Ludwig Decke

Pronouns: he/him/his

Email: decke@wisc.edu

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Advisor: Giuliana Chamedes
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Ludwig Decke

Biography

Trained in German, Jewish, and modern European history, I study how liberal democracies have been grappling with ethnic, religious, and cultural heterogeneity throughout the twentieth century.

Education

M.A. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
B.A. University of Leipzig

Field

  • European History
  • Jewish History

MA Title

  • Fighting for the American Jewish Dream: Morris R. Cohen and Liberal Jewish Postwar Planning during World War II

Working Dissertation Title

  • Jews, the State, and the Fight against Antisemitism in Western Europe (1944-1994)

Selected Publications

  • Review of Tiffany N. Florvil, “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement,” in “Cold War History,” 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2190428.
  • Review of Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam, eds., “Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History,” in “Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung,” vol. 32, no. 6 (2023), pp. 775-777, https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/3325.
  • “A Letter of Refusal: Morris R. Cohen and Oscar I. Janowsky on the Problems of Jewish Peace Studies during World War II” in Mimeo: Blog of the Dubnow Institute, 2022, https://mimeo.dubnow.de/a-letter-of-refusal/.
  • “Ungleiche Weggefährten: Hannah Arendt, Melvin Lasky und der Antitotalitarismus im kulturellen Kalten Krieg,” Dubnow Institute Yearbook 17 (2018) [2020], pp. 117-144, https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666370809.117.
  • “Illiberale Demokratie avant la lettre: Zu Carl Schmitts demokratietheoretischen Überlegungen in der Weimar Republik,” in Konflikt und Konsens: Demokratische Transformation in der Weimarer und Bonner Republik, ed. Sebastian Elsbach and Ronny Noak (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019), pp. 279-294.
  • “Carl Schmitt,” in Handbuch der völkischen Wissenschaften: Akteure, Netzwerke, Forschungsprogramme, ed. Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar and Alexander Pinwinkler (Berlin/Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017), pp. 732-736 (together with Raphael Gross).

Selected Awards

  • Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Fellowship
  • Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Visiting Research Fellowship
  • FU Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Dissertation Fellowship
  • UW-Madison, Early Excellence in Teaching Award (Campus-Wide)
  • American Academy for Jewish Research, Travel Grant
  • Center for Jewish History-Fordham University, Research Fellowship
  • Central European History Society, Research Grant
  • Leo Baeck Institute, Fritz Halbers Fellowship Award
  • HEFNU, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization Fellowship
  • Fulbright, Study Fellowship

Professional Affiliations

  • American Historical Association
  • Association for Jewish Studies
  • Central European History Society
  • German Studies Association

Courses Taught as TA

  • History 120: Europe and the Modern World, 1815 to the Present
  • History 350: The First World War and the Shaping of Twentieth Century Europe
  • History 357: The Second World War

Courses Taught as Instructor

  • History 310: The Holocaust