Peter Hayes
Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and German, (Ph.D. Yale University)
Office:
Harris 104A
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 seven books, including From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (2004) and a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation in the Nazi era. He is currently working on two other books: Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and the Holocaust and The Failure of a Generation: German Elites and National Socialism. In addition, Hayes is co-editing (with John K. Roth) The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies and serving as the sole American member of the Independent Historians’ Commission appointed by the German Foreign Minister in 2006 to investigate the history of the German diplomatic service during the Nazi regime and in its aftermath. A recipient of the WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award and the Northwestern Alumni Association's Excellence in Education Award, he has been named Charles Deering McCormick professor of Teaching Excellence for 2007-2010. He has also held fellowships from the DAAD, the ACLS, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a member of the Academic Board of the German Society for Business History and of the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Hayes has been named the Director of the Silberman Summer Seminar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for 2009.
Jewish Studies Courses
History 349 History of the Holocaust
History 395 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
