History

Jonathan C. Friedman

History

Address:
404 Wayne Hall
West Chester, PA 19382

Phone: 610-436-2201
Fax: 610-436-3069

Carole Marciano
Departmental Secretary
Office: Wayne 404
Phone: 610-436-2201
Fax: 610-436-3069
CMarciano@wcupa.edu

Dr. Wayne Hanley
Departmental Chairperson
Office: Wayne 406
Phone: 610-436-2201
Fax: 610-436-3069
WHanley@wcupa.edu

Dr. Karin Gedge
Social Studies Coordinator
Office: Wayne 416
Phone: 610-436-2971
KGedge@wcupa.edu

Brenda Gaydosh
Acting Graduate Coordinator
Office: Wayne 421
Phone: 610-436-0734
BGaydosh@wcupa.edu

Jonathan Friedman
Director, Holocaust-Genocide Studies
Office: Main 409
Phone: 610-436-2972
JFriedman@wcupa.edu

Jonathan C. Friedman

Professor of History
Director of Graduate Holocaust and Genocide Studies
409 Main Hall
610-436-2972
JFriedman@wcupa.edu

Courses Taught

HIS 332/HIS 545: The Holocaust
HIS 349/HIS 543: Jewish History
HIS 331/HIS 536: 20^th Century Europe
HIS 440: American Jewish History
HIS 368: Gay America
HIS 434: 19th Century Europe
HIS 398/602: Holocaust in Film
HIS 397/HIS 603: Race, Gender, and Class in Film
HIS 399: Public History
HIS 100: Global History Since 1900
HIS 520: Racism, Bigotry, Prejudice
HIS 544: The Final Solution in Europe
HIS 547: A-Socials and the Holocaust

About Me

My main areas of specialization are modern European, modern German, and modern Jewish history, but I have also broadened out from there since finishing my Ph.D. to include LGBT history and the history of music and film. My current research involves a good deal of intersectionality, whether that is the intersection of gay and Jewish identity or the intersection of popular culture and representations of race, religion, class, and gender. I have published seven books on subjects ranging from the Holocaust to gay and Jewish performance, and I have recently co-edited a volume on the history of genocide in film, which should be appearing in 2016. In that spring, I will be at the University of Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies as a visiting scholar, conducting research on the history of the diverse gay Jewish communities of London.