Thomas Kühne

Kühne is Strassler Family Professor in Holocaust History at Clark University. He teaches courses on European history, the Holocaust, and the history of racism, gender, and body politics. Before he came to the United States in 2003, he taught at the Universities of Constance, Tübingen and Weingarten in Germany. He specializes in the relationships between war, genocide, and political culture in modern Europe. His most recent book, entitled Kameradschaft (2006), argues that comradeship combined male bonding through criminal means with in-group “humanity” and facilitated a “shame culture” that laid the moral ground of genocidal warfare during World War II. His earlier seven books include an edited volume on masculinities in modernGermany (1996) and a monograph on electoral culture and suffrage reform in Prussia from 1867–1914 (1994).