Jeffrey K. Olick On Leave Fall 2009 Office: University of Virginia Sociology Department 543 Cabell Hall P.O. Box 400766 Charlottesville, VA 22904 Faculty ID#: B184 E-mail: Phone: (434) 924-3526 Fax: (434) 924-7028 Curriculum Vitae | Selected Publications | Courses

Jeffrey Olick is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia.   While he has published on a wide variety of topics, his interests focus particularly on collective memory, critical theory, transitional justice, and postwar Germany.  Olick has published three books, and three more are currently in press:

• The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility, Routledge, 2007

• In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat,1943-1949, University of Chicago Press, 2005

• States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection,Edited Volume, Duke University Press, 2003.

Forthcoming in 2010 :

• The Collective Memory Reader (with Vered Vinitsky-Seroussi and Daniel Levy). Oxford University Press.

• Guilt and Defense: Theodor Adorno and the Legacies of Fascism in Postwar Germany. Edited, translated, and introduced (with Andrew J. Perrin). Harvard University Press.

• Before the Public Sphere: The Frankfurt School, Public Opinion, and the Group Experiment of 1950. Edited, translated, and introduced (with Andrew J. Perrin). Harvard University Press.

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Selected Publications

"The Agonies of Defeat: 'Other Germanies' and the Problem of Collective Guilt"

"Times for Forgiveness: An Historical Perspective," in Considering Forgiveness, edited by Aleksandra Wagner with Carin Kuoni. New York: Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2009.

"From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products," in Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, edited by Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nunning. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.

“The Ciphered Transits of Collective Memory: Neo-Freudian Impressions.” Social Research 75, 1, Spring 2008: 1-22.

“Collective Memory: A Memoir and Prospect.” Memory Studies 1, 1, Winter 2008: 23-29.

"Collective Memory." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Holocaust." International Encyclopeida of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Political Sociology." International Enclyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Political Culture." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Popular Culture." Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

"Collective Memory and Nonpublic Opinion: An Historical Note on Methodological Controversy about a Political Problem." Symbolic Interaction, February 2007.

"The Guilt of Nations?" Ethics and International Affairs, Fall 2003: 109-117.

"Social Memory Studies: From 'Collective Memory' to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices," (with Joyce Robbins). Annual Review of Sociology 24, 1998: 105-140.

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