On January 12, Professor Sneeringer gave the annual Helen Witmer lecture at Hunter College High School in Manhattan. She spoke to some 200 tenth and eleventh graders about her recent book on the early history of rock ’n’ roll in Germany. She also spoke with students and faculty afterward about the joys of doing history and studying abroad.

Sneeringer has also given talks in recent months on her book at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Regensburg. During her sabbatical, she’s been researching the history of a notorious Hamburg nightclub from the Weimar Republic through Nazism and its aftermath. She’s also writing a short guide on the history of West Germany for Bloomsbury Academic Press.”