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

• Assistant Professor
• Sturm Hall 375><br/>
• 303-871-2947
• elizabeth.karlsgodt@du.edu

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.