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Dr. Stephen Feinstein
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Director
University of Minnesota
102 Nolte Hall West
315 Pillsbury Drive
Minneapolis, MN. 55455
Phone: 612-626-2235
Fax: 612-626-9169
Email: feins001@tc.umn.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Stephen Feinstein is Emeritus Professor of History at the University
of Wisconsin-River Falls where he taught history and art history
beginning in l969. Dr. Feinstein received his BA from Villanova
University and his Ph.d from New York University in Russian History. He
also taught courses on Russian Art and Architecture and well as lectures
on West European art. He was the guest curator for the 5,000 square foot
exhibition, "Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust," at
the Minnesota Museum of American Art. The show was on tour through the
year 2002 at sixteen other museum sites across the United States. In 1999,
he was curator of a 7,000 square foot exhibition at the University of
Minnesota's Nash Gallery, "Absence/Presence: The Artistic Memory of the
Holocaust and Genocide."
Feinstein has been a frequent lecturer at Universities around
the USA and in Europe about artistic responses to the Holocaust and
problems of representation. He was an invited scholar to The Stockholm
International Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, held at the end of January
2000 and the European Union Conference on Holocaust Education through the
Arts in October, 2002. Feinstein is also a curatorial consultant for the
Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida and a member of the
Board of Directors of the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO). He
was also the Ida B. King Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies,
Richard Stockton University of New Jersey. An edited book, "Absence/Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust" was published by Syracuse University Press in September 2005 and is available at bookstores or from Amazon.com.
Since September, 1997, Feinstein served as Director for the Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.. The
purpose of the center is to provide a State-wide resource for teaching
about the Holocaust/Shoah and other forms of genocide for universities,
pre-college schools, and the general public.
Center web site: http:www.chgs.umn.edu/
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Course Syllabus
History of the Holocaust
Problems in Historiography and Representation of the Holocaust
Topics in Jewish Studies: Workshop on the Holocaust and Contemporary Genocide
German and European Anti-Semitism
Holocaust: Historiography and Narratives
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