FACULTY & STAFF
Dr. Teresa Walch
Contact Information
Email: tmwalch@uncg.edu
Office: 2117 MHRA
Office Phone: 336-334-5992
Education
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2018
M.A., University of California, San Diego, 2015
B.A., College of Saint Benedict, 2010
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2020–
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2019–2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018–2019
Research Interests
- modern Europe
- modern Germany
- the Holocaust
- urban history
- space and place
- global history
Current Project
My current research examines the politics of space and place in modern Germany. My present book manuscript, Degenerate Spaces: The Coordination of Space in Nazi Germany, investigates the relationship between Nazi ideology and spatial practices between 1933-1945. I argue that Nazism itself should be understood as a spatial project to make Germany judenrein and that antisemitic notions of a Germany infected by Jews immediately and forcefully inspired efforts to "cleanse" spaces of Jews and Jewish influences, instigating property confiscations and vandalization, urban renewal projects, and segregation policies.
Courses Taught
- HIS 223: European Revolutions, 1789-1989
- HIS 392: The Holocaust: History & Meaning
- HIS 411B: Seminar in Historical Research and Writing
- HIS 510: Historiography
- HIS 709: Introductory Research Seminar
Selected Publications
- Räume der deutschen Geschichte, ed. Teresa Walch, Sagi Schaefer, and Galili Shahar, Tel
Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, Vol. 49 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2022).
- "Editorial: Space & Place in Modern Germany," in ibid., 7-19.
- "Orchestrating Consent: Public Space and the Nazi Consolidation of Power," in ibid., 115-143.
- "With an Iron Broom: Cleansing Berlin's Bülowplatz of 'Judeo-Bolshevism,' 1933–1936," German History 40, no. 1 (2022).
- "Kampf um Raum: The Raumwirtschaft & Spatial Hierarchies in the Theresienstadt Ghetto," Filmfragmente und Zeitzeugenberichte: Mythos und Soziologie des Ghettos und Durchgangslagers Theresienstadt, ed. Hans-Georg Soeffner, Marija Stanisavljevic, and Lara Pellner (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2021).
- "Just West of East: The Paradoxical Place of the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Policy and Perception," Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History 14, no. 2 (December 2020): 243-264
- Other publications listed on Vitae.
Selected Awards and Honors
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro New Faculty Research Grant, 2021-22
- Central European History Society Travel and Research Grant, 2021
- University of California President's Dissertation year Fellowship, 2017-18
- USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies, 2017
- Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Germany, 2015–16
- Other awards listed on Vitae.
Links of Interest
- “Ordinary Places: Reflections on Holocaust Topographies,” Environmental History Now (August 2020).
- Podcast episode: "Berlin: Little Neighborhood, Big Politics," 90 Second Narratives (June 2020).
- "(Hidden) In Plain Sight: The Global Compromise on Queer Life in the Urban Public Sphere," Activist History Review (June 2019).
- Affiliated scholar page at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, USC Shoah Foundation.
Curriculum Vitae
