Publications

2025

Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 388 pp.

“Reclaiming ‘National Autonomy’: Theodor Veiter and the Habsburg Legacy in Postwar International Refugee Law.” In Antiliberal Internationalism in the Twentieth Century: Beyond Left and Right?, eds. Matthijs Lok et al. London: Routledge. 167-184.

Review of Mark Jantzen and John D. Thiesen, eds., European Mennonites and the Holocaust. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 39, no. 1: 113-115.

2023

“Democratic Illusions: The Protestant Campaign for Conscientious Objection in the Early Federal Republic of Germany.” Central European History 56, no. 1: 71-91.

Review of Martin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. Contemporary Political Theory 22, no. 4: 137-140.

2022

“In the Presence of Absence: Transformations of the Confessional Divide in West Germany after the Holocaust.” In Germany and the Confessional Divide: Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989, eds. Mark Edward Ruff and Thomas Großbölting. New York: Berghahn Books. 216-241.

“Psychoanalyse und Neukantianismus. Zu den Ursprüngen der Dialektik von Psyche und Gesellschaft beim jungen Adorno.” German translation of “The Origins of Adorno’s Psycho-Social Dialectic.” Psyche: Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 76, no. 2: 139-182.

2021

“The Limits of Human Jurisdiction”: Protestantism, War Crimes Trials, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany. Journal of Modern History 93, no. 2: 363-400.

Review of Jeremy Best, Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. German Studies Review 44, no. 3: 607-609.

Review of Yael Almog, Secularism and Hermeneutics. German Studies Review 44, no. 2: 401-403.

Review of John P. R. Eicher, Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age. H-Transnational German Studies.

2020

The Unfinished Project of Enlightenment. Essay on Jürgen Habermas, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie [This Too a History of Philosophy]. Boston Review. June 18, 2020. [Third most-read essay published in Boston Review in 2020]

Review of Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy. Church History 89, no. 1: 224-226.

with Susan O. Rieder. “Teacher’s Guide on Exile and Community: The Life of Carola Domar.” Northampton, MA: Mass Humanities.

2019

The Origins of Adorno’s Psycho-Social Dialectic: Psychoanalysis and Neo-Kantianism in the Young Adorno. Modern Intellectual History 16, no. 2: 501-529.

Justifying Democracy: Johannes Heckel, Ernst Wolf, and the Recasting of Luther’s Theology of Resistance in Postwar Germany. In Kulturelle Wirkungen der Reformation / Cultural Impact of the Reformation, eds. Klaus Fitschen et al. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. 451-460.

2018

Faith for This World: Protestantism and the Reconstruction of Constitutional Democracy in Germany, 1933-1968. PhD Dissertation, Harvard University.

Review of Eric Kurlander, Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Reading Religion (American Academy of Religion).

Review of Albert Monshan Wu, From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950. H-Diplo.

Introduction to H-Diplo Roundtable on Mark Edward Ruff, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980. H-Diplo.