Professor Remy specializes in modern German history. His research interests include the history of Nazi Germany, German academic culture, politics and culture in postwar West Germany, and the German-Jewish experience. He is currently working on a book on German-Jewish refugees in the U.S. Army in World War II. In the fall of 2006 portions of his video interviews with emigre veterans were included in the exhibit "Heimat und Exil" ["Home and Exile"] at the Juedisches Museum in Berlin. He teaches courses on modern German and European history, Nazi Germany, World Wars I and II, and terror and terrorism in modern Europe. He received his MA and Ph.D. at Ohio University, and has taught at Brooklyn College since 2002. In the spring of 2005, Professor Remy was awarded a Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation (http://www.whitingfoundation.org) fellowship in recognition of his teaching. In the 2007-2008 academic year he served as the Deputy Director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Selected publications:
"Deutsch-Jüdische Flüchtlinge im dienst der U.S. Armee,” in Cilly Kugelmann & Jürgen Reicher, eds., Heimat und Exil (Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006)
“Hans Habe, Stefan Heym, and Guy Stern as ‘citizen soldiers’ and cultural mediators,” in Bernhard Fischer & Helen Feherhavy, eds., Cultural Politics – Political Culture / Kulturpolitik – Politische Kultur (German Life and Civilization, vol. 47, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007))
The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University (Harvard University Press, 2002) (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/REMHEI.html)
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