Eric Kurlander (born January 1973) is an American
historian who currently serves as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of
History at
Stetson University. He received his
B.A. in history from
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...
, and his
M.A. and
Ph.D. in modern European history from
Harvard University. Kurlander is a specialist in
modern German history and particularly of
Nazi Germany, about which he has written three books. The most recent, ''Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich'', was nominated for the
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
The ''Bookseller''/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, originally known as the Diagram Group Prize for the Oddest Title and commonly known as the Diagram Prize, is a humorous literary award that is given annually to a book with an unusua ...
in 2019.
Selected publications
*''The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933''. Berghahn, 2006.
*''Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich''.
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009.
*''Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich''. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017.
References
Stetson University faculty
Living people
1973 births
Historians of Nazism
Bowdoin College alumni
Harvard University alumni
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