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Faculty
| Campbell Karlsgodt, Elizabeth |
Escobedo, Elizabeth |
Ford Faggan, Yasmaine |
Gibbs, Michael |
| Goodfriend, Joyce |
Helstosky, Carol |
Ioris, Rafael |
Philpott, William |
| Rockwell, Nicholas |
Romero, II, Tom I. |
Schulten, Susan |
Scarcion, Jonathan |
| Tague, Ingrid |
Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt
Focus:
France; modern Europe; culture, politics, and society
Background:
Ph.D., New York University, 2002
Interests:
I teach courses in modern European and French history, including the French Revolution,
Europe during the World Wars, nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, and seminars
on Nazi art looting and the history and memory of World War II.>
In my courses and my research, I am particularly interested in cultural and political
trends during times of crisis, and how narratives of those crises--crafted by government
officials, scholars, and/or intellectuals--develop in the aftermath. My book manuscript,
National Treasures, explores French cultural policy during the Nazi occupation of World War II. I examine
how the French defined their cultural heritage and implemented new policies to protect
museum collections, antiquities and historic sites during the war. I also raise questions
that are relevant outside of France and into our own times: how do notions of cultural
heritage and national identity reinforce each other? At what point does the noble
work of cultural preservation harm individuals' interests?
My next book project focuses on the French museum administration during the postwar
reconstruction period, and its management of art looted by the Nazis from Jewish collectors
in France. Around two thousand pieces recovered from Germany were not claimed by
victims or their heirs, and the French museum agency began a complicated guardianship
that continues today.
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