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Janet Ward is an interdisciplinary scholar of urban and European cultural history, memory studies, and visual culture. A recipient of grants from e.g., the ACLS, DAAD, Getty Research Institute, and NEH, she is the author of Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity, and co-editor of Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe. Her previous publications include the book Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany; the co-edited essay collections German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity, and Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest; as well as over two dozen articles and essays in e.g., History and Technology, New German Critique, and the Journal of Visual Culture. Janet Ward’s current book projects include a study of the air war and spatial planning of World War II, as well as a book on memory sites of the Holocaust. A co-edited volume, “(Trans)Nationalism and the German City,” is also in preparation. She currently serves on the German Studies Association's Executive Council; co-chairs the GSA’s Interdisciplinary Committee; and is a member of the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch program committee for the 2013 conference. Professor Ward received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. |
