Ann Goldberg Associate Professor of History Ph.D., UCLA, 1992 Fields of Interest: Modern Europe ; Germany , nineteenth–twentieth centuries; social, cultural, gender (951) 827-1975 ann.goldberg@ucr.edu

After spending several years in the theatre in Los Angeles and in New York , Ann Goldberg returned to her native southern California in the early 1980s to study history. She received all of her degrees at the University of California , Los Angeles : B.A. in history (1983), M.A. in history (1985), and Ph.D. in history (1992). She specializes in modern European history. After completing her doctoral studies in 1992, she taught as a lecturer at UCLA and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi before joining the History Department at UCR in Fall 1995. Her research focuses on the cultural and social history of modern Germany , with particular emphasis on women and gender. She is the author of the book, Sex, Religion and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849 (Oxford University Press, 1999). Her recent articles are on populism and antipsychiatry in Imperial Germany; race and gender in the Weimar Republic ; and emigrant letter writing in the 1920s and 30s. Her current book project, Law, Politics, and Honor Codes in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 , analyzes German legal and political culture, with a focus on defamation lawsuits. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Max Planck Institute, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Center for German and European Studies at U.C. Berkeley, and the Goethe Institute.

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