Nils Roemer

Ph.D. - History
Center for Israel & Jewish Studies,Columbia University - 2000

M.S. - History: Modern German History
University of Hamburg - 1993

“East, West, and a Gendering of Jewish Tradition during the First World War,” 'A Man in the Street, a Jew at Home:' New Views on the Culture and Politics of East Central and East European Jewry(Wayne State University Press, 2023). 2023 - Publication

“Hermann Levin Goldschmidt and the Futurology of an Uncertain Future,” Philosophy Today 67:3 (2023) 2023 - Publication

“Stanley Marcus: Fashioning a City,” Paul Lerner, Anne Schenderlein and Uwe Spiekerman, ed. Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe and North America(Palgrave Macmillian, 2022), 111-129. 2022 - Publication

“Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck: ". Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity, ed. Joshua Levinson and Orit Bashkin, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, 256-268. 2021 - Publication

“Wissenschaft des Judentums, Postmodernism, and Digital Humanities 2.0,” Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, and Guy Miron, ed. Jewish Historiography between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums (2019), 91-104. 2019 - Publication

“Berlin, Intersecting Traumas,” Atheneum 3 (2020), 39-51.  2017 - Publications

“On Cheyette: Against Supersessionist Thinking: Old and New, Jews and Postcolonialism, the Ghetto and Diaspora” Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5: 1 (2017): 123-128 2017 - Publication

“Space and Memory in German Jewish History,” Simone Lässig and Miram Rürup, ed. Space and Spacelessness in Modern German-Jewish History (Berghan, 2017) 2017 - Publication

Full Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2011–Present]

Associate Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2006–2011]

Senior Lecturer
University of Southampton, Southampton, England [2006–2006]

Lecturer
University of Southampton, Southampton, England [2000–2006]

Adjunct Professor
Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich, Germany [2000–2000]

The Presence of Absence: Jewish Cultural Heritage and the Production of Worms as a Tourist Destination in the Post-War Period

2002–2002 Paper presented at the conference German American Encounters After World War II and the Holocaust, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, September 2002.

Jewish Provinciality and Cultural Heritage: The Production of Worms as a Destination in Modern Jewish History

2002–2002 Paper presented at the conference Urban Diaspora: The City in Jewish History, Princeton University, April 2002.

Inventing American and Anglo-Jewish Diasporas around the Turn of the Century

2002–2002 Paper presented at the conference Re-Writing the Past, 71st Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, London, England, July 2002.

Historisches Erbe und soziales Ged?chtnis: Deutsch-Jdische Geschichtswissenschaft und die Bildung der Vergangenheit im 19. Jahrhundert

2001–2001 Paper presented at the conference Memoria. Die Geschichte der Juden aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher Disziplinen und Medien. Conference of the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden, Aachen, Germany, November 2001.

Paradoxes of Historical Consciousness C German-Jewish Transformation from Wissenschaft into Faith

2003–2003 Paper presented at the conference Secondary Conversion C Transforming Religious and Ethnic Emblematics of Judaism and Jewishness, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, February 2003.

Professional recognitions and honors (study, teaching, research, service)

• Arts and Humanities Research Board, Research Grant, England, 2006
• Arts and Humanities Research Board Matching Leave, England, 2003-2004
• Research Grants, University of Southampton, England, 2000-2003
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Deutsche-Forschungs-Gesellschaft, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich, Germany, May-Sept. 2000
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1999-2000
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY, 1999-2000
• Doctoral Scholarship, Jewish Memorial Foundation, New York, NY, 1998-2000
• Doctoral Scholarship, Stiftung Dialogik – Mary and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt-Bollag Fellowship, Zurich, Switzerland, 1998-1999
• David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship, Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY, 1998
• Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1995-1998
• Stipend for Yiddish course, YIVO, New York, NY, 1995
• Publishing Grant, Springer Foundation, Berlin, Germany, 1994
• Stipend for intensive Hebrew course in Israel, Hansische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany, 1991

Professional memberships

• Board Member of the Leo Baeck Institute (London, England), 2003-Present
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2004-Present
• American Association for Jewish Studies, 1996-Present
• Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden , 2002-Present
• European Association for Jewish Studies, 1995-2006
• British Association of Jewish Studies, 2000-2006

Service - reviewing, refereeing and administrative work with professional societies and organizations (e.g. editorship, associate editorship, officer, etc.); departmental, college, university committees; community service, etc.

AT UT Dallas

• Member of Graduate Studies Task Force (2006-2007)
• Member of Faculty Personnel Review Committee (Fall 2006)
• Member of Senate (2007-2008)
• Member of search committee for an Assistant Professor of Art History (Spring 2008)
• Member of search committee for an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History (Spring 2008)
• Member of Promotion Review Committee (2008)
• Member of Effective Teaching Committee (2007-)
• Member of Effective Teaching Committee (2007-)
• Member of Personal Review Committee (2008-2009)
• Member of Executive Committee (2008-present)
• Member of mid-Probationary Review Committees (2009-2010)
• Chair of mid-Probationary Review Committees (2009-2010)

External Reviewer of Publications, 2000-

• History, Jewish History and Culture, Modern Jewish Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review, Shofar, Ashgate, Cambridge University Press, Michigan University Press, Harvard University Press, and the publications of the Leo Baeck Institute

At University of Southampton

• External examiner of Critical Religious Studies, at Sussex University (2004-2006)
• Modern European Jewish History, Culture and Thought at Sussex University (2004-2006)
• External examiner of Modern Jewish Studies at Oxford University

New Director Named for Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies

Dr. Nils Roemer has been appointed as director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Roemer, the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies, succeeds Dr. Abby Kratz, who recently was appointed to lead the University’s new Office of Institutional Scholarship Administration.

“It has been a tremendous privilege to be a part of the center since arriving at UT Dallas almost 10 years ago,” Roemer said. “I am thrilled to assume the role as director and help maintain its zenith trajectory as a nationally and internationally recognized Center of Holocaust Studies.

Holocaust Experts to Share Their Findings at Scholars' Conference

The UT Dallas Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies will welcome some of the world’s foremost Holocaust scholars, theologians and survivors for the 48th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches on March 3-5.
The collection of experts will share their findings in hopes that the lessons of the Holocaust will remain relevant. Dr. Nils Roemer, director of the Ackerman Center, said the conference focuses on being interfaith, interdisciplinary and international.

Arts and Humanities Adds Interim Dean, New Experts in History, Writing

The School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas has three new tenure-track faculty members who bring a wide range of expertise — in gender, race and law enforcement studies, poetry and creative writing, and art history.

“I am excited about our new hires, who already are very accomplished. They bring fresh perspectives in their respective fields and already have expressed an interest in collaborating across disciplines,” said Dr. Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies.

New Hires Help Arts and Humanities Sharpen, Showcase Students’ Talents

Teaching visual and performing arts in a virtual way is challenging at best, but despite the obstacles presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the School of Arts and Humanities (A&H) at The University of Texas at Dallas is offering a full range of classes, including music, art, drama and dance courses.

“I have more than 30 faculty members who are delivering courses with a face-to-face component,” said Dr. Nils Roemer, interim dean of A&H and director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies. “We are doing that because it’s the most effective way to teach drawing, theater, dance and many of the activities involved with the visual and performing arts. You have to appreciate the huge effort our faculty are putting forth this semester.”

While in-person concerts and events will not be held this semester, Roemer pointed to creative ways that professors are sharing their students’ talents. For example, Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be recorded at various campus locations — with appropriate social distancing and safety precautions — and will be shown as a movie online beginning in November.

New Endowed Chair Puts Ackerman Center in Elite Seat for Holocaust Research Programs - Sep. 18, 2020

A major gift to the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas will create its fifth endowed chair, propelling the center to the top tier of Holocaust research programs in the country.