Background:
RICHARD BODEK (Germany, Modern European Social and Cultural) Professor of History received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990. He has taught graduate-level courses in German History, Labor History, and Historiography. His publications include "The Not-So-Golden Twenties: Everyday Life and Communist Agitprop in Weimar-Era Berlin", Journal of Social History (1996); "Red Song: Social Democratic Music and Radicalism at the End of the Weimar Republic", Central European History (1995); and "Communist Music in the Streets: Politics and Perceptions in Berlin at the End of the Weimar Republic", in James Retallack and Larry Eugene Jones, eds., Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives (Cambridge, 1992). His book, Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht appeared in 1997. Bodek has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and the German Academic Exchange Service. His latest publication is "Beowulf" published in The Explicator, 62, No.3, (Spring 2004): 130-132.
" A Political Tevye? Yiddishkeit, Scholem Aleichem and the Novels of Stefan Heym," Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (Berghahn Books) forthcoming.

Professor of history, Professor Bodek has been at the College of Charleston since 1990. He has studied or taken degrees at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, the University of Tübingen, and the Free University of Berlin. His research interests center on the cultural world of German Judaism from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1950s. At present he is working on a book tentatively titled, Germany in the German-Jewish Literary Imagination. Professor Bodek teaches several courses for the Jewish Studies Program, including Modern Jewish History, European Jewish History, and German-Jewish Culture.

Former Fulbright Fellows among the College of Charleston faculty include:

Richard Bodek (History) Fulbright Fellowship to participate in the German Studies Seminar "Germany and Jewish Studies Today" (1996)

Contact:
Richard Bodek, Professor
Email: bodekr@cofc.edu
website

Phone: 953-8030
Office: 324 Maybank Hall
Hours: by appt.

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990

Courses:

Berlin in the Golden Twenties

345.001 - Modern
German Cultural and Intellectual History

346.001 - History of the Soviet Union

HIST 241.001 ST: Nazi Germany in History& Pop Culture

HIST 241.01 ST: European Labor and the Left

Courses:
Spring 2009 TBA

Fall 2008:
HIST 102.007
HIST 102.F09/102,FA9
HIST 441.001 Europe's Roaring 20's
Research Seminar

HONS 120.004, 120-D13
Western Civilization

Lowcountry Conference: Central European Intellectual Emigres in the United States in the 1930s

Conveners:
Richard Bodek and Simon Lewis