Forthcoming
“Die Kirche als Quelle demokratischer Grundwerte? Überlegungen zu Reinventing Protestant Germany. ” Forthcoming in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History.
Review of Andrea Hofmann, Zwischen Heimatfront und Schlachtfeld: “Kriegsbilder” in protestantischen Predigten und Andachtsschriften des Ersten Weltkriegs. Forthcoming in First World War Studies.
2026
Critical Dialogue on Reinventing Protestant Germany and Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen, Italy’s Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modernity with author responses. Perspectives on Politics 24, no. 2: 912-916.
H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Reinventing Protestant Germany (with author response), May 11, 2026.
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).
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