Peter Hayes
Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and German, (Ph.D. Yale University)
Office:
Harris 209 or Harris 110 (chair's office)
Phone: 847-491-7446
E-mail: p-hayes@northwestern.edu
Professor Hayes specializes in the history of Germany in the 20th century, particularly the Nazi period. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the prize winners Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era and Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World, and most recently The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (ed. with John K. Roth) and Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik (with Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, and Moshen Zimmermann). He is currently working on an anthology-history of the Holocaust, a study of German big business and the persecution of the Jews, and a manuscript on German elites and National Socialism. A recipient of the Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award and the Northwestern Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, he also held a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence, the University’s highest honor for teaching, in 2007-10. He has held research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he is also a member of the Academic Committee.
Jewish Studies Courses
History 349 History of the Holocaust
History 395 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
History 395 Using Holocaust Testimonies for Research
