Andrea Sinn
Associate Professor of History and Director of International & Global Studies
Department: History and Geography
Email: asinn@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-6462
Professional Expertise
Brief Biography
Dr. Sinn is a historian of modern Germany with specialities in Jewish history deeply engaged in debates concerning the Third Reich and the immediate post-Holocaust period.
At Elon, Dr. Sinn teaches a variety of courses in modern German and Jewish history, including a course on Fascism and Propaganda and The History of the Holocaust. Since the fall of 2017, she has been director of Elon's Jewish Studies Program. As of the summer of 2023, she is also director of Elon's interdisciplinary International and Global Studies Program and participates in the interdisciplinary COR course offerings. From 2019 to 2023, she was the Stella S. and John C. O’Briant Developing Professor of History. Her scholarship focuses on war and social change in modern Germany, notably the 20th century.
News & Notes
Education
2012 Ph.D. Modern History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
2006 Master of Arts, Modern History, Medieval History and Religious Studies,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, GermanyLeadership Positions
Director, International and Global Studies, Elon University, since June 2023
Coordinator, Jewish Studies Program, Elon University, since June 2017
Grants Awarded
“Hamburg Stipendium” – Writing In Residence, Fellowship funded by the Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGdJ) and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Hamburg/Germany, 2025
Honorary Fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich/Germany, 2021
Publications
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Biographical Research in the Digital Age – Introduction,” with Björn Siegel, Pardes 30 (2024): 17–30.
“Vom jüdischen (Über-)Leben im Deutschland nach dem Holocaust: Karl Marx und die Jüdische Allgemeine,“ NURINST 2024: Beiträge zur deutschen und jüdischen Geschichte, 85–102.
“Transatlantic Mediators or Scholars Abroad? The German Studies Professorship Program of the DAAD in North America,” in German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945, Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. Jarausch, eds. (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2024): 43–62.
“Jüdisches Leben in der alten Bundesrepublik,” Informationen zur Politischen Bildung Heft 348: Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland nach 1945 (2021): 12–23. https://www.bpb.de/izpb/341609/juedisches-leben-in-der-bundesrepublik.
“Returning to Stay? Jews in East and West Germany after the Holocaust,” Central European History 53, 2 (2020): 393–413. doi: 10.1017/S0008938920000163.
“Educating for Global Civic Participation and a Career: German Studies in the 21st Century,” with Janelle Papay Decato, Evan Gatti, Anthony Hatcher, Derek Lackaff, Kristin Lange, and Scott Windham, in Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education, William Moner, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, and Phillip Motley, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), 177–189.
“We Have the Right to Exist Here: Jewish Politics and The Challenge of Wiedergutmachung in Post-Holocaust Germany,” in Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany, Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng, eds. (New Brunswick/Newark/London: Rutgers University Press, 2020), 30–47.
Books
Jüdische Politik und Presse in der frühen Bundesrepublik (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014). [Jewish Politics and Press in the Early Federal Republic].
“Und ich lebe wieder an der Isar:” Exil und Rückkehr des Münchner Juden Hans Lamm (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2008). [Hans Lamm – The Story of a German Jew between Exile and Return].
Edited Book and Special Issue
“Through Their Eyes…” – Biographical Research in the Digital Age, with Björn Siegel, eds. PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. 30 (2024).
German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945, with Andreas Heusler (Lanham: Lexington Books, hardcover 2022/paperback 2023).
“Landscapes of the Uprooted: Displacement in Postwar Europe,” Special Issue, edited with Adam R. Seipp, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 32, 1 (2018).
Die Erfahrung des Exils: Vertreibung, Emigration und Neuanfang – Ein Münchner Lesebuch, with Andreas Heusler (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015).
Awards
Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Elon College, the College of Arts & Sciences, Elon University, 2021