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Nancy Reagin

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Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

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  • @New York City
    41 Park Row Room 511E

Biography


Nancy Reagin (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is a professor of European history and gender studies at Pace University. She's published three books and many articles in German gender history, with a focus on women's history, national identities, and consumer cultures. Her current project focuses on the emergence of fan communities in twentieth century Europe and the United States, and she has edited a series of historical readers companions for fantasy and science fiction literature. She chaired the New York campus Faculty Council between 2013-2017, served as interim Academic Associate Provost and as chair of the Dept. of Women's and Gender Studies in the past, and has chaired far too many committees.

Education


PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1990

MA, Johns Hopkins University, 1985

BA, University of California at Berkeley, 1983

Awards and Honors


Pace University, May 2015 - LGBTQ Educator of the Year Award
Pace University, May 2014 - Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence
Pace University , 2011 - Undergraduate Research Initiative Award
Dyson College, 2010 - Distinguished Faculty Research Award
Pace Student Government Association, September 2001 - Special Service Award

Publications


Reagin, N. (2021). Re-Living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900. Iowa City, Iowa, USA: University of Iowa Press.

Reagin, N. (2016, December). “Socialist Indians and Capitalist Cowboys: the Uses of Westerns in Both Germanies,”. Lori Maguire (Eds.), The Cold War and Entertainment Television. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Reagin, N. (2016). "Tischkultur: Cooking, Food Choices, and Diet in Nazi Germany," in Lisa Pine (ed.),. Life and Times in Nazi Germany. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic Press. , pages 21-48.

Reagin, N. (2016, May). "Dances with Worlds: Karl May, 'Indian' Hobbyists, and German Fans of the American West Since 1912". Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. Vol 13 (Issue 1) , pages 553-583. http://www.participations.org/Volume%2013/Issue%201/S3/6.pdf

Reagin, N. (2015, December). "Die Vergangenheit ist eine weit, weit entfernte Galaxie: Die historisch-politische Konstruktion der Star Wars-Reihe". Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte. Vol 2015 (Issue 12) http://www.frankfurter-hefte.de/upload/Archiv/2015/Heft_12/PDF/2015-12_reagin.pdf

Reagin, N. (2011). "Was Voldemort a Nazi? Death Eater Ideology and National Socialism" in Nancy Reagin (ed.). Harry Potter and History. New York: Wiley & Sons. , pages 127-152.

Reagin, N. (2011). Transformative Works and Cultures 6 (2011), Special Historical Issue : Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

Reagin, N. & Rubenstein, A. (2011, March). “'I'm Buffy and You're History': Putting History Back into Fan Studies,”. Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol 6 http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/272

Reagin, N. (2008). Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Reagin, N., Bridenthal, R. & O'Donnell, K. (2005). The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Reagin, N. (2005). “German brigadoon? Domesticity and Metropolitan Perceptions of Auslandsdeutschen in Southwest Africa and Eastern Europe” in Renate Bridenthal, Krista O'Donnell, and Nancy Reagin (eds.). The Heimat Abroad: the Boundaries of Germanness. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: .

Reagin, N. (2004). "Recent Work on German National Identity: Regional? Imperial? Gendered? Imaginary?". Central European History. Vol 37 (Issue June 2004) , pages 245-271.

Reagin, N. (2001, May). "Marktordnung and Autarkic Housekeeping: Private Households Under the Nazi Four Year Plan". German History. Vol 19 , pages 162-184.

Reagin, N. (2001, March). "The Imagined Hausfrau: National Identity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in Imperial Germany". Journal of Modern History. Vol 73 (Issue March, 2001) , pages 54-86.

Reagin, N. (1995). A German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880–1933. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Grants, Sponsored Research and Contracts


Senior Research Fellowship
Reagin, N. 2002 - 2003. National Endowment for the Humanities , Federal . Funded.

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