Mary Louise Roberts, “Race and Sexual Violence in the European Theater of War, 1944-1945”

“Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality“ 9 June 2019 Panel V: Nationalism, Violence, Total War Mary Louise Roberts, “Race and Sexual Violence in the European Theater of War, 1944-1945” Mary Louise Roberts is the WARF Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author, most recently, of D-Day Through French Eyes (2014). What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II (2013), won the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize and the French Historical Studies’s Gilbert Chinard Prize. The book has appeared in translation in French, Chinese, Japanese and Czech, and forms the basis of a French documentary film “Les Femmes de la libération” produced by Maha Productions, Paris. Roberts has been the recipient of many fellowships, grants and awards, including a a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council. In the past two years, her work has appeared in Gender and History and Journal of the History of Sexuality. For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination () by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Sponsored by: George L. Mosse Program in History Fritz Thyssen Stiftung The Mosse Foundation Deutsches Historisches Museum Jüdisches Museum Berlin University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung Technische Universität Berlin Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Leo Baeck Institute London Leo Baeck Institute New York Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität Schwules Museum Berlin