Nicole Dombrowski Risser (Ph.D. New York University)

Professor Dombrowski is a historian of World War II, gender and armed conflict and Occupied France. Dr. Dombrowski's research focuses on the issue of wartime human rights protections and survival strategies for international displaced refugees.

Selected Publications:

                   Nicole Ann Dombrowski, ed. Women and War in the 20th Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent

                      (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999; Reprint Edition: Routledge, 2004).

 

                   "The Exodus," "The Battle of France," "War Refugees," "Occupied Zone," The Dictionary of

                       Vichy France, ed., Bertram Gordon (New York: Greenwood Press, 1998).

 

                   "Review: The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44 by Nicholas Atkin." H-France Review

                       Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 89.

 

                   "A Review of Joy Damousi's Living With the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief Living With The

                      Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief Australia, (Cambridge, 2003)." Journal of Social History

                     (December, 2004).

 

                   "Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War By Tammy M. Proctor." French

                       Studies 59, no.1 (2005), 119-120.

 

                   Locating the Displaced: A Review of Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement: Refugees and

                      the Politics of Humanitarianism," Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace of Research (January, 2003).

 

 

Students

 

Lisa Hammond

Ms. Hammond is a Towson graduate student in the Master of Social Science program concentrating on the medieval history of Scotland. Ms. Hammond works on digitization and preservation and has served as the lead technical and editorials support on the Gantt Papers.

 

Scott Spaulding

Mr. Spaulding is a Towson undergraduate working on his Bachelor's Degree in History. He is working on cataloguing the digitized volumes and creating a glossary for the website.

 

John Walsh

Mr. Walsh is a Towson undergraduate student working on his Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Media; he is working on the editing and preparation of an oral history related to the Gantt Papers.

 

Previous Contributors

 

Wendy Lower (Ph.D. American University)

 

Dr. Lower has been researching the Holocaust for the past 14 years and publishing her work since 1997. She is on the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Genocide Research. Her recent book examines the inter-relationship of Nazi empire building, war and genocide in the setting of Ukraine, 1941-1944. Before joining Towson's faculty, Dr. Lower managed the fellowships program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. She is currently editing a 1943 diary penned by a Jewish victim of the Holocaust. The diary will be designed for undergraduate and secondary educators, and will help students better understand the importance of diary writing to victims of persecution as well as the diary's themes of resistance, collaboration and human suffering. Additionally, Dr. Lower is researching a manuscript on war crimes trials.

Courses: The Holocaust in Historical and Comparative Perspective; History of Modern Germany; History of the Soviet Union.

 

Selected Publications:

 

                    Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

 

                    "Facilitating Genocide: Nazi Ghettoization Practices in Occupied Ukraine, 1941-1944," in Life in the

                        Ghettos During the Holocaust. ed. E Sterling (Syracuse University Press, 2005).

 

                   "Hitler's Garden of Eden: Lebensraum and Genocide," Gray Zones of the Holocaust: New Research and

                       Interpretations ed. John Roth (Berghahn, 2005).

 

 

Linda Bishai (Ph.D in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science;

                      J.D. Georgetown University Law Center 1991; LLM in International Law, Stockholm

                     University 1999)

 

Professor Linda Bishai joined the Towson University Faculty in September 2000 after a one-year fellowship researching humanitarian intervention issues at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. She received her PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1999. Her dissertation was titled: Secession and the Theory & Practice of International Relations. Dr. Bishai has also trained in law (J.D. Georgetown University Law Center 1991) with an emphasis in International Law (LLM in International Law, Stockholm University 1999). She has taught undergraduates The Structure of International Society and Politics and Policy of the USA in London, as well as guests lecturing on international law issues to both undergraduates and master students in Stockholm. Thus far at Towson, Dr. Bishai has taught Introduction to International Relations, Honors International Relations, International Law, International Relations Theory, Seminar on the Use of Force, and Force and Aggression in the International System. she has taught a graduate course titled, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Problems which focused on issues of human rights.

 

Alicia Wolf

Ms. Wolf is an undergraduate at Towson University working toward a Bachelor's Degree in History; she worked on detailed cataloguing of the Gantt Papers.

 

Lindsey Nieberlein

Ms. Wolf is an undergraduate at Towson University working toward a Bachelor's Degree in History; she worked on detailed cataloguing of the Gantt Papers.