Born
and raised in West Germany Maria Hoehn has been living in the United
States since 1983. In 1991, she graduated from Millersville State
University and attended the University of Pennsylvania as a Mellon
Fellow in the Humanities. The focus of her doctoral studies was modern
German history, European cultural history, and European women's history.
After receiving her Ph.D. in 1995, she taught at the University of
Pennsylvania for one year. Since the fall of 1996 she has been teaching
at Vassar College. In her forthcoming book (University of North Carolina
Press) she shows how West German society modernized during the 1950s.
She was particularly interested in studying how generational, class
and gender differences impacted decisions about the new democracy
and American popular culture. Her book also explores how Germans dealt
with their Nazi past, and to what degree racism and antisemitism remained
crucial categories in which Germans debated a new national identity.
Hoehn
has given numerous papers in both the United States and Germany
on the topics of Americanization, German gender politics after the
war, German attitudes toward race and antisemitism in the postwar
years. She has also served as a historical consultant and co-narrator
for two German television productions on the impact of the American
military on Germany society.
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