Modern Germany, pop culture

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5350
Fax: 718-997-5359
julia.sneeringer@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu

Julia Sneeringer is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in German from Temple University. A historian of 20th century Germany, she also offers courses on modern Europe, including Fascism and Nazism, Europe Since 1945, politics and culture in Weimar Germany, the history of youth, and the history of women and gender in modern Europe. She is the author of Winning Women’s Votes: Politics and Propaganda in Weimar Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). More recently, she has published numerous articles on tourism in Hamburg’s red-light district, Beatlemania in West and East Germany, and youth culture in 1960s Hamburg. Her book A Social History of Early Rock’n’Roll in Germany: Hamburg From Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic Press.