. 6/98-10/2001
• Consultant on looted artwork for US Department of State. 7/97-present
• Scholarly Associate at Kunstlerhaus Wien. 12/93-4/94

Selected Research and Publications

• Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (New York/London: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Art as Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
• Co-editor with Scott Denham (Davidson) and Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth), A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
• Editorial Board Member for Elizabeth Simpson, ed., The Spoils of War: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property During and After World War II (New York: Harry Abrams, 1997)
• "For Sale: A Troubled Legacy," in ARTnews (June 2001), 114-20
• "Kunstraub: Warum es wichtig ist, die Biographien der Kunstsachverstaendigen im Dritten Reich zu verstehen," in Dieter Stiefel, ed., Die Politische Oekonomie des Holocaust (Vienna: Querschnitt, 2001).
• "Exposing Deep Files," in ARTnews 98/1 (Jan. 1999), 143-44.
• "Holocaust Denial: A Generational Typology," in Peter Hayes, ed., Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Memory, Memorialization, and Denial (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998), 239-47.
• "Business as Usual: Switzerland, the Commerce in Artworks during and After World War II, and National Identity," in Contemporary Austrian Studies VII (1998), 229-42.
• "German Laws and Directives Bearing on the Appropriation of Cultural Property in the Third Reich," in Elizabeth Simpson, ed., The Spoils of War: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property During and After World War II (New York: Harry Abrams, 1996), 106-111.
• "The Primacy of Kulturpolitik: Tolerance, Hegemony, and Subsumption in Interwar Austria as a Background to the Artist in Exile," in John Czaplicka, ed., Emigrants and Exiles: A Lost Generation of Austrian Artists in America, 1920-1950 (Vienna/New York: Oesterreichische Galerie, 1996), 71-100.

Selected Awards

• Huntoon Senior Teaching Award (outstanding teacher), Claremont McKenna College, 2002
• New York Public Library, The Faustian Bargain named one of the 25 most memorable books of 2000.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, fellowship for 2000-2001
• Holocaust Educational Foundation, Research Grant, summer 1998
• Enhancing Classroom Teaching (for trip to Holocaust sites in Eastern Europe), Loyola College, 1995
• Selected as "Young Leader" by the American Council on Germany, August 1993
• Harvard University Committee on Undergraduate Education Distinguished Teaching Award, 1988-89 and 1989-90