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Molly J. Loberg

Molly J. LobergAssistant Professor           
Modern European History
E-mail: mjloberg@calpoly.edu
Office: Bldg. 47, Office 25C
Phone: (805)756-5706

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in History, Princeton University.  2006

  • B.A. in History and German, Pacific Lutheran University. 1998

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Germany

  • Interwar Europe

  • Modern Cities

  • Consumer Culture

AWARDS, HONORS & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Charlotte Procter Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University. 2004-2005. 

  • German Chancellor Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 2003-2004. 

  • Fulbright Award to Freiburg, Germany. 1998-1999

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

  • Rogue Pasters and Revolution: Political and Commercial Advertising and the Transformation of Public Space: 1848, 1918, 1933.” Conference Paper at the German Studies Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, 0ctober 2-5, 2008. 

  • “Looting in Weimar Berlin: Acts of Desperation, Crime or Politics?"  16th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 7-9, 2008.

  • “Crowd Control: Policing Politics and Commerce on the Streets of Interwar Berlin.” Conference Paper at the German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, October 4-7, 2007.

  • “Street Hawkers, Shopkeepers, and the Politics of Commerce and Consumption in Berlin, 1918-1923.”  Conference Paper at the German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 28-October 1, 2006.

  • “Soldiers and Refugees: Street Hawking in Berlin after the First World War.”  Invited paper presentation at the conference Cast Out: A History of Vagrancy in the Global Perspective at the Department of History, Princeton University, November 11-12, 2005.

  • “Good Mothers and Bad Burschen: Looting in Berlin, 1915-1932.” Paper presentation at the Gender and Women Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, October 18, 2005.

  • “Paper Revolutions: The Transformation of Print Culture and Public Space in Berlin, 1848-1918-1933.”  Paper presentation at the Navigating Texts and Contexts Conference for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2005. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • German Studies Association

  • American Historical Association

COURSES

  • HIST 111 – Western Civilization

  • HIST 112 – Western Civilization

  • HIST 303—Writing Seminar: Global Consumer Culture

  • HIST 318—The City in the Modern World

  • HIST 437—Nazi Germany

  • HIST 441 – Europe between the World Wars, 1914-1945

  • HIST 460&461—Senior Project