Department FieldsAnnouncementsProgram Coordinator for UCSB Center for Cold War Studies and International History
2009-2010
Assistant Editor at ABC-CLIO: World History Encyclopedia: Era 8 (1900-1945)
November 2009 to Present
Writer/Editor at ABC-CLIO: World History Encyclopedia
June 2007 to Present
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Modern European History
Graduate Student (ABD)
B.A., California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; M.A., San Francisco State University
Office: HSSB 3223 Hours: N/A
Email: aomendoza@umail.ucsb.edu
Advisor: Harold Marcuse
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I research the memory and reception history related in particular to how societies and individuals view major tragedy and trauma in their national histories. My focus is on aerial bombing campaigns during the Second World War and how these were reflected upon in Britain and Germany. My current research offers a comparative analysis between the Allied aerial bombings of German cities and how the reception and collective memory of these have evolved over time and have shaped contemporary political discourse since the end of the Second World War. Quite often, this memory of victimization is expressed in terms and language that expressly create a level of equivalency with the Holocaust, thereby creating a sense that Germans and Jews suffered equally during the war. I recently advanced to candidacy (ABD) this past year. I am currently in my fourth year of doctoral study and in the process of writing my dissertation.
Dissertation Title- Popular Perceptions of Collateral Damage: The Bombing of Dresden in History and Memory
Examination of the air war over Germany (1940-1945), using the firebombing of Dresden (13-15 February 1945) as a case study, in German memory from 1945 to the present.
Teaching Fields- Modern German History & Memory
Reception History of German Victimization: the Air War, Red Army rape of German women, and the expulsion of the Volksdeutsche; Prussia 1806-1871, Second Reich 1871-1918, Weimar Germany 1918-1933, Nazi Germany 1933-1945, Holocaust History & Memory.
- Modern European History
Antisemitism, French Revolution, British History, Liberalism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Belle Époque, Marxism, Russian Revolution, Stalinism, Interwar Europe, Totalitarianism, Fascism, National Socialism, the Holocaust, Postwar Europe, Decolonization.
- Diplomatic/International & Military History
French Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815, Great Power Diplomacy 1815-1914, First World War 1914-1918, Interwar Diplomacy 1919-1939, Second World War 1937-1945, Cold War 1945-1991, War & Society, Strategic Aerial Bombardment, Total War.
- World History
Macrohistorical development of world civilizations, empires, borderlands, hegemony, metageography, economic & cultural world-systems, biological exchanges, transnational migrations & diasporas, ethnic systems, political ideologies, and globalization.
- Modern U.S. History
Women in American Society, U.S. Civil War & Reconstruction, Gilded Age & Progressive Era, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression & The New Deal, WWII Homefront, McCarthyism, Civil Rights Movements, Great Society, Vietnam War, Watergate, Neoconservatism.
Teaching Assistantships- History 2A: World History: Prehistory to 1000 CE
Fall 2007 with Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
- History 2B: World History: 1000 CE to 1700 CE
Winter 2008 with Pekka Hämäläinen
- History 2C: World History: 1700 CE to Present
Spring 2008 with Harold Marcuse
- History 4B: Western Civilization: 1050 CE to 1715 CE
Winter 2007 with Sharon Farmer
- History 4C: Western Civilization: 1715 CE to Present
Fall 2006 with Erika Rappaport
- History 4C: Western Civilization: 1715 CE to Present
Spring 2007 with Adrienne Edgar
- History 4C: Western Civilization: 1715 CE to Present
Fall 2008 with John Talbott
- History 4C: Western Civilization: 1715 CE to Present
Summer 2009 with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- History 17B: The American People: Sectional Crisis Through Progressivism
Winter 2009 with John Majewski
- History 17C: The American People: World War I to the Present
Spring 2009 with Salim Yaqub
- Women Studies 150: Women in American History and Society
Fall 2004 with Elisabeth Arruda, San Francisco State University
Awards- Graduate Distinguished Scholar Award
San Francisco State University, 2005
- SFSU Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society: Kappa Phi Chapter
San Francisco State University, 2004-05
- SFSU Graduate Equity Fellowship
San Francisco State University, 2003-05
- J. Irving Snetsinger Memorial Award for Academic Achievement in Diplomatic/Political History
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, 2003
- Frederick G. Novy III Award for Western Civilization
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, 2001
Readerships- History 191B: Diplomatic History during the Interwar Period: 1918 to 1945
Winter 2007 and Fall 2008 with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- History 191C: History of the Cold War: 1945 to 1991
Spring 2007 and Winter 2009 with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- History 120: History of the U.S. through Reconstruction
Spring 2005 with Mark Sigmon, San Francisco State University
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