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Michaela Hoenicke Moore

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M 6:30-7:30PM
T 4:00-5:00PM
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Tel: (319) 335-2065

Email: michaela-hoenicke-moore@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Research

Two broad themes addressing the cultural underpinnings of international relations inform Michaela Hoenicke Moore’s research and writing. These are the dynamics between American political culture and foreign policy, on the one hand, and European responses to ‘ America’ as a model and a world power, on the other hand. Her first book Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) explored the political and intellectual context in which American popular and official conceptions of Nazi Germany were developed. This inquiry into the intellectual side of the war effort shows how conflicting explanations of ‘the German problem’ shaped American warfare and postwar planning, and even laid important foundations for subsequent international scholarship on National Socialism.

More recently Michaela has examined how German political journalists refashioned their private and political identities after 1945 and how they used America as a key concept in the political-intellectual transition from dictatorship to democracy. This project forms part of a larger exploration of transatlantic debates on American power after World War Two.

Currently she is interested in the dramatic reconfiguration of American nationalism after 1945 and the role that a heavily edited memory of World War Two played in that process. Her research examines postwar patriotism as an expression of national identity relevant for the formulation and legitimization of cold war foreign policy.

Michaela received her PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1998. Before joining the department in 2008, Michaela taught US history at the Kennedy Institute of the Free University in Berlin and York University in Toronto, as well as transatlantic history at the University of North Carolina and Southern Illinois University. She also worked as a senior fellow in US Foreign Policy at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.

Teaching

Hoenicke Moore teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of US foreign policy, transnational history, international relations and history and theory

  • 16A:152: United States in World Affairs
  • 16W:155: Europe and the US in the 20 th Century
  • 16A: 051: The American Dream in International Perspective
  • 16A:155: The Political Culture of American Foreign Policy

Publications

Books

  • “Know Your Enemy:” The American Response to Nazism, 1933-1945 ( New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
  • The Uncertain Superpower: Domestic Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War , co-editor ( Leverkusen: Leske and Budrich, 2002)
  • Macht und Moral: Beiträge zur Ideologie und Praxis amerikanischer Außenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert , co-editor (Münster: LITVerlag, 1999)

Articles

  • Heimat und Fremde. Das Verhältnis zu Amerika im journalistischen Werk von Margret Boveri und Dolf Sternberger. In: Konrad H. Jarausch, Arnd Bauerkämper, Marcus Payk, eds., Demokratiewunder: Transatlantische Mittler und die kulturelle Öffnung Westdeutschlands, 1945-1970. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005) 218-52.
  • “American Interpretations of National Socialism” in: The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy , ed. by Daniel Rogers and Alan E. Steinweis ( Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2003) 1-18.
  • “USA – Innenpolitische Unversöhnlichkeiten und außenpolitische Handlungsfähigkeit” in Jahrbuch Internationale Politik 1999/2000 (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2002) 335-46.
  • “Absichten und Ambivalenzen in der amerikanischen Europapolitik”, in Reinhard C. Meier-Walser/Susanne Luther, eds.: Europa und die USA. Transatlantische Beziehungen im Spannungsfeld von Regionalisierung und Globalisierung (Munich: OLZOG, 2002) 148-160.
  • "'Prevent World War III:' A Historiographical Appraisal of Morgenthau's Program for Germany," in The United States in Depression and War, eds. Robert A. Garson and Stuart S. Kidd (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999) 155-172.
  • "Uncle Sam, die spanische Magd und das deutsche Fräulein: Gender und amerikanische Außenpolitik," Gender Matters: Berliner Beiträge zur Amerikanistik 6 (1997) 97-119.
  • "Das Nationalsozialistische Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 1933-45" in Deutschland und die USA im 20. Jahrhundert , eds. Klaus Larres and Torsten Oppelland (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997) 62-94.
  • "'Know Your Enemy:' American Wartime Images of Germany, 1942/43," in Enemy Images in American History, eds. Ragnhild Fiebig-von Hase and Ursula Lehmkuhl (Providence: Berghahn, 1997) 231-78.
  • "German-American Encounters at Zero Hour," Borderlines 2 (March 1995) 166-94.

Awards & Service

  • Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa (Summer 2008)
  • Summer Research Fellowship, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2006)
  • Member of the Board of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 2002-2004
  • Reviewer for Journal of Transatlantic Studies , 2002-
  • J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship, American Historical Association & Library of Congress, Washington DC (1999/2000)
  • Foreign Policy Studies Fellowship, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (1992/93)
  • German Marshall Fund of the U.S. Dissertation Grant (1992)
  • International Federation of University Women Award (1992)
  • Beeke-Levy Research Fellowship, Roosevelt Institute, NY (1991)
  • German Historical Institute Dissertation Fellowship, Washington, DC (1991)
  • Fulbright Student Scholarship (1987-89)
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