Mark B. Cole

Ph.D. Candidate in European History
M.A. in European History, University of Akron, 2004
B.A. in German, University of Toledo, 2001

E-mail:markcole@ufl.edu

Web page: http://plaza.ufl.edu/markcole/

Field: Modern German History, Nazism, the Holocaust

Minor Field(s): Colonial Africa, Political Science

Research Interests
“Feeding the Volk: Food, Culture, and Politics of Nazi Consumption”

Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey Giles

Grants and Awards
2007 German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD)

2007 Fulbright Research Fellowship (declined)

2007 Center for European Studies Summer Travel Grant

2006 Samuel Proctor Teaching Award, U. of Florida

2005 Fellow, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University

2003 William and Dora Martin Scholarship, University of Akron

2003 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award nomination, University of Akron

2002 Dorothy G. Martin Scholarship, University of Akron

Publications
“Guiding the Hand of Holocaust Perpetrators: Ideology or Empowerment?” M.A. Paper, University of Akron, 2004.

ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS
“Food Safety” and “Mad Cow Disease” in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

BOOK REVIEWS
Dennis Showalter, Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berkley Caliber, 2005) for H-German, January, 2007. [url]

Ian Patterson, Guernica and Total War (Harvard University Press, 2007) for H-German (forthcoming)

Courses Taught
Lecturer for:
History of Western Civilization: Middle Ages to the 18th Century
History of Europe: 1789 to the Present
Hitler’s Germany

TA for:
Europe: 1789 -1914
Europe: 1914-Present
The Holocaust
U.S. History to 1877
U.S. History Since 1877