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Jeffrey K. Olick
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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 is author or editor of six books, including:
- The Collective Memory Reader (with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Daniel Levy). Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany. Edited, translated, and introduced (with Andrew J. Perrin). Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany. Edited, translated, and introduced (with Andrew J. Perrin). Harvard University Press, in press.
- 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.
A seventh, The Sins of The Fathers: Governing Memory in The Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1995 is under revision, and will appear in the University of Chicago Press series, Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning.
His work has been translated into Spanish, German, Estonian, Hungarian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Selected Publications
"The Agonies of Defeat: 'Other Germanies' and the Problem of Collective Guilt"
“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.
"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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