Faculty
Jonathan Zatlin
Assistant Professor of History

Jonathan Zatlin received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of California at Berkeley in the field of Modern European History. His dissertation, "The Currency of Socialism: Money in the GDR and German Unification," explores the connection between culture and economics to explain the collapse of East Germany in 1989. In 2001/2002, Professor Zatlin is teaching courses on European Socialism (21H.437), Writing the History of Modern Europe (21H.315) with Professor Anne McCants, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (21H.447), and Revolutionary Europe. He has published articles in German History, German Politics and Society, and Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft. He has an essay entitled "Shady Deals and Black Marketeers: Race and the Shadow Economy in the GDR, 1980-1989" in David F. Crew (ed.), Consuming Germany in the Cold War: Consumption and National Identity in East and West Germany, 1949-1989 (Berg, forthcoming).

Prof. Zatlin was awarded the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize in 2001, which is awarded each year by the German Historical Institute to the two best doctoral dissertations submitted in German history, German-American relations, or the history of Germans in North America.