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ALEJANDRO BAER

Curriculum Vitae (February 2014)

Director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota R E S E A R C H A R E A S O F E X P E R T I S E Social Memory Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sociology of Media and Communication, Sociology of Culture and Religion, Sociology of Modern Judaism, Empirical Research on Antisemitism, Qualitative Research Methodologies, Visual Sociology.

A C A D E M I C T R A I N I N G

2013 Habilitation1, Sociology. Universität Bayreuth (Germany) 2003 Ph.D. Sociology. Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain). Dissertation title: “Video Testimony and the Shaping of

Holocaust Public Memory”. 1997/1998 Graduate Studies Program. Department of

Communication. University of California, San Diego. 1995 Licenciatura. Sociology / Social Anthropology. Universidad

Complutense Madrid.

P R E V I O U S A C A D E M I C P O S I T I O N S

2011-2012 Professor of Sociology (Visiting Chair of Qualitative Methods of Social Research) Institute of Sociology.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtät München.

2009-2011 Assistant Professor, Chair of Sociology of Culture and Religion (Prof.Dr. Bernt Schnettler), University of Bayreuth,

Germany.

1 Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve in Germany and is

earned after obtaining a research doctorate, such as a PhD.

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2008- 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology,

Complutense University, Madrid.

2004–2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology IV Complutense University, Madrid.

2003–2004 Post-Doc Fellow, Alcalá de Henares University, Institute of

Mediterranean Studies, Madrid.

1999–2003 Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Complutense

University, Madrid.

V I S I T I N G P O S I T I O N S

2007-2008 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Sociology, Technical

University, Berlin.

2002 (summer) Visiting Researcher, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University.

2001 (October-November) Visiting Fellow, Fritz Bauer Institute - Study and

Documentation Center on the History and Memory of the Holocaust, Frankfurt.

2000 Visiting Researcher, Department of Sociology, University

of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Books

BAER, Alejandro (2006), Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación [Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation], Madrid: Losada.

BAER, Alejandro (2005), El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto [Audiovisual Testimony. Image and memory of the Holocaust], Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).

JEREZ, Ariel, SAMPEDRO, Víctor & BAER, Alejandro (2000): Medios de comunicación, consumo Informativo y actitudes políticas en España [Media, News Consumption and Political Attitudes in Spain], Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).

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Edited books and Journal special Issues

Visuelle Soziologie [Visual Sociology], special issue of the journal Soziale Welt (vol 1-2, 2013). Bernt Schnettler and Alejandro Baer (eds).

Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods, Forum Qualitative Research (FQS), vol. 12, nr. 3, Sept. 2011. Miguel Valles, Louise Corti, Maria Tamboukou and Alejandro Baer (eds.).

Antropología y Derechos Humanos [Anthropology and Human Rights], Special Issue Revista de Antropología Social, nr. 18. 2010. Marie José Devillard and Alejandro BAER, Alejandro (eds.).

Visual Sociology, Forum Qualitative Research (FQS), vol. 9, nr. 3, Sept. 2008. Hubert Knoblauch, Bernt Schnettler, Alejandro Baer, Sabine Petschke und Eric Laurier (eds.).

España y el Holocausto. Historia y testimonios [Spain and The Holocaust. History and Testimonies], Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones. 2007. Alejandro Baer and Jacobo Israel (eds.).

El estigma imborrable. Reflexiones sobre el nuevo antisemitismo [The Indelible Stigma: Reflections on the New Antisemitism], Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones. 2005. Jacobo Israel, Alejandro Baer et.al. (eds.)

Articles in Journals

BAER, Alejandro, SZNAIDER, Natan (2015, accepted for publication), Ghosts of the

Holocaust in Franco’s Mass Graves. Cosmopolitan Memories and the Politics of

Never Again, Memory Studies vol 5, nr. 2.

BAER, Alejandro (2013), Memoria de Auschwitz y Antisemitismo Secundario, y tres

tesis sobre el prejuicio anti-judío en la España actual, [Memory of Auschwitz

and Secondary Antisemitism, and three thesis on the anti-Jewish prejudice in present-day Spain], Constelaciones. Revista de Teoría Crítica, nr. 4, 99-118.

SCHNETTLER, Bernt and BAER, (2013). “Perspektiven einer Visuellen Soziologie.

Schlaglichter und blinde Flecken einer aktuellen soziologischen Debatte.” [Perspectives of Visual Sociology. Highlights and Blind Spots of a Contemporary

Sociological debate.] Pp. 7-15 in: Visuelle Soziologie, Special issue Soziale Welt,

vol. 1-2, 2013

BAER, Alejandro, LOPEZ, Paula (2012), The Blind Spots of Secularization. A Qualitative

Approach to the Study of Antisemitism in Spain, in: Fine, Robert and Achinger,

Christine (eds.) European Societies, Special Issue on Racism and Antisemitism, vol. 14, nr. 2, 201-221.

BAER, Alejandro (2011), The Voids of Sepharad. The Memory of the Holocaust in

Spain, in: Tabea Linhard, Daniela Flesler and Adrian Pérez Melgosa (eds.) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 12, nr.1, 95-120.

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BAER, Alejandro (2011) Zwischen Europäisierung und Verdrängung. Erinnerung an

den Holocaust in Spanien [Between Europaization and Repression: Memory of

the Holocaust in Spain]. Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, vol 5, nr. 2, 97-111.

BAER, Alejandro (2011) „Oma Clemens Reise nach Argentinien“. Ein Reisebericht

über Spanien als Fluchtweg und Falle (Einleitung). [Oma Clemens Journey to Argentina. An Account on Spain as Escape Route and Trap (Introduction)].

Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, vol. 5, nr. 2, 112-121.

DEVILLARD, M.J. & BAER , Alejandro (2010), Antropología y Derechos Humanos: multi-culturalismo, retos y resignificaciones [Anthropology and Human Rigths:

Multiculturalism, Challenges and Resignifications], in: M.J Devillard and A. Baer

(eds.), Revista de Antropología Social nr. 8, 25-51.

BAER, Alejandro (2009), Spain´s Jewish Problem. From the Judeo-Bolchevik Conspiracy to the Nazi-Zionist State, in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung (Zentrum für Antisemismus Forschung- TU Berlin) nr. 18, 89-110.

FERRANDIZ, Francisco & BAER, Alejandro (2008), Digital Memory: The Visual Recording of Mass Grave Exhumations in Contemporary Spain, in: Forum Qualitative Social Research 9(3) http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1152 .

BAER, Alejandro (2007), Tanques contra piedras. La imagen de Israel en España [Tanks Against Stones: Israels Image in Spain], in: Documentos de Trabajo (DT), Real Instituto Elcano http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/ARI2007/ARI74-2007_Imagen_Israel_Espa%F1a.pdf .

VALLES, Miguel & BAER, Alejandro (2005), Qualitative Social Research in Spain: Past, Present and Future. A portrait, in: Forum Qualitative Social Research 6 (3) http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/viewArticle/15/31.

BAER, Alejandro & SÁNCHEZ PEREZ, Francisco (2004), La metodología biográfica audiovisual. El proyecto Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation [The Visual Biographic Methodology. On the Project Survivor of the Shoah Visual History Foundation], in: Empiria nr. 7, 35–55.

BAER, Alejandro (2004), De memoria judía a memoria universal. El Holocausto y la globalización del recuerdo [From Jewish to Universal Memory. The Holocaust and the Globalization of Remembrance], in: Anthropos nr. 203, 76– 94.

BAER, Alejandro & ZUKIERMAN, Federico (2004), Nuevo antisemitismo, viejos estigmas: caricaturas y viñetas de la prensa española sobre el conflicto israelí-palestino (2000-2003) [New Antisemitism, Old Stigma: Caricatures and Cartoons on the Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Spanish Press], in: Raíces 58, 25–38.

SAMPEDRO, Víctor & BAER, Alejandro (2003), El recuerdo como olvido y el pasado extranjero: padres e hijos ante la memoria histórica mediatizada [Memory as Oblivion and the Foreign Past: Parents, Children and Mediatized Memory], in: Revista de Estudios de Juventud (INJUVE), Special Issue “25 años de Constitución”, 93–108.

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BAER, Alejandro & SADABA, Igor (2003), Tecnologías de la memoria: el recuerdo colectivo en la sociedad de la información [Technologies of Memory: Collective Remembering in the Information Society], in: Cuadernos de Realidades Sociales 61-62, 163–184.

BAER, Alejandro (2002), La representación del Holocausto y sus límites [The Representation of the Holocaust and its Limits], in: Raíces , 50-51, 15–19.

BAER, Alejandro (2001), Consuming History and Memory through Mass Media Products, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 4, nr. 4, 490– 501.

BAER, Alejandro (1999), Postsionismo vs. nacionalismo mesiánico. Religion y política en el Israel de los 90 [Post-Zionism vs. Messianic Nationalism: Religion and Politics in Israel in the nineties], in: Viento Sur, nr. 45, 21–27.

BAER, Alejandro (1999) Imagen, memoria e industria cultural [Image, Memory and Cultural Industry], in: Arte, Individuo y Sociedad , nr. 11, 113–121.

BAER, Alejandro (1997), Oriente Medio, mito y realidad [The Middle East: Myth and Reality], in: El Viejo Topo, nr. ,34–38.

Book Chapters

BAER, Alejandro (2014 forthcoming): Between “Just Punishment” and “Unthinkable

Fascist Crimes”: Reactions to Kristallnacht in Civil War Spain, in: Wilson, Nathan and Colin McCullough (eds.), Kristallnacht: Violence, Memory, and History,

London: Routlege.

SCHNETTLER, Bernt and BAER, Alejandro(2014 forthcoming): Zur Soziologie des Zeitzeugen. Erinnerung zwischen Subjektivität, Sozialität und kommunikativer Konstruktion, In: Poferl , A. and N. Schröer (eds.) Wer oder was handelt? Zum Subjektverständnis der Hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie, edited by. Wiesbaden: VS-Springer.

BAER, Alejandro (2013): Between Old and New Antisemitism. The Image of Jews in

Present-day Spain, in: Rosenfeld, Alvin (ed.), Resurgent Antisemitism: Global

Perspectives, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 95-117

BAER, Alejandro and Sznaider, Natan (2013, forthcoming): Del Holocausto a las fosas

de Franco. Memorias transnacionales y políticas el Nunca Más [From the

Holocaust to Franco´s Mass Graves. Transnational memories and the politics of Never Again], in: Ferrandiz, Francisco (ed.) Las políticas de la memoria en la

España democrática. Madrid: Anthropos.

SCHNETTLER, Bernt, KNOBLAUCH, Hubert and BAER, Alejandro (2012): Videoanálisis interpretativo de situaciones sociales: etnografía, análsis secuencial y

hermenéutica, in: Arroyo, Millán and Sádaba, Igor (eds.), Metodología de la

investigación social. Técnicas innovadoras y sus aplicaciones, Madrid: Síntesis, 251-269

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SCHNETTLER, Bernt, BAER, Alejandro (2012): Holocaust-Erinnerungskultur als

Wissensnetzwerk: Zwischen globaler Wertegemeinschaft und universaler

Symbolkultur [Holocaust Remembrance Culture as Network of Knowledge: Between Global Community of Values and Universal Symbolic Culture],

Verhandlungen des Jubiläumskongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für

Soziologie in Frankfurt 2010, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 633-648.

BAER, Alejandro (2011): Dátiles del mar muerto y tanques judíos. Apuntes sobre la

imagen de Israel en España [Dates from the Dead Sea and Jewish Tanks. Notes

on the Image of Israel in Spain], in: J. Tobías and A. Lavié (eds.), Israel. Siglo XXI. Tradición y Vanguardia, La Coruña: Editorial Netbiblio.

FERRANDIZ, Francisco, BAER, Alejandro (2011) Violencia política y memoria digital: las

exhumaciones de fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) en la España contemporánea [Political Violence and Digital Memory: Exhumations of Mass

Graves from the Civil War (1936-1939) in Contemporary Spain], in: Y. Segovia

and B. Nates Cruz (eds.), Territorios, identidades y violencias, Manizales (Colombia): Ed. Universidad de los Andes.

BAER, Alejandro (2010): La memoria social: breve guía para perplejos [Social

Memory: a Guide for the Perplexed], in: J.A. Zamora und A. Sucasas (Eds.), Memoria - Política – Justicia. En diálogo con Reyes Mate, Madrid: Editorial

Trotta, 131-148.

SCHNETTLER, Bernt, BAER, Alejandro and ZIFONUN,Dariuš (2010): Transnationale Gedächtniskultur? Ansätze einer ländervergleichenden Performanzanalyse von

Erinnerungsritualen am Beispiel des 27. Januars [Transnational Memory?

Appraisal on a Comparative Study of Remembrance Rituals taking the example of January 27th], in: Soeffner, Hans-Georg (ed.), Unsichere Zeiten.

Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34.

Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Jena 2008, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.

BAER, Alejandro & LOPEZ, Paula (2010): Israel en el callejón del gato. El conflicto de

Gaza y Líbano de 2006 en el humor gráfico español [Israel in the Alley of Mirrors: The Gaza and Lebanon Conflicts of 2006 in Spanish Cartoons], in: Israel en los

medios españoles (2006-2009). Hebraica Ediciones. Madrid.

BAER, Alejandro (2009), Zwischen Aufhetzung und Verurteilung: Die Rezeption des Novemberpogroms im Spanien des Bürgerkriegs [Between Incitement and Condemnation: The November Pogroms of 1938 in Civil War Spain], in: Die November-Pogrome 1938. Versuch einer Bilanz, Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, Berlin.

BAER, Alejandro & SCHNETTLER, Bernt (2008), Hacia una metodología cualitativa audiovisual. El video como instrumento de investigación social [Towards an audiovisual qualitative methodlogy. Video as an Instrument for Social

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Research], in: Aldo Merlino (ed.) Investigación cualitativa en ciencias sociales: temas y problemas, Buenos Aires: Thompson Learning, 149 – 173.

FINKEL, Lucila, PARRA, Pilar & BAER, Alejandro (2008), La entrevista abierta en la investigación social [The Open Interview in Social Research], in: Angel Gordo und Araceli Serrano (eds.) Prácticas de investigación social cualitativa, Pearson: Madrid, 127–154.

SABANOGLU, Albert & BAER, Alejandro (2006), Israel en los medios españoles. ¿Camino hacia la normalización? [Israel in the Spanish Media. On the Way to Normalization?], in: Jacobo Israel Garzón (eds.), España-Israel. 20 años de relaciones, Hebraica Ediciones: Madrid, 79–95.

FRANCESCUTTI, Pablo, BAER, Alejandro, GARCÍA, José & LÓPEZ, Paula (2005), La noche de los móviles: medios, redes de confianza y movilización juvenil [The Night of Cell Phones: Media, Networks and Youth Mobilization] , in: Victor Sampedro (eds.), 13-M Multitudes Online, La Catarata: Madrid, 65–85.

BAER, Alejandro & ZUKIERMAN, Federico (2005), Israel y el judaísmo en el humor gráfico español [Israel and Judaism in Spanish Cartoons] in: J. Israel Garzón, A. Baer et.al (eds.) El estigma imborrable. Reflexiones sobre nuevo antisemisimo, Hebraica Ediciones: Madrid, 71–108.

Book reviews

Torchin, Leshu (2012): Creating the Witness. Documenting Genocide in Film, Video, and the Internet. University of Minnesota Press. Review in Law and Society Review ()

Susanne Zepp and Antonio Gòmez López-Quiñones (eds.) (2010): The Holocaust in Spanish Memory. Historical Perceptions and Cultural Discourse, Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur. Band VII. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2010. Review in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol 46, nr.1, (2012), 170-172.

Sokol, Neal (2004): Ilan Stavans: Eight conversations. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Raíces, 61 (2005), S. 64-65.

Finkelstein, Norman (2002): La industria del Holocausto, Madrid: Siglo XXI. Raíces, 54 (2003), S. 33-36.

Saul Friedlander (ed.) Probing the Limits of Representation. Nazism and the Final Solution, Isegoría, 23 (2000), 265– 268.

Op-Eds in daily newspapers

Baer, Alejandro “A Nazi in our midst. Pursuit of justice must persist”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 17. June 2013.

BAER, Alejandro “Remembering Kristallnacht: it starts with apathy”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 9. November 2012.

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BAER, Alejandro “A study to deny a problem”, Jerusalem Post, 18. October 2010 (with Robin Stoller).

BAER, Alejandro, “La España en guerra ante la Kristallnacht” (Spain at War and the Kristallnacht), El País, 11. November 2008.

BAER, Alejandro, “No dibujarás…” (You shall not draw...) (on the Mohamed cartoons debate) , ABC, 7 March 2006.

Other Publications

Research Paper “Zur Judenrettung Spanischer Diplomaten: Fakten, Mythen und

Erinnerungspolitik” [On the Rescue of Jews by Spanish Diplomats: Facts, Myths and Memory Politics], 3. Internationale Konferenz zur Holocaustforschung, Berlin

2011.http://www.konferenz-

holocaustforschung.de/wpcontent/uploads/2011/03/Vortrag_Baer.pdf

Exhibition Book “Visas for Freedom. Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust” (Spanish

Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 2009.

Article “Antisemitism in Spain. Old or new?” European Forum on Antisemitism. 5. January 2009. On-line at: http://www.european-forum-on-antisemitism.org/berlin-alert/view/article/exclusive-antisemitism-in-spain-old-or-new/

E-Learinng Material “El método biográfico” [The Biograhpic Method]. On-line Program for the Degree of Sociolgy and Social Work – Universidad de la Rioja, 2002.

Article “Auschwitz en el cine y la televisión" [Auschwitz in Cinema and Television]. Instituto de Filosofía – CSIC. (www.ifs.csic.es), 2002.

Article “Imagen y memoria: audiovisuales sobre Desaparecidos en el Cono Sur [Image and Memory: Films on the Desaparecidos in the Southern Cone]” , (www.ari-peru.org), 2001.

Article “Los judíos en el humor gráfico” [The Jews in Political Cartoons] in Lateral, Revista de cultura, 107, 2003.

Regular contributions for the Argentinian cultural weekly magazine La Maga, (July1992- October 1994).

Documentary Films

“Oasis en tierra extraña” (on Ecuadorian immigration in Madrid). AIRE COMUNICACION y Colectivo Universitario de Producción Audiovisual en Ciencias Sociales. 2002, 40 min. (Research and Production).

Didactic Film “Epistemología y Metodología Audiovisual” (Audiovisual Epistemology and Methodology), 1999, 25 min. (Research, Script and Production).

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L A N G U A G E S

English Fluency in speaking and reading, good competency in writing.

Translations, teaching experience, publications.

German Fluency in speaking and reading, good competency in writing. Translations, teaching experience, publications.

Spanish Native language. Translations, teaching experience, publications.

Hebrew Basic knowledge in speaking and reading.

French Some knowledge in speaking and reading.

F U N D E D R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T S

(Current projects)

§ Cross-Cultural Comparison of Holocaust Remembrance Rituals in Germany and Spain– A Case Study on January 27th.

This project combines communications, social anthropology and cultural studies with a focus on memory and ritual. It aims to compare the commemoration

culture in Germany and Spain, focusing on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan.

27th). Centred on the same event, contrasting these two highly diverse national memory cultures enables to contribute answers to the question of continuing

differences or emerging convergences and the evolution of a ‘globalized

memory’ or a trend towards the ‘cosmopolitization’ of remembrance. Joined project with Prof. Bernt Schnettler (Universität Bayreuth), Prof. Dariuš Zifonun (Alice

Salomon Hochschule Berlin), and Prof. Esmeralda Ballesteros (Universidad

Complutense Madrid).

§ The Politics of Memory in Spain: Analysis of the impact of exhumations in the early years of the twenty-first century. [Las políticas de la memoria en la España

contemporánea: Análisis del impacto de las exhumaciones de fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil en los primeros años del siglo XXI]. Leading Researcher: Prof.

Francisco Ferrándiz (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid). § Philosophy after the Holocaust III [Filosofía después del Holocausto III: Vigencias

de sus lógicas perversas]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and

Science, Spain. Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Manuel Reyes Mate

Rupérez(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).

(Finished projects)

A. Projects as leading researcher

2008-2011

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§ Qualitative Video analysis in Social Research. Leading Researchers: Alejandro

Baer and Bernt Schenttler, Funded by the Deutsche Akademische Austausch

Dienst (DAAD) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

2006–2007

§ Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust. Research and production of the

exhibition and exhibition book. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

2001-2002

§ Ecuadorian immigration and public spaces in Madrid. [Inmigración ecuatoriana y espacios públicos de Madrid«). Spanish Agency for

Development and International Cooperation (AECID) and Cáritas Spain.

Leading Researchers: A. Baer, P. Francescutti, A.Jerez.

2002–2003

§ Survey Evaluation on the Graduate Program at the Institute of Sociology and

Political Science, Complutense University Madrid [Evaluación de la oferta y calidad de los estudios de Tercer Ciclo, UCM], Complutense University Madrid.

B. Projects as a member of the research team:

2006–2008

§ The Construction of the Event: the Historical Discourse of the Spanish Press on the March 11 Terrorist Attacks. [La construcción del acontecimiento: el discurso histórico de la prensa española frente a los atentados del 11 de

marzo]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Spain

Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Jorge Lozano Hernández (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

2005–2008

• Philosophy after the Holocaust II: Memory and Justice II, [Filosofía después del Holocausto III: Justicia y Memoria, financiado por el Ministerio de Educación y

Ciencia, España]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science,

Spain. Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Manuel Reyes Mate Rupérez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).

2005–2007

§ Politics, Information and Citizenship during Elections. [Política, información y ciudadanía en campaña electoral] Funded by the Ministry of Education and

Science, Spain. Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Enric Saperas Lapiedra

(Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid).

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F U N D E D P R O J E C T S F O R T H E I M P R O V E M E N T O F T E A C H I N G

2005

§ Qualitative Interviews in Social Research: Development of Pedagogical

Materials. Proyecto Innovación y Mejora de la Calidad Docente 2005/321, Complutense University, Madrid. (Group Project: Dept. Sociología IV).

1999

§ Teaching Discussion Group Methodology: Audiovisual Materials. Proyecto de Innovación Educativa PIE 99/19, Complutense University, Madrid. (Leading

Professor: Miguel S. Valles).

S C H O L A R S H I P S , G R A N T S A N D A W A R D S

2012 University of Bayreuth International Club Award for International Scholarship.

2002 International Travel Grant (New York University) Universidad Complutense Madrid.

2001 International Travel Grant (Fritz Bauer Institute), Universidad Complutense

Madrid.

2000 International Travel Grant (Univ. of California Los Angeles), Universidad

Complutense Madrid.

1999 4-Year PhD Scholarship - Beca para la Formación de Personal Investigador (FPI). Spanish Ministry of Education.

1997 1-Year Graduate Studies Scholarship. University of California / Universidad

Complutense Madrid.

1993 Erasmus Scholarship, University of Leipzig (academic year 1993/1994).

C O U R S E S T A U G H T

University of Minnesota

Fall Semester 2013 Advanced Research Methods. Qualitative Data Analysis

Spring Semester 2013 Mass Media and Society

(SS= Summer Semester /WS= Winter Semester)

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Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (Courses taught in German except where otherwise indicated)

SS 2012 Ethnographic Field Work

Jews in Europe & Modernity. Sociological Perspectives.

Methods in Sociological Memory Research

Research Workshop of the Chair in Qualitative Methods.

WS 2011/2012 Introduction to Qualitative Social Research Methodology.

Visual Methods in Empirical Social Research.

Antisemitism: Theories and Research (English).

Research Colloquium of the Chair in Qualitative Methods.

University of Bayreuth (Germany) (Courses taught in German except where otherwise indicated)

SS 2011 Spanish society and culture. Introduction to Social Structure and

Cultural Analysis. (with Bernt Schnettler).

SS 2011 Jews in Modern Europe: A Sociology of Culture.

SS 2011 Introduction to the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences (with

Stefan Kurth).

SS 2011 Workshop on Empirical Social Research.

WS 2010/2011 Antisemitism: Theories and Research (English).

WS 2010/2011 Introduction to the Sociology of Culture.

WS 2010/2011 Workshop on Empirical Social Research.

SS 2010 Emile Durkheim and the Durkheim-School.

SS 2010 Workshop on Empirical Social Research.

SS 2010 Introduction to the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences (with

Stefan Kurth).

WS 2009/2010 Workshop on Empirical Social Research.

WS 2009/2010 Collective Memory and Memory Culture: Theories, debates and

Methods.

Jews in Europe & Modernity. Sociological Perspectives.

Complutense University Madrid (Spain) (Courses taught in Spanish)

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SS 2009 Introduction to Social Anthropology, (2 Groups, Degree in

Sociology).

SS 2009 Introduction to Social Anthropology, (1 Group, School Social Work).

SS 2009 Introduction to Social Anthropology, (1 Group, Degree in

Psychology Degree).

WS 2008/2009 Material Culture and Audiovisual Methodologies, (Master of Social

Science Methodology) (with Bernt Schnettler).

SS 2008 Introduction to Social Anthropology, (2 Groups, School of Social Work).

Technichal University of Berlin (Germany)

WS 2007/2008 Collective Memory: Theories, Current Debates and Research Methods.

Complutense University Madrid (Spain) (Courses taught in Spanish)

SS 2006/2007 The Ethnographic Method, (Master of Social Science Methodology).

The Survey: Theory and Practice, (Degree in Sociology).

WS 2006/2007 Quantitative Methods in Social Research, (Degree in Sociology).

WS 2005/2006 Introduction to Statistics, (Degree in Social Anthropology).

SS 2004/2005 Quantitative Methods in Social Research, (Degree in Sociology).

Advanced Methods of Social Research, (Degree in Sociology).

Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Madrid Campus) (Courses taught in Spanish)

Acad. year 2004/05 Methods in Market Research (Degree in Political Science and

Sociology).

Acad. year 2003/04 Methods in Market Research (Degree in Political Science and

Sociology).

American University, (Madrid Program)

SS 2002/2003 Terrorism and the Media (BA in Communication Studies)

University of California San Diego (UCSD)

WS/ SS 1997/1998 Spanish as Foreign Language (Language Center, Department of Linguistics, University of California San Diego).

Cinema in Latin America (Teaching Assistant, Department of

Communication, University of California San Diego).

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L E C T U R E S A N D W O R K S H O P S I N G R A D U A T E P R O G R A M S

SS 2009 Introduction to Social Research Methods (Master in Contemporary Arab

and Islamic Studies, Autonoma University of Madrid).

2006/2007 Introduction to Audiovisual Methodologies, (Master in Gender Equality, Policies and Agents, UCM).

2005/2006 Introduction to Audiovisual Methodologies, (Master in Gender Equality,

Policies and Agents, UCM).

2003/2004 Comunication and Cultural Diversity, (Master in Integral Comunication,

Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid).

2002/2003 Workshop on Image Analysis, (Master in Development Studies, UCM).

2001/2002 Workshop on Image Analysis (Master in Development Studies, UCM).

1999-2001 Seminars on Audiovisual Research Methods (UCM).

O R G A N I Z E R O F P R O F E S S I O N A L M E E T I N G S A N D S E S S I O N S

§ Representing Genocide: Media, Law and Scholarship, International

Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University Minnesota, April 2013, (with Joachim Savelsberg).

§ Methods in Sociological Memory Research, Session organizer at the The Second

ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, August 2012. (With Bernt Schnettler). § Ad-hoc Group „Sociology of Judaism. Jewish Lifeworlds in Europe“, Kongress der

Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Frankfurt, Oktober 2010. (With Bernt

Schnettler). § Qualitative Methods and Social Memory Research, Thematic Stream at the 10th

Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Innovating

Qualitative Research, Bayreuth, September 2010. § IV Seminario Internacional sobre Antisemitismo, Madrid, 30. November and 1

December 2011.

§ III Seminario Internacional sobre Antisemitismo, Madrid, 24/25 November 2010. § II Seminario Internacional sobre Antisemitismo, Madrid, 18/ 19 November 2009.

§ I Seminario Internacional sobre Antisemitismo, Madrid, 25/26. November 2008.

§ Jornadas de Cine Sociopolítico, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad Complutense, März 1997.

§ Workshop on Visual Sociology, V Congreso Español de Sociología, Granada,

September 1995.

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O T H E R P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S

Occasional reviewer for the following Journals, Publishers and Funding Institutions

Constelaciones. Revista de Teoría Crítica (Madrid)

Papers. Revista de Sociologia (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona).

Política y Sociedad. Revista de Ciencia Política y Sociología (Madrid)

Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea« (Madrid) .

Theory, Culture and Society (London).

Empiria: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales« (Madrid).

Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva, (ANEP) (Spain).

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship Program, United States Holocaust

Memorial Museum.

HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area).

Indiana University Press

Editorship of Journals / Jury member

Editorial Commitee, Papeles del CEIC (Centro de Estudios sobre la Identidad

Colectiva, Spain).

Jury Member of the International Documentary and Ethnographic Film Festival in

Espiello (Spain). (2012).

P R O F E S S I O N A L M E M B E R S H I P S

§ American Sociological Association § Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

o Sektion Wissenssoziologie.

§ European Sociological Association (ESA). o Executive Board Member of the Research Network on Qualitative

Methods.

o Member of the Research Network on Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism.

o Member of the Research Network Sociology of Religion,

§ Federación Española de Sociología

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§ Colegio Nacional de Licenciados en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología.

Department Affiliations

Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota

Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota

T H E S I S A D V I S E R

- Isabel Richter (Ludwig Maximilans Universität München) (Diplom), 2013

- Rosa-Auria Munté Ramos, PhD., 2012.

- Christian Uhrig (co-advisor), MA, 2011.

- Diana Marcela Cañón, MA, 2004.

- Isabel Pla Aguilar , MA 2005.

- Noemí Freijanes, MA 2006.

C O N T R I B U T I O N S T O A C A D E M I C C O N F E R E N C E S A N D L E C T U R E S

2013

§ “Visados para la Libertad. Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust”. Centro de Cultura Mexicana, San Antonio (Texas), February 21, 2013

§ “Between Incitement and Condemnation. The Divided Reception of Kristallnacht

in Civil War Spain”, Trinity University, San Antonio (Texas), February 22, 2013 § “Spain´s ‘Memoria histórica’ and the globalization of traumatic Memory”, History,

Redress and Cultural Memory Seminar, Columbia University, New York, March 7th,

2013 § “Between ‘No pasarán’ and ‘Nunca Más’. Spain´s Memory Movement in

Transnational Perspective”, Jeni Program of Latin American Studies, New School

for Social Research, New York, March 8, 2013 § “Between ‘No pasarán’ and ‘Nunca Más’. The Holocaust in the Spanish Memory

Movement, International Symposium Representing Genocide, University of

Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 6th, 2013

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§ “The Voids of Sepharad. Holocaust Memory in Spain”, Conference organized by

the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the University of Washington,

Seattle, April 29 and 30th, 2013 § “Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust”, lecture series on Sephardic Jewry, St.

Cloud State University (Minnesota), September 26th, 2013

§ “Memoria social y políticas de la memoria: breve guía para perplejos", VII Semana Internacional de Psicología Social. Sociedad y Pensamiento Social,

Mexico City, May 21st, 2013 (Via Skype)

§ “The ‘Spanish Holocaust’ and the memory of the Holocaust in Spain”, International Conference: The Holocaust Metaphor. Cultural Representations of

Traumatic Pasts in the 20th Century, Zaragoza (Spain), May 31st, 2013

§ “Antisemitismus, Erinnerungskultur und Bayreuth. Zur Soziologie eines Skandals”, public lecture on the occasion of the completion of the Habilitation, University of

Bayreuth (Germany), July 2nd, 2013

§ “International Holocaust Memorial Day in Spain: Global Politics of Remembrance & National Memory Conflicts”, American Sociological Association Conference,

New York, August 13th, 2013

§ Columbia University Seminar on Memory, Reconciliation and Redress, New York, “Ghost of the Holocaust in Francoist Mass Graves. Memory, Trauma, and the

Politics of Never Again”. March 2013.

2012

§ “Kristallnacht in Civil War Spain”. University of Minnesota, public lectura. November 2012.

§ “The Rescue of Jews by Spanish Diplomats during the Holocaust: Facts, Myths and

Memory Politics”. The 1st International Conference on Genocide Studies in the Czech Republic, Prague. July 2012

§ “Global Memory of the Holocaust and the Politics of Never Again”. University of

Minnesota, public lecture/job talk. § “Memoria de Auschwitz y antisemitismo secundario. Tres tesis sobre antisemitismo

en España”. Congreso Internacional Antisemitismo y Exclusión Ayer y Hoy, CSIC,

Madrid, § “The Social Implications of the Financial Crisis”. Participation in panel discussion.

June 2012. Friedrich Ebert Foundation Symposium & AJC Berlin Lawrence & Lee

Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations.

2011

§ “Auf der Suche nach den spanischen Desaparecidos: Exhumierungen der Franco- Opfer und die Entstehung einer glokalen Erinnerungskultur”. Workshop

Auf der Suche: Trauer, Politik und Erinnerung im Kontext von Kriegen und

Regimeverbrechen, Universität Konstanz.

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§ “Commemoration culture as popular religion”. European Sociological Association

(ESA) 10th Conference, Geneva.

§ “When does anti-Israel become antisemitic? A multi-method approach to political cartoons in the spanish press.” European Sociological Association (ESA)

10th Conference, Geneva.

§ “Vergessen, Erinnern und Wissen: Öffentliches Gedächtnis und Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung im postfranquistischen Spanien“. (with Bernt

Schnettler). Dreiländerkongress für Soziologie (DGS, ÖGS and SGS), Innsbruck. § “Von der Erinnerungspolitik zum kosmopolitischen Gedächtnis“. Workshop

Europäische Erinnerung jenseits der Nation? Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre

Forschung (ZIF) Bielefeld.

§ “Between new and old Antisemitism”. International Conference Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, Indiana University, Bloomington.

§ “Spain´s “Memoria histórica” and the globalization of traumatic Memory”.

Workshop Memory, Representation and Working Through Mass Violence: Argentina, Germany and Spain.

§ “Zwischen Europäisierung und Verdrängung: Holocaust-Erinnerung in Spanien“.

Institut für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Ludwig Maximilian Universität München.

§ “Zur Judenrettung Spanischer Diplomaten: Fakten, Mythen und

Erinnerungspolitik“. Internationale Konferenz zur Holocaustforschung: Helfer, Retter und Netzwerker des Widerstands, Berlin.

2010

§ “Soziales Erinnern in einer globalen Kommunikationskultur“. International Conference Forms and Functions of Social Memories - Perspectives from Social

and Cultural, Erlangen. § “Weltgemeinschaft tätigen Gedenkens? Das Entstehen einer transnationalen

Erinnerungskultur am Beispiel der Holocaust-Gedenkfeiern zum 27. Januar“.

Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) 2010, Frankfurt am Main.

§ “Antisemitism in Spain. What lies beneath the statistics?”. European Sociological

Association Research Network on Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism - Mid-term Conference, Queen’s University Belfast.

§ “Antisemitism in Spain. An empirical study”. Workshop on Methods at the

International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism, Berlin. § “Memoria colectiva y globalización. Del Holocausto a las fosas de Franco”.

Simposium on Memory and Borders, Ciclos de Debates EHESS (Ecoles des Hautes

Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Madrid.

2009

§ “Estudio cualitativo sobre antisemitismo en España”. II Seminario Internacional sobre Antisemitismo, Madrid.

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§ “Erinnerung und kommunikatives Gedächtnis”. Internationale Tagung Kommunikationskultur. Theorie und Forschung, Bayreuth..

§ “Contemporary Commemoration Cultures: Popularizing Religious Rituals or Constructing Secular Global Memory?” (with Bernt Schnettler). International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) Conference, Santiago de Compostela.

§ “Antisemitismo: Taller de Análisis de Imágenes”. Curso de Verano De la Tolerancia a la Libertad: sobre el desarrollo de la vida judía en la España democrática´, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo.

§ “Las representaciones del Holocausto desde las Ciencias Sociales”. Workshop Las ciencias sociales y el derecho ante la violencia social, Oñati.

§ “Visualizaciones de la memoria social en exhumaciones de fosas comunes en la España contemporánea”. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Riopiedras.

§ “Culturas de las memorias interculturales. España y Alemania ante el recuerdo globalizado del Holocausto”. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Arecibo.

2008

§ “La memoria del Holocausto en España. Oportunidades y desafíos para una cultura de la memoria plural”. XX Simposio Hispano-Israelí, Jerusalem.

§ “Zwischen Aufhetzung und Verurteilung: Die Rezeption des Novemberpogroms im Spanien des Bürgerkriegs“. Symposium: Der Novemberpogrom 1938, Berlin.

§ “Cultura del Holocausto: historia, memoria, política”. Symposium: Las mujeres y el Holocausto, Granada.

§ “Debates actuales sobre el Holocausto en Alemania”. Instituto de Filosofía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas (CSIC), Madrid.

§ “Visas for Freedom: Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust”. Congregation Kol Am. St. Louis, Missouri.

§ “Salónica 1943: Sebastián Romero Radigales ante la Deportación de los Sefardíes españoles”. Congreso de los Diputados, Día de la Memoria del Holocausto y Prevención de los Crímenes contra la Humanidad, Madrid.

2007

§ “Erinnerung an die Shoah im gegenwärtigen Spanien: Identifikationen, Projektionen, Vergleiche”. Kongress: Szenische Erinnerung der Shoah, Frankfurt am Main.

§ “Holocaust Memory and Antisemitism in Spain”. Conference: Analysis and Strategies against Anti-Semitism, Madrid.

§ “Visual methods in the process of exhuming mass graves in contemporary Spain” (with Francisco Ferrandiz). International Workshop on Visual Methods. European Science Foundation, Berlin.

§ “Análisis sociológico del humor gráfico. Un enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo”. IX Congreso Español de Sociología, Barcelona.

§ “Del hecho social al acontecimiento periodístico: los medios de comunicación como historiadores del presente” (with Pablo Francescutti). Congreso Internacional Comunicación y Realidad Universidad Ramón Llul – Barcelona.

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§ “El judaísmo como cultura”. Curso de Verano “Las tres religiones monoteistas”, Cátedra Santo Tomás, Avila.

2006

§ “Analisis sociológico de la memoria del Holocausto”. Seminario Internacional: Vivir el presente y soñar el futuro con la memoria del Holocausto, Universidad Complutense Madrid.

§ “Proyectos de historia oral audiovisual”. Jornadas Archivos etnográficos y construcción social de la memoria, CSIC, Madrid.

§ “Enseñar el Holocausto en España: desafíos políticos y culturales”. Simposio ¿Enseñar el Holocausto?, Instituto Francés de Madrid.

2004

§ “Problemas en la representación del Holocausto: entre la historiografía y el arte”. Encuentro Fascismos, dictaduras y populismo en Europa y América Latina, CSIC, Sevilla.

§ “Terrorismo, política y nuevas tecnologías: estrategias comunicativas de la ciudadanía durante la crisis del 11 al 14 de marzo de 2004” (with Paula Lopez and Pablo Francescutti). VIII Congreso Español de Sociología, Alicante.

§ “Metodología cualitativa: la cualidad del audiovisual”. VIII Congreso Español de Sociología, Alicante.

§ ”Qualitative Social Research in Spain: a Portrait” (with Miguel Valles). Midterm Conference RN Qualitative Methods of the European Sociology Association (ESA), Berlin.

2003

§ “La intelectualidad judía de entreguerras”. Simposio Jerusalén: las tres culturas, Universidad de Granada.

§ “Migrant Identity and Public Space: A Visual Sociology Research on Ecuadoreans in Madrid” (with Pablo Francescutto and Igor Sadaba). Congress of the European Sociology Association (ESA), Murcia.

2002

§ “Imágenes contra la impunidad. Producciones audiovisuales y memoria histórica en Argentina”. Congreso Iberoamericano de Etica y Filosofia Politica, Alcalá de Henares.

2001

§ “Sociedad de la información y nuevas formas de conocimiento social: el papel de la memoria”. VII Congreso Español de Sociología, Salamanca.

2000

§ “Consuming History and Memory Through Mass Media Products”. Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham.

§ “The Virtualization of History and Memory in New Media”. Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham

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1999

§ “Políticas del olvido y medios de comunicación”. IV Congreso Español de Ciencia Política, Granada.

§ “Image, Memory and Institutional Practices in Contemporary Culture”. V World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology.

1998

§ “Medios de comunicación y discurso histórico: reflexiones en torno al Proyecto de Historia Visual de Supervivientes del Holocausto”. VI Congreso Español de Sociología, La Coruña:

§ “Speech Games / Juegos del lenguaje”. 9th Annual Encounter of the Binational Association of Schools of Communication of the Californias. Mexicali, México: 17.

1995

§ “Pedagogía Audiovisual y Desarrollo”. V Congreso Español de Sociología, Granada.