Dr Steven Welch
| Senior Lecturer | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 0223 |
| Email: | s.welch@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 540 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Research
Steven Welch took his undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross and completed post-graduate degrees (MA, M.Phil., Ph.D) in modern European history at Columbia University. Prior to taking up his position at Melbourne he taught at Barnard College, Swarthmore College and the University of California at Irvine. His early published work deals with popular education and political socialisation in nineteenth-century Germany. His current research focuses on the military and social history of the Third Reich. He is presently completing a book on German deserters in WWII as well as a book on Germans prosecuted for the crime of “subversion” in the Third Reich. His teaching interests include modern German history, twentieth-century military history and the comparative study of fascism. In 2003 he won the Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award.
Publications
- Welch, Steven. "Securing the German Domestic Front in the Second World War: Prosecution of Subversion before the People's Court." Australian Journal of Politics and History 53, no. 1 (2007): 44-56
- Welch, Steven and Charles Zika. "German History in Australian Universities: An Overview." zeitenblicke 2, no. 2 (2003)
- Welch, Steven. 'Revolution and Reprisal: Bavarian Schoolteachers in the Revolution of 1848.' History of Education Quarterly 41, no. 1 (2001): 25-57
- Welch, Steven. 'Mischling' Deserters from the Wehrmacht. Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 44 (1999): 273-324
- Welch, Steven. 'Harsh but Just'? German Military Justice in the Second World War: A Comparative Study of the Court-Martialling of German and US Deserters. German History 17 (1999): 369-99
- Welch, Steven. Subjects or Citizens? Elementary School Policy and Practice in Bavaria 1800-1918, University of Melbourne Press, Department of History Monograph Series, Number 26, 1998
- Welch, Steven. 'Our India': Nazi Plans for the East. In Genocide. History and Fictions: historians respond to Helen Demidenko/Darville's The hand that signed the paper, edited by Stephen Wheatcroft, 25-42. Parkville: Dept. of History, University of Melbourne, 1997
Two articles written for the Colloquium 'Famine and Political Killings: Causation, Scale and State Responsibility' can be accessed at the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University website:
"'The Annihilation of Superfluous Eaters': Nazi Plans for and Uses of Famine in Eastern Europe"
Book reviews available on the internet:
- Book review of Christopher MacIntosh's The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria
- Book review of Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Alexander Lassner, eds. The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria: A Reassessment
- Book review of Richard Bosworth's Mussolini published in The Age, June 1, 2002
- Book review of Richard Overy's The Dictators published in The Age, June 26, 2004
- Book review of David Ceserain's Eichmann: His Life and Crimes published in The Age, December 24, 2004
- Book review of Nicholas Stargardt's Witnesses of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis published in The Age, July 9, 2005
- Book review of Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich in Power published in The Age, February 18, 2006
- Book review of Angela Lambert's The Lost Life of Eva Braun published in The Age June 17, 2006
- Book review of Katrin Himmler’s The Himmler Brothers published in The Age on 14 September, 2007
- Book review of Saul Friedländer’s The Years of Extermination. Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 in The Age, 23 December 2007
Teaching
131-101 War, State and Society
131-048 Hitler’s Germany
131-460 Fascist Europe
Supervision
- Rod Beecham, Literature or History? The ‘Myth’ of the First World War, PhD expected 2012
- Samuel Peter Koehne, Nazi Germany as a Moral State?: A Comparative Study of the Tempelgesellschaft and the Korntaler Brüdergemeinde, 1933-1939, PhD expected 2008
- Simone Gigliotti, Travel and Trauma in the Holocaust. Interpreting Narratives of the Deportation Train Journey, PhD completed 1999
- Wayne Geerling, Resistance as High Treason: Juvenile Resistance in Nazi Germany, PhD completed 2001
- Bernard Mees, Sinnbildforschung in Germany, PhD completed 2002
- Michael Kelly, The Failure of the Partisan Dream: Italian Ex-Partisans and Post-Liberation Politics in Piedmont, 1943-1948, PhD completed 2004
- Emily Turner-Graham, "Never Forget that you are a German": Die Brücke, Deutschtum and National Socialism in inter-war Australia, PhD completed 2006
- Greg Burgess, The Refugee Dilemma in Interwar Europe, MA completed 1997
- Adam Usher, An Indigenous Fascism in Britain? Sir Oswald Mosley, The British Union of Fascists and British Society During the Interwar Period, MA completed 1999
- Consuela Catalini, Substituting Power for Principle? The Bergen-Belsen and Dachau War Crimes Trials, MA completed 1999
- Samuel Peter Koehne, Points of Conflict: German National Identity and the Temple Society, MA completed 2004
- Sharon Harding, Female Perpetrators: The Role of Female Nurses in the Nazi Euthanasia Program, MA completed 2006
- Jan Friedel, Stefan Heym and the Place of Literature in the German Democratic Republic. A Struggle between Power and the Spirit, MA completed 2007