Michael Thad Allen
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The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, paperback 2005).
Sections of The Business of Genocide have been reprinted as chapters in
Hitler’s Slave Lords: The Business of Forced Labour in Occupied Europe (Tempus Press, 2004).
Hitler y sus verdugos (Grupo Editorial Tomo, 2007)
with Gabrielle Hecht, ed., Technologies of Power: History, Authority, Knowledge, and Machines. Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke and Agatha Chipley Hughes (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001).
In Press:
“The Atomization of Auschwitz: Is History Really That
Contingent?” in Lynn Rapaport, Jonathan Petropoulos, & John Roth, ed.,
Lessons & Legacies of the Holocaust. Volume IX (to appear 2008)
Click Here for a Draft
Published:
“Realms of Oblivion: Public Memory and the Vienna Auschwitz
Trial of 1972,” Central European History 40 (2007): 1-27.
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“Not Just a Dating Game: Witness Testimony of the Origins of the Holocaust at Auschwitz,” German History 25(2007): 162-91
“Martin Heidegger, West German Industrialists, and the Death of Being or How Technology Caused the Holocaust,” in Dagmar Herzog, ed., Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust, volume VII, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006):
"Nazi Ideology, Management, and Engineering Technology in the SS," in Eric Katz, ed., Death by Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany (New York: Longman, 2005): 88-120.
“Grey Collar Workers: Organization Theory in Holocaust Studies,” in special inaugural issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 11(2005): 27-54.
“The Business of Genocide,” in Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi-Dominated Europe (Washington DC: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004): 9-20. This is a condensed, reprinted excerpt of The Business of Genocide.
“Second Thoughts on ‘Gedachtes Wohnen,’” special discussion forum on Martin Heidegger and the essay “Gedachtes Wohnen,” Philosophy and Geography 7(2004): 255-8.
“A Bureaucratic Holocaust: Toward a New Consensus,” in Wolfgang Seibel and Gerald Feldman, ed., Networks of Persecution (New York, Berghahn books, 2004): 261-70.
“The Business of Genocide,” in Francis Nicosia and Jonathan Huener, Business and Industry in Nazi Germany (Berghahn Books, 2004): 81-103.
“Anfänge der Menschenvernichtung in Auschwitz, Oktober 1941. Eine Erwiderung auf Jan Erik `” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 51(2003): 565-73.
“Stranger than Science Fiction: Edwin Black, IBM, and the Holocaust,” Technology and Culture 43(2002): 150-4.
“Technocrats of Extermination: Engineers, Modern Bureaucracy, and Complicity,” in Ronald Smelser, ed., Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002): 100-122.
“The Devil in the Details: The Gas Chambers of Birkenau, October 1941,” Holocaust & Genocide Studies 16(2002): 189-216.
“Introduction” (with Gabrielle Hecht), in Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht, ed., Technologies of Power: History, Authority, Knowledge, and Machines. Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke and Agatha Chipley Hughes (MIT Press, 2001).
“Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History,” in Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht, ed., Technologies of Power: History, Authority, Knowledge, and Machines. Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke and Agatha Chipley Hughes (MIT Press, 2001).
“Ideology Counts: Controlling the Bodies of Concentration Camp Prisoners,” in Miriam Levin, ed., Cultures of Control (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000): 177-204.
“Oswald Pohl—Chef der SS-Wirtschaftsunternehmen,” in Ronald Smelser, ed., Die SS: Elite unter dem Totenkpf (München: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2000): 394-407.
“A European History of Technology,” Technology and Culture 40(1999): 599-606
“Flexible Production at Concentration Camp Ravensbrück,” Past &Present 165(1999):182-217.
"The Banality of Evil Reconsidered: SS Mid-Level Managers of Extermination through Work," Central European History 30(1997): 253-94.
"The Homogeneity of Engineering Communities," Bios : Zeitschrift fur Biographieforschung und Oral History , Sonderheft Biographie und Technikgeschichte (1996, Heft 2): 342-59.
"The
Puzzle of Nazi Modernism: Modern Technology and Ideological Consensus in an SS
Factory at Auschwitz," Technology and Culture 37(1996):
527-571.
• The Society for the History of Technology awarded this article the Samuel
Elezear and Rose Tartakov Levinson Prize for the best first essay in the
history of technology.
“Rüstungswirtschaft,” comment on panel in the special conference Rüstungswirtschaft, Kriegswirtschaft und Zwangsarbeit im 'Dritten Reich,' March 16th, 2007, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany.
"Die Rolle der 'Vernichtungsbuerokraten' und ihre Straffreiheit nach 1945 am Beispiel des Wiener Auschwitz-Prozesses 1972," paper presented April 3rd, 2007 at the Dokumentationsarchiv oesterreichischer Widerstand, Vienna, Austria.
“Seeing Schindler’s List from the Victim’s Perspective,” presented at Connecticut College, Novermber 28th, 2006, New London, Connecticut.
“Not Just a ‘Dating Game’: Survivor Testimony of Slave Laborers on the Origins of the Holocaust at Auschwitz,” paper delivered at the Lessons & Legacies of the Holocaust, IX biannual conference held at Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College, November 3rd, 2006, Claremont, California.
“The Holocaust as a Case Study for Ethics in Engineering and Science,” presented at SUNY Stony Brook, October 18th, 2006, Long Island, New York.
“The Holocaust,” teacher training session led at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 14 June 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Not Just a Dating Game: The Origins of the Final Solution at Auschwitz,” paper presented at Connecticut College, November 22nd, 2005, New London, Connecticut.
“Seeing Like a Drunken State: Totalitarian Technology and Political Religion,” paper presented at Colby College, November 18th, 2005, Waterville, Maine
Roundtable Discussion, “Contemporary Interest in the Holocaust,” Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, April 15th, 2005.
“The Holocaust Metropolis: Auschwitz and the Political Religion of National Socialism,” Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, April 14th, 2005.
“Seeing Like a Drunken State: Slavery and Political Religion,” paper presented at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, October 22nd, 2004.
“It’s not the Economy Stupid: The Business of Genocide,” paper given at the Millersville Conference on the Holocaust, Millersville, Pennsylvania, March 28, 2004.
“The Political Religion of Science and Technology in the Nazi Genocide,” paper presented at the special seminar on the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb. 23rd, 2004.
“A New History of the Holocaust at Auschwitz” and special graduate seminar on “Modernity, Technology, and the Holocaust,” University of Washington, Center for West European Studies, Seattle, Washington, November 12 and 13, 2003.
with Daniel Napolitano, “Ethical Implications of Decision Making by Industrial Leaders under the Third Reich and its Applications to Business Ethicists,” special one-day seminar for Northrop-Grumann ethicists, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, August 19th, 2003.
"Martin Heidegger, West German Industrialists and the Death of Being or How Technology Caused the Holocaust," Conference: Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust, Minneapolis-St. Paul, November 2, 2002.
“The Business of Genocide,” special symposium on Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi-Dominated Europe, 1933 to 1945, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, October 24, 2002.
(with Evelyn Range), "Death is a Master from Austria: The Vienna Trial of the Construction Engineers of Auschwitz in 1972," German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, October 5, 2002.
“The Business of Genocide,” Bi-Annual Holocaust Symposium, University of Vermont, “Business and Industry under the Nazi Regime,” Burlington, Vermont, April 10, 2002.
“The Fourth Estate of Science and Technology,” paper delivered at the annual Conference of the Society for the History of Technology, San Jose, California, October 7th, 2001.
“Modernity, the Holocaust and Machines without History,” paper delivered at the Naval Observatory, Washington DC, December 6th, 2001.
“Hannah Arendt’s Banal Bureaucrat in the ‘American Century,’” Keynote Address at special conference, Eichmann in Jerusalem, De Paul University, Chicago, May 10th, 2001.
“Modernity, the Holocaust and Machines without History,” Keynote Address delivered at the Holocaust Memorial Week 2001, Oregon State University, Corvallis, April 16th, 2001.
“Modernity, the Holocaust and Machines without History,” paper delivered at the special seminar for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 2nd, 2001.
“Organizational Differentiation and Vertical Integration in the SS-Imperium,” at international conference, “Networks of Persecution: The Holocaust as Division of Labor-Based Crime,” University of Konstaz, Germany, September 25, 2000.
“Strukturgeschichte, Modernisierungstheorie, und der Mord an den europäsichen Juden,” May 17, 2000, Historisches Seminar, TU-Darmstädt.
“Social Function, Ideology, and Bureaucracy: A Comment on the Goldhagen Controversy,” presented at the annual Lessons & Legacies of the Holocaust conference, Boca Raton, Florida, Nov. 6th, 1998.
“How Modern Were the Nazis?” presented at George Washington University faculty colloquium, Oct. 28th, 1998, Washington D.C.
“Counting the Victims: How Ideology Counts,” presented as part of the public lecture series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oct. 22nd, 1998, Washington D.C.
“Modernity and the Holocaust: The Obscure History of Machines,” workshop presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Sept. 16th, 1998, Washington D.C.
"Communitarian Ideology of Women's Work under National Socialism," presented at SCHLITS Special Seminar Gender and Industry, March 15th, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.
"The Hidden Face of Technology in Modernization Theory and National Socialism," presented at the Hagley Museum, special conference Modernism and Technology, March 7th, 1997, Wilmington, Deleware.
"Constructing the Third Reich: Engineers, Modern Bureaucracy and Complicity," presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, October 13th, 1996 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
"'Because That Was Most Natural': Women's Work and Flexible Production at the Concentration Camp Ravensbrück," presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Technology, August 4th, 1996, Imperial College, London, Great Britain.
“‘Sweet Machines’ for a New Order: Nationalist Technologies and Nazi Industry on the Model of the SS Business Administration Head Office,” presented Oct. 20th, 1995 in Charlottesville, VA at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology.
“‘Vernichtung durch Bauen.’ Bauingenieure in der SS Wirtschaftsverwaltung,” paper presented June 7th, 1995 at Doktorandenkolloquium of Dr. Hans Mommsen, Ruhr Universität-Bochum.
"Gerhard Maurer und das Häftilingseinsatzamt der SS: die verwalterische Umsetzung von 'Vernichtung durch Arbeit,'" presented on Dec. 2, 1994 at "Täter und Konzentrationslager" (Perpetrators and Concentration Camps) conference at the Forschungsstelle für die Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus in Hamburg, Germany.
"Vorgetäuschte Modernisierung und modernes Mismanagement im Arbeitseinsatz der SS-Konzentrationslager," delivered May 29th, 1994 at the Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Arbeitsbereich Wirtschaft- und Sozialgeschichte, Freie Universität-Berlin, Germany.
"The Golleschauer Portland Cement Factory," presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, October 15th, 1993 in Washington DC.
"Innocence and Historicism in Modernization Theory: SS-Engineers and Administrators in the Dock," delivered at the Royal Technical University (Kungl Tekniska Högskolan), Stockholm, Sweden, March 19th March, 1993.
National Science Foundation, Scholars Award 14 months of funding over two years in addition to travel funds for research, starting August 15th, 2004.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Charles H. Revson Fellowship, to pursue research and writing in residence, to being August, 2005-January, 2006 (declined in favor of NSF award).
National Science Foundation, Small Grant for Teaching and Research, “Science, Technology, and European Modernity,” $300,000 in program funding, graduate student, and post-doctoral support, awarded February, 2003 (declined).
Undergraduate Research Grant 2001, Georgia Tech.
Humboldt Fellow, 1999-2000, guest of the Technische Universität-München and the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, visiting fellows award, September 1-October 31, 1998. Grant to spend two months in residence at the USHMM doing research and writing. Included a presentation in the USHMM’s monthly public lecture series.
Holocaust Educational Foundation, curriculum development award, October 1, 1997. Grant to develop library collection and to purchase pedagogical materials for the addition of a new course, The History of the Holocaust, to the Georgia Tech curriculum.
Holocaust Educational Foundation, Summer Fellows Program, July 6th-19th, 1997, Evanston, IL. Grant covered travel, room, and board for a two week seminar on teaching development at Northwestern University.
Hagely Museum Guest Speaker Fellowship, March 7th, 1997. Award to cover honorarium and guest visit to special conference, Modernism and Technology.
Social Science Research Council, Berlin Program for Advanced Studies Research Fellowship: October 1994-September 1995.
Smithsonian Institute Research Fellowship: Awarded 1994 (declined in favor of SSRC grant).
Fulbright Fellowship to Germany: July 1993-September 1994.
Deutsches Museum, Forschungsstipendien (Research Fellowship): January 1994-February 1994.
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Summer Travel Grant: (German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD) March 1993-July 1994.
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Goethe Institute "Learn German in Germany" Fellowship: June 1991-July 1991.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship: March 1990-August 1993.
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Fellowship: Sept. 1989-May 1990.
2006-present, Program Committee, Lessons & Legacies of the Holocaust, program committee for biannual conference in Holocaust studies sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation.
2002-present, Editorial Board, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of History and Culture
2005-present, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of
History, Technology, & Society, Georgia Tech.
• Formed special
sub-committee to expand curriculum and prepare interdisciplinary majors
incorporating studies of globalization and developed global history course.
• Representative to Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Program Committee, develops opportunities to include
undergraduates in faculty research.
1996-2003, Graduate Program Committee, Department of History, Technology, & Society, Georgia Tech.
1999-2001, Program Committee (Chair 2000), Society for the History of Technology.
1996-1999, Levinson Prize Committee, Society for the History of Technology
2003, awarded prize for best book of 2002-2003 by the German Studies Association-German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for The Business of Genocide.
2003, voted “Professor of the Year” by graduate students in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
2002, Charles Smith Award for the best book in European History in 2001-2002 by the Southern Historical Association for The Business of Genocide
1995, Samuel Elezear and Rose Tartakov Levinson Prize for the best first essay in the history of technology for “The Puzzle of Nazi Modernism.”