Raised in Dallas, Texas, Charles Lansing graduated with honors from Vassar College in 1993. As a Fulbright Fellow (1993-1994) he taught in a German high school in the former East German city of Wismar. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2004. He has been teaching at the Universtiy of Connecticut since 2004. Areas of Specialty:
Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the Third Reich and the postwar German states; the Holocaust; European intellectual and social history; European imperialism and colonialism; education in modern Europe. Current Research Interests:
The social, political, cultural, and intellectual legacy of Nazi Germany in the postwar German states; the relationship between the German aristocracy and the Nazi state/party in the Third Reich; attitudes and experiences of Germans under Allied occupation and in the early Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. I am currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled German Nazi Hunters: The Central Agency and Germany's Belated Search for Justice, that explores the role this state institution and its staff played in bringing to justice Nazi criminals and thereby helping shape German attitudes about the National Socialist past.
