
Dr. Robert A. Willingham
Associate Professor
Chairperson
Department: History
Office: 308 Bank Building
540-375-2422
willingham@roanoke.edu
Degrees
B.A., Fort Lewis College;
M.A., Purdue University;
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Research & Teaching Interests
Modern Europe, the Holocaust, World History, the Middle East
Extracurricular
Member, Curriculum Committee;
Member, Academic Integrity Council
Books
- Jews in Leipzig, Germany Under Nazism, Communism and Democracy: Politics and Identity in the 20th Century, Edwin Mellen Press, 2011
Recent Publications
- Conference Paper, "Ludwig Goldwasser and the Leipzigers in Israel", at the International Holocaust Studies Conference, October, 2014;
- Conference Paper: "Germans in Israel", at the German Studies Association, September, 2011;
- "The Holocaust", in ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of World History, 2010;
- Conference Paper: "Introducing a Senior Seminar in World History" at the World History Association, June, 2009
- Conference Paper: "We Believe that now you know: the Struggle for Jewish Religious Space in the German Democratic Republic" at the German Studies Association, 2007;
- "A Phoenix in Saxony", in Leipziger Beitraege zur Juedische Geschichte und Kultur, 2005