Geoffrey John Giles
Curriculum vitae
Abbreviated version [see also separate
list of publications and reviews]
Updated April 2011
Address
Department of History
Telephone: (352)-273-3373
Fax: (352)-379-0935
Email: ggiles@ufl.edu
Home page: www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ggiles
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, University of
Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1979-83
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of
Florida, 1978-79
Research Affiliate, Yale Higher Education Research Group, 1978-80
Research Associate, Yale Higher Education Research Group, 1976-78
Visiting Fellow,
Lecturer,
Post-doctoral Fellow, Higher
Education Research Group, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale
University, 1975-76
Degrees
Ph.D. in History, 1975,
Dissertation:
“The National Socialist Students' Association in
Supervisor:
Jonathan Steinberg
Examiners:
Timothy Mason, Owen Chadwick
Certificate in Education,
with distinction, 1970,
B.A. in German (French as subsidiary subject), upper
second class honours, 1969,
Education
St. Edmund's House, University of Cambridge, 1969-71, 1973-74
Universität Hamburg, 1971-73
Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, 1966-67
Awards & Fellowships
John K. Mahon Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of History, 2010
Course Enhancement Grant, UF Center for European Studies, Summer 2007
A UF
Course Enhancement Grant, UF Center for European Studies, Summer 2005
Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Fellowship, held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2003-2004
J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior
Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
2000-2001
Teaching Improvement Program (TIP) Award,
German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1991-92
Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Fellowship, held at Universität Freiburg,
September 1987-December 1988
Research Scholarship for
visits to West German archives, German Academic Exchange Service, 1975
Research Studentship, St. Edmund's House, University of Cambridge,
1973-74
Research Studentship at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg (awarded by
Administrative Service at the
Department:
Chair, International Committee, 2004-present
Chair, Search Committee, Alexander Grass Eminent Scholar
Chair in Jewish Studies, 2001-2003
Chair,
Honors Committee, 1981-87, 1989, 1991, 1994-99
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1981-87, 1989,
1994-99
Member, 1999-2000
Faculty Adviser, Phi Alpha Theta, 1980-84
Faculty Adviser, The History Forum,
1979-83
Executive Committee, 1980-87, 1989, 1994-99
Undergraduate Coordinator, 1980-87, 1989, 1994-99, 2010-11
University and College:
Director, Center for Modern German Studies, 2006-07
Co-director, Center for Modern German Studies, 1995-2006
Provost’s LGBT Concerns Committee, 2004-07
Co-director, UF Summer Holocaust Institute for
Chair,
Dean's Search Committee for Director, Center for Jewish Studies, 1998-99
Chair,
College Sabbatical Committee, 1994
DSR Research Development Awards Selection Committee, 1991, Chair 1995
Director,
UF-Cambridge Program, 1985-87, 2006, 2010-2011
Academic Coordinator, UF-Cambridge Program, 1979-80, 1983-84
Dean's Advisory Committee on
International Studies and Programs, 1983-87, 1989-91
Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committees, 1983-87, 1995-97
Commencement Marshal, 1980, 2005, 2009
Professional Service
Member, State of Florida
Education Commissioner’s Task Force on Holocaust Education, Fall
2000-present
Consultant for US Holocaust
Memorial Museum’s special exhibition, “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals,” 2002
Honorary Consultant, Holocaust Educational Foundation, 1998-present
Director, Holocaust Educational Foundation Eastern European
Study Seminar, June 1997, July 2001, and July 2003
Academic
Coordinator, Holocaust Educational
Foundation Study Seminar in
Expert witness in the first
full British war crimes trial [
Expert witness for the first-ever British war crimes
trial on the Second World War [Regina v. Simon Serafinowicz],
including historical research in Belarus, and testimony at the Old Bailey,
London, October 1996, and the Crown Court, Sheffield, December 1996.
President, and Chair,
Board of Directors, Friends of the German Historical Institute,
Member, Board of Directors, 1999-present
Senior Vice-President, FGHI, 2000-present
Chair, Executive Committee, Friends
of the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., 1994-96.
Humboldtian-on-Campus, American Friends of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, 2008-present
President, Florida Chapter, Alexander von Humboldt
Association of
Board of Directors, Alexander
von Humboldt Association of
Chair, International Standing Working Group on Gender and
the History of Education, International Standing Conference for the History of
Education, 1993-2000
Member, Archives Committee,
Conference Group on Central European History, 1997-2005
Chair, Archives Committee, German Studies Association,
1990-99 Member,
1999-2003
Testified before US Congress,
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Security and Human Rights,
regarding the transfer of the
Secretary-Treasurer, German Studies Association (1,000 members),
1985-87
President,
Alcohol and Temperance History Group, 1992-95
Executive Secretary, Alcohol & Temperance History Group (200
members), 1985-87
Executive Council, Alcohol and Drugs History Society, 2005-present
Executive Committee, Alcohol
and Temperance History Group, 1984-2005
Editorial Boards
Editorial Advisory Board, German History, 1996-present
Editorial Board, German History, Founding Member, 1989-1996
Editorial Board, German Studies Review, 1990-99
Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Founding
Member, 1989-93
Executive Board, The Social History
of Alcohol Review, 1990-2005
Editor,
The Social History of Alcohol Review,
Founding Editor, 1985-90
Editorial Board, Alcohol and Temperance History Group, 1984-85
Recent Papers and Lectures
“Nazi Strategies for Ending Homosexuality: Why
and How the Government and the Police Went About It,” symposium presentation in
conjunction with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition, “The
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals,” Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, April 2005
“Purifying
the Master Race: Nazi Strategies for Ending Homosexuality,” Keynote Lecture for
Holocaust Remembrance Week,
“The Formative Role of
Collecting: Anti-Semitic Postcards from German and Austrian Resorts around
1900,” paper delivered at the International Standing Conference for the History
of Education XXVII, Sydney, Australia, July 2005
“Nazi Policy Toward Homosexuality in Armed Services,” paper delivered at
the XVth Biennial Conference of
the Australasian Association for European History,
“Ask
and Tell: Homosexuals in Hitler’s Armed Services,” Public lecture in
conjunction with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition, “The
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals,” Compass Gay & Lesbian Community Center of
the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, December 2005
“The Persecution of Homosexuals in Hitler’s
Armed Forces.” keynote lecture at the opening of the special exhibit, The
Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany,” at the Florida Holocaust Museum,
St. Petersburg, August 2006
“Spa Anti-Semitism: German
and Austrian Resorts around 1900,”
public lecture for “The Art of Hatred” exhibit, Florida Gulf Coast
University, Fort Myers, October 2006
“Remembering (and Forgetting)
the Holocaust: Memorials and Memorialization,”
Keynote Address, Jacksonville Yom Hashoah Community
Holocaust Commemoration (all 5 synagogues), April 2007
“Sexual Politics in Nazi
Germany,” lecture at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and
“Pink Leadership for the
“Viewing the Holocaust from a different angle:
Holocaust memorials in Europe,” lecture for the UF Center for European Studies’
Europe and You Teacher Workshop: Artistic
Expression of the Holocaust,
“The Dilemma of the Gay Nazis,” Southeast German
Studies Workshop,
“Gay Nazis
on Campus? The Puzzling Evidence from
“Ethnic Difference and Sex Crimes during the Third
Reich,” 2nd annual Southeast German Studies Workshop,
“Afro-German Racial Cleansing: The Hunt for the
‘Rhineland Bastards’”, public lecture at the
“Nazi Persecution of
Homosexuals in Occupied Countries: An Exception from Normal Justice against
Non-Germans?”, Task Force for International
Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, June 2009,
“Punishing Homosexuals in Nazi
“The Gay Threat and the Nazi Imagination,” Sidore Lecture,
“Common Threads in the Nazi
Imagination: The Gay and Jewish Conspiracies,” Yom Ha’Shoah
keynote address, B’nai Israel Jewish Center,
“Homosexuals during the Holocaust,”
presentation at the Stephen S. Weinstein Holocaust Symposium at
“Sterilization and Castration of the Racially Unfit,”
Next Generations of Holocaust Survivors symposium, “Deadly Medicine and
Bio-Ethical Responsibilities in the 21st Century,” Boca Raton
Regional Hospital, November 2010.
“Molding Bullies and Bigots: Hitler’s Miseducation of Germany’s Youth,” Pedagogical Workshop for
teachers, UF College of Education,
February 2011
“Child's Play: The Politicization of Cigarette Cards in the
Third Reich,” paper presented at the Southeast German Studies Consortium
Workshop,