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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Other Areas of History,Modern and Contemporary History |
| Keywords | Umweltgeschichte, post-1945 central and east-central europe, transnational cultural history, memory and nostalgia, post-1945 urban planning and reconstruction |
| Honours and awards | 2023: Winner, Alice Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, for my book "Three Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders" 2021: Honorable Mention, Barclay Book Prize, German Studies Association for my book "Bowling for Communism" |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Washington |
| Institution | American University |
| Institute | Department of History |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Christian Lübke | Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
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| Prof. Dr. Arnold Bartetzky | Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2014 |
Programme(s)
| 2014 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2021 | Andrew Demshuk: "Architecture beyond Ideology: The Politics of Forgotten Landmarks in Communist East Germany". In: Journal of Urban History, 2021, |
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| 2021 | Andrew Demshuk: Bach's Grave as Communist Legacy. In: Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2021, |
| 2021 | Andrew Demshuk: Three Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 |
| 2020 | Andrew Demshuk: Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany. Cornell University Press, 2020 |
| 2017 | Andrew Demshuk: Demolition on Karl Marx Square - Cultural Barbarism and the People´s State in 1968. Oxford University Press, 2017 |
| 2017 | Andrew Demshuk: Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism in the People's State in 1968. Oxford University Press, 2017 |
| 2012 | Andrew Demshuk: The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970. Cambridge University Press, 2012 |