Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley
Modern Germany and Imperialism.
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Timothy S. Brown studies radical politics in 20th Century Germany and the world, with a focus on transnational cultural history after 1945. His manuscript in progress is entitled 1968: West Germany in the World. Professor Brown has recently published essays on such diverse topics as the relationship of German Communism to the nation, right-wing extremist youth subcultures in England and Germany, and hip hop culture in Germany. Two of his essays are forthcoming in edited volumes dealing with the international protest movements of the 1960s. The first, "'The Germans Meet the Underground': The Politics of Pop in the Essener Songtage of 1968," will appear in Beate Kutsche ed., 1968: Music and Political Protest, (Köln and Weimar: Böhlau, 2007); the second, "1968 in the German Democratic Republic," is forthcoming in Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth eds., 1968 in Europe: A Handbook on National Perspectives and Transnational Dimensions of 1960/70s Protest Movements (Berghahn, 2007). Other work in progress includes a comparative essay on protest in East and West Germany, an article on political rock music in Cold War Berlin, and a conference paper on "Alternative Publishing and Gegenöffentlichkeit in West Germany 1968-1977." Professor Brown is a member of an international research colloquium-the
Interdisciplinary Research Forum Protest Movements (IFK) at the Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg-as well as a member of the German History Workshop, an informal cooperative of historians of Germany working in Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Brown is also a participant in the ongoing Marie Curie Workshop Series on international protest movements under the auspices of the European Union. The most recent of these meetings, "Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest," took place in Zurich, Switzerland in March 2007. Professor Brown presented a paper there entitled "Popular Music/Popular Politics: Some Thoughts on the Role of Rock in the West German '1968.'"