Office: 2542 - Coleman Hall
Phone: 2175816380
Email: seelder@eiu.edu
Office Hours for Fall 2018: MW 2-3 and T 1-3
Courses taught Fall 2019: HIS 1101 (10-10:50 M) and HIS 5820 (7:00pm-9:30pm W)
Ph. D., Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
My research focuses on the social and cultural history of violence and crime in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany. My current book project deals with the campaign against cruelty to children in Germany from the Wilhelmine to the Nazi periods. I am particularly interested in the ways in which child protectionists renegotiated the limits of acceptable violence (physische Gewalt) in German society, as well as challenged the legal and cultural terms of parental authority (elterliche Gewalt). This research has developed out of my first book project, Murder Scenes: Normality, Deviance, and Criminal Violence in Weimar Berlin (The University of Michigan Press, June 2010), which examines the role of murder in Weimar diagnoses of social crisis and urban modernity and demonstrates the interaction of the press, the police, and ordinary Berliners in creating a public culture of policing and surveillance.
"Ein gerechtes Maß an Schmerz. Körperliche Züchtigung, die Subjektivität von Kindern und die Grenzen vertretbarer Gewalt im Kaiserreich und der Weimarer Republik." Translated by Carina Schumann. In Zucht und Ordnung. Gewalt gegen Kinder in historischer Perspektive, Markus Raasch and Stefan Grüner, eds. Duckner & Homblot (forthcoming, 2019)
“A Right to Beat a Child? Corporal Punishment and the Law in Wilhelmine Germany” Central European History 47, no. 1 (March 2014): 54-75.
“’Prostitutes, Respectable Women, and Women from Outside:’ The Carl Grossmann Sexual Murder Case in Postwar Berlin,” in Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany, ed. Richard Wetzell, (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014).
3321 Coleman Hall
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mgworthington@eiu.edu