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ALEJANDRO BAER
Curriculum Vitae (February 2015)
Director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
RESEARCH AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Social Memory Studies, Sociology of Media and
Communication, Sociology of Culture and Religion, Qualitative Research
Methodologies, Visual Sociology.
ACADEMIC TRAINING
2013
2003
1997/1998
1995
Habilitation. Sociology. Universität Bayreuth (Germany)
Ph.D. Sociology. Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain).
Dissertation title: “Video Testimony and the Shaping of
Holocaust Public Memory.”
Graduate Studies Program (non-degree). Department of
Communication. University of California, San Diego.
Licenciatura. Sociology / Social Anthropology. Universidad
Complutense Madrid.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2011-2012
Professor of Sociology (Visiting Chair of Qualitative
Methods of Social Research) Institute of Sociology.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtät München.
2009-2011
Assistant Professor, Chair of Sociology of Culture and
Religion (Prof.Dr. Bernt Schnettler), University of Bayreuth,
Germany.
2008- 2009
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology,
Complutense University, Madrid.
2004–2008
Assistant Professor, Department
Complutense University, Madrid.
2003–2004
Post-Doc Fellow, Alcalá de Henares University, Institute of
Mediterranean Studies, Madrid.
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of
Sociology
IV
1999–2003
Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Complutense
University, Madrid.
VISITING POSITIONS
2007-2008
Visiting Scholar,
University, Berlin.
Institute
of
Sociology,
Technical
2002 (summer)
Visiting Researcher, Department of
Communication, New York University.
2001 (October-November)
Visiting Researcher, Fritz Bauer Institute - Study and
Documentation Center on the History and Memory of
the Holocaust, Frankfurt.
2000
Visiting Researcher, Department of Sociology, University
of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Culture
and
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Baer, Alejandro. 2006. Holocausto. Recuerdo y representacion [Holocaust:
Remembrance and Representation]. Madrid: Losada.
Baer, Alejandro. 2005. El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto
[Audiovisual Testimony. Image and memory of the Holocaust]. Madrid: Centro
de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
Jerez, Ariel, Victor Sampedro, and Alejandro Baer. 2000. Medios de comunicación,
consumo Informativo y actitudes políticas en España [Media, News
Consumption and Political Attitudes in Spain]. Madrid: Centro de
Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).
Edited books and Journal special Issues
Schnettler, Bernt and Alejandro Baer, eds. 2013. Visuelle Soziologie [Visual Sociology].
Special issue of the journal Soziale Welt (1-2).
Valles, Miguel S., Louise Corti, Maria Tamboukou, and Alejandro Baer, eds. 2011.
Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods. An Introduction to
the FQS Special Issue. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative
Social Research 12(3).
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Devillard, Marie José, and Alejandro Baer, eds. 2010. Antropologia y derechos
humanos: multiculturalismo, retos y resignificaciones [Anthropology and
Human Rights: Multiculturalism, Challenges and Resignificance]. Special issue of
the journal Revista de Antropología Social (18).
Knoblauch, Hubert, Alejandro Baer, Eric Laurier, Sabine Petschke, and Bernt
Schnettler, eds. 2008. Visual Methods. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung /
Forum: Qualitative Social Research 9(3).
Israel Garzón, Jacobo, and Alejandro Baer, eds. 2007. España y el Holocausto.
Historia y testimonios [Spain and The Holocaust. History and Testimonies].
Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones.
Israel Garzón, Jacobo, Sultana Wahnon, Jon Juaristi, Alejandro Baer, and Federico
Zukierman, eds. 2005. El estigma imborrable. Reflexiones sobre el nuevo
antisemitismo [The Indelible Stigma: Reflections on the New Antisemitism].
Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones.
Articles in Journals
Baer, Alejandro and Natan Sznaider. Forthcoming. “Ghosts of the Holocaust in
Franco’s Mass Graves. Cosmopolitan Memories and the Politics of Never
Again.” Memory Studies 5(2).
Baer, Alejandro. 2012. “Memoria de Auschwitz y Antisemitismo Secundario, y tres tesis
sobre el prejuicio anti-judío en la España actual [Memory of Auschwitz and
Secondary Antisemitism, and Three Thesis on the Anti-Jewish prejudice in
Present-day Spain].” Constelaciones: Revista de teoría crítica (4):99–118.
Schnettler, Bernt, and Alejandro Baer. 2013. “Perspektiven einer Visuellen Soziologie.
Schlaglichter und blinde Flecken einer aktuellen soziologischen Debatte
[Perspectives of Visual Sociology. Highlights and Blind Spots of a Contemporary
Sociological Debate].” Visuelle Soziologie. Special issue of the journal Soziale
Welt (1-2):7–15.
Baer, Alejandro and Paula Lopez. 2012. “The Blind Spots of Secularization: A
Qualitative Approach to the Study of Antisemitism in Spain.” European
Societies 14(2):203–21.
Baer, Alejandro. 2011. “The Voids of Sepharad: The Memory of the Holocaust in
Spain.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 12(1):95–120.
Baer, Alejandro. 2011. “Zwischen Europäisierung und Verdrängung. Erinnerung an
den Holocaust in Spanien [Between Europaization and Repression: Memory of
the Holocaust in Spain].” Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und
Kultur 5(2):97–111.
Baer, Alejandro. 2011. “Oma Clemens Reise nach Argentinien. Eine
autobiographische Erzählung über Spanien als Fluchtweg und Falle (Einleitung)
[Oma Clemens Journey to Argentina. An Account on Spain as Escape Route
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and Trap (Introduction)].” Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und
Kultur 5(2):112–21.
Devillard, Marie José and Alejandro Baer. 2010. “Antropologia y derechos humanos:
multiculturalismo, retos y resignificaciones [Anthropology and Human Rigths:
Multiculturalism, Challenges and Resignifications].” Revista de Antropologia
Social 25–51.
Baer, Alejandro. 2009. “Spain’s Jewish Problem. From the ‘Jewish-Bolchevik
Conspiracy to the ’Nazi-Zionist" State” edited by Benz Wolfgang. Jahrbuch für
Antisemitismusforschung (18):89–110.
Ferrándiz, Francisco, and Alejandro Baer. 2008. “Digital Memory: The Visual
Recording of Mass Grave Exhumations in Contemporary Spain.” Forum
Qualitative Sozialforschung / Special Issue Visual Sociology 9(3). Retrieved
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1152).
Baer, Alejandro. 2007. “Tanques contra ciedras. La imagen de Israel En España
[Tanks Against Stones: Israel’s Image in Spain].” Documentos de Trabajo (DT),
Real Instituto Elcano. Retrieved
(http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/ARI2007/ARI742007_Imagen_Israel_Espa%F1a.pdf).
Valles, Miguel, and Alejandro Baer. 2005. “Qualitative Social Research in Spain: Past,
Present and Future. A Portrait.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum:
Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal] 6(3). Retrieved
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/viewArticle/15/31).
Baer, Alejandro, and Francisco Sánchez Pérez. 2004. “La metodología biográfica
audiovisual. El proyecto ‘Survivors of the Shoah’ [The Visual Biographic
Methodology. On the Project Survivor of the Shoah Visual History
Foundation].”Empiria (7):35–56.
Baer, Alejandro. 2004. “De memoria judía a memoria universal. El Holocausto y la
globalización del recuerdo [From Jewish to Universal Memory. The Holocaust
and the Globalization of Remembrance].” Anthropos (203):76–94.
Baer, Alejandro, and Federico Zukierman. 2004. “Nuevo antisemitismo, viejos
estigmas  : caricaturas y viñetas de la prensa española sobre el conflicto israelípalestino (2000-2003) [New Antisemitism, Old Stigma: Caricatures and Cartoons
on the Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Spanish Press].” Raíces (58):25–38.
Sampedro, Victor, and Alejandro Baer. 2003. “El recuerdo como olvido y el pasado
extranjero. Padres e hijos ante la memoria histórica mediatizada [Memory as
Oblivion and the Foreign Past: Parents, Children and Mediatized Memory].”
Revista de Estudios de Juventud (Special Issue “25 años de Constitución”):93–
108.
Baer, Alejandro, and Igor Sádaba. 2003. “Tecnologias de la memoria: la
transformacion del recuerdo colectivo en la sociedad de la información
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[Technologies of Memory: Collective Remembering in the Information
Society].” Cuadernos de Realidades Sociales (53):163–84.
Baer, Alejandro. 2002. “La representación del Holocausto y sus límites [The
Representation of the Holocaust and its Limits].” Raíces (50-51):15–19.
Baer, Alejandro. 2001. “Consuming History and Memory through Mass Media
Products.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 4(4):491–501.
Baer, Alejandro. 1999. “Postsionismo vs. nacionalismo mesiánico. Religion y política
en el Israel de los 90 [Post-Zionism vs. Messianic Nationalism: Religion and
Politics in Israel in the Nineties].” Viento Sur (45):21–26.
Baer, Alejandro. 1999. “Imagen, memoria e industria cultural [Image, Memory and
Cultural Industry]. ” Arte, Individuo y Sociedad (11):113–21.
Baer, Alejandro. 1997. “Oriente Medio: Mito y realidad [The Middle East: Myth and
Reality].” El Viejo topo (109):34–38.
Book Chapters
Schnettler, Bernt, Alejandro Baer, and Marlen Rabl. 2015, forthcoming.
“Videographic Analysis of Religious and Secular Rituals: Examples from a Study
on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.” in Seeing Religion: Toward
a Visual Sociology of Religion, edited by Roman Williams. London: Routlege.
Baer, Alejandro, and Natan Sznaider. 2015, forthcoming. “Los Desaparecidos del
Holocausto español. Memorias transnacionales y políticas del ‘Nunca más [The
Disappeared of the Spanish Holocaust. Transnational memories and the politics
of Never Again].’”in Las víctimas: precio necesario, edited by José A. Zamora.
Madrid: Trotta.
Schnettler, Bernt, and Alejandro Baer. 2015, forthcoming. “Zur Soziologie des
Zeitzeugen. Erinnerung zwischen Subjektivität, Sozialität und kommunikativer
Konstruktion.” in Wer oder was handelt? Zum Subjektverständnis der
Hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie, edited by A. Poferi and N. Schröer.
Wiesbaden: VS-Springer.
Baer, Alejandro. 2014. “Between ‘Just Punishment’ and ‘Unthinkable Fascist Crimes’:
Reactions to Kristallnacht in Civil War Spain.”in Kristallnacht: Violence, Memory,
and History, edited by Nathan Wilson and Colin McCullough. London:
Routlege.
Baer, Alejandro. 2013. “Between Old and New Antisemitism. The Image of Jews in
Present-Day Spain.” Pp. 95–117 in Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives,
edited by Alvin Rosenfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Schnettler, Bernt, Hubert Knoblauch, and Alejandro Baer. 2012. “Videoanálisis
interpretativo de situaciones sociales: etnografía, análisis secuencial y
hermenéutica” edited by Millán Arroyo and Igor Sádaba. 251–70.
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Baer, Alejandro, and Bernt Schnettler. 2012. “Holocaust-Erinnerungskultur als
Wissensnetzwerk: Zwischen globaler Wertegemeinschaft und universaler
Symbolkultur [Holocaust Remembrance Culture as Network of Knowledge:
Between Global Community of Values and Universal Symbolic Culture].” Pp.
633–48 in Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen,Verhandlungen des 35.
Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt 2010, edited by
Hans-Georg Soeffner. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
Baer, Alejandro. 2011. “Dátiles del mar muerto y tanques judíos. Apuntes sobre la
imagen de Israel en España [Dates from the Dead Sea and Jewish Tanks. Notes
on the Image of Israel in Spain].” in Israel, siglo XXI: tradición y vanguardia,
edited by Alfredo Hidalgo Lavié and Jacqueline Tobiass. La Coruña: Netbiblo.
Ferrándiz, Francisco, and Alejandro Baer. 2011. “Violencia política y memoria digital:
las exhumaciones de fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) en la
España contemporánea [Political Violence and Digital Memory: Exhumations
of Mass Graves from the Civil War (1936-1939) in Contemporary Spain].” in
Territorios, identidades y violencias, edited by Yanet Segovia. Manizales
(Colombia): Universidad de los Andes.
Baer, Alejandro. 2010. “La memoria social: breve guía para perplejos [Social
Memory: a Guide for the Perplexed].” Pp. 131–48 in Memoria - Política –
Justicia. En diálogo con Reyes Mate, edited by J.A. Zamora and A. Sucasas.
Madrid: Trotta.
Schnettler, Bernt, Alejandro Baer, and Darius Zifonun. 2010. “Transnationale
Gedächtniskultur? Ansätze einer ländervergleichenden Performanzanalyse von
Erinnerungsritualen am Beispiel des 27. Januars [Transnational Memory?
Appraisal on a Comparative Study of Remembrance Rituals taking the
example of January 27th].” in Unsichere Zeiten. Herausforderungen
gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34. Kongresses der
Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Jena 2008, edited by Hans-Georg
Soeffner. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
Baer, Alejandro and Paula Lopez. 2010. “Israel en el callejón del gato. El conflicto de
Gaza y Líbano de 2006 en el humor gráfico español [Israel in the Alley of
Mirrors: The Gaza and Lebanon Conflicts of 2006 in Spanish Cartoons].” in Israel
en los medios de comunicación españoles: (2006 - 2009)  ; entre el estereotipo y
la difamación, edited by Estrella Israel. Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones.
Baer, Alejandro. 2009. “Zwischen Aufhetzung und Verurteilung. Die geteilte Rezeption
der Novemberpogrome im Spanien des Bürgerkriegs [Between Incitement and
Condemnation: The November Pogroms of 1938 in Civil War Spain].” in Die
Novemberpogrome 1938. Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors.
Baer, Alejandro, and Bernt Schnettler. 2009. “Hacia una metodología cualitativa
audiovisual. El video como instrumento de investigación social [Towards an
Audiovisual Qualitative Methodlogy. Video as an Instrument for Social
Research].” Pp. 149–73 in Investigación cualitativa en ciencias sociales, edited
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by Millán Arroyo Menéndez and Aldo Merlino. Buenos Aires: Cengage
Learning.
Finkel, Lucila, Pilar Parra, and Alejandro Baer. 2008. “La entrevista abierta en la
investigación social [The Open Interview in Social Research].” Pp. 127–54 in
Prácticas de investigación social cualitativa, edited by Angel Gordo and
Araceli Serrano. Madrid: Pearson.
Sabanoglu, Albert, and Alejandro Baer. 2006. “Israel en los medios españoles.
Camino a la normalización? [Israel in the Spanish Media. On the Way to
Normalization?]” Pp. 79–95 in España Israel. 20 años de relaciones., edited by
Jacobo Israel Garzón. Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones.
Madariaga, José María García de, Pablo Francescutty, Paula López, and Alejandro
Baer. 2005. “La ‘noche de los móviles ’: medios, redes de confianza y
movilización juvenile [The Night of Cell Phones: Media, Networks and Youth
Mobilization].”Pp. 63–83 in 13-M Multitudes Online, edited by Victor Sampedro.
Madrid: La Catarata.
Zukierman, Federico and Alejandro Baer. 2005. “Israel y el judaísmo en el humor
gráfico español [Israel and Judaism in Spanish Cartoons].” Pp. 71–108 in El
estigma imborrable. Reflexiones sobre el nuevo antisemitismo, edited by
Jacobo Israel Garzón, Alejandro Baer, Sultana Wahnon, and Jon Juaristi.
Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones.
Book reviews
Baer, Alejandro. 2014. “Creating the Witness. Documenting Genocide on Film, Video,
and the Internet. By Leshu Torchin. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press.” Law
& Society Review 48(1):231–33.
Baer, Alejandro. 2012. “The Holocaust in Spanish Memory: Historical Perceptions and
Cultural Discourse. By Susanne Zepp and Antonio Gòmez López-Quiñones
(eds.). Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 46(1):170–72.
Baer, Alejandro. 2005. “Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations. By Neal Sokol. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press.” Raíces (61):64–65.
Baer, Alejandro. 2003. “El caso Finklstein y la ‘industria’ del Holocausto [La industria
del Holocausto. By Norman Finkelstein. Madrid: Siglo XXI].” Raíces (54):33–36.
Baer, Alejandro. 2000. “Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the Final
Solution. By Saul Friedländer. Harvard University Press: Cambridge and London.”
Isegoría (23):265–68.
Op-Eds in daily newspapers
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Baer, Alejandro et.al. “Minneapolis group 'plays' Nazi: Sorry, it's no trifle”, Minneapolis
Star Tribune, March 19.
Baer, Alejandro. 2013. “A Nazi in Our Midst? Pursuit of Justice Must Persist.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 17.
Baer, Alejandro. 2012. “Remembering Kristallnacht: It Starts with Apathy.” Minneapolis
Star Tribune, November 9.
Baer, Alejandro, and Robin Stoller. 2010. “A Study to Deny a Problem.” Jerusalem
Post, October 18.
Baer, Alejandro. 2008. “La España en guerra ante la Kristallnacht [Spain at War and
the Kristallnacht].” El País, November 11.
Baer, Alejandro. 2006. “No dibujarás...[You Shall Not Draw...] (on the Muhammad
cartoons debate).” ABC, March 7.
Other Publications
Baer, Alejandro. 2011. “Zur Judenrettung Spanischer Diplomaten: Fakten, Mythen
und Erinnerungspolitik [On the Rescue of Jews by Spanish Diplomats: Facts,
Myths and Memory Politics],” Berlin. Retrieved (http://www.konferenzholocaustforschung.de/wpcontent/uploads/2011/03/Vortrag_Baer.pdf).
Baer, Alejandro. 2009. Visas for Freedom. Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust.
Exhibition catalogue. Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Baer, Alejandro. 2009. “Antisemitism in Spain. Old or New?” European Forum on
Antisemitism. Retrieved (http://www.european-forum-onantisemitism.org/berlin-alert/view/article/exclusive-antisemitism-in-spain-old-ornew/).
Baer, Alejandro. “El Método Biográfico [The Biograhpic Method]. E-Learinng
Material.” On-line Program for the Degree of Sociolgy and Social Work,
Universidad de la Rioja.
Baer, Alejandro. 2003. “Los judíos en el humor gráfico [The Jews in Political
Cartoons].” Lateral, Revista de cultura (107).
Baer, Alejandro. 2002. “Imagen y memoria: audiovisuales sobre Desaparecidos en el
Cono Sur [Image and Memory: Films on the Desaparecidos in the Southern
Cone].” Retrieved (www.ari-peru.org)
July 1992-October 1994. Regular contributions for the Argentinian cultural weekly
magazine La Maga.
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Documentary Films
2002. Oasis en tierra extraña (on Ecuadorian immigration in Madrid). AIRE
COMUNICACION y Colectivo Universitario de Producción Audiovisual en
Ciencias Sociales. Documentary, 40 min. Research and production.
1999. Epistemología y Metodología Audiovisual [Audiovisual Epistemology and
Methodology]. Didactic film, 25 min. Research, Script and Production.
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2014
Public Sociology Award. Dept. of Sociology, University of Minnesota.
2014
Institute for Advanced Studies (U.Minnesota) Grant - Collaborative “Reframing
Mass Violence. Human Rights and Social Memory in Post-Communist Europe.
Conveners: Alejandro Baer, Barbara Frey, Joachim Savelsberg.
2013
Institute for Advanced Studies (U.Minnesota) Grant - Collaborative “Reframing
Mass Violence. Human Rights and Social Memory in Latin America and
Southern Europe. Conveners: Alejandro Baer, Barbara Frey, Joachim
Savelsberg.
2012
University of Bayreuth International Club Award for International Scholarship.
1999
4-Year PhD Scholarship - Beca para la Formación de Personal Investigador
(FPI). Spanish Ministry of Education.
1997
1-Year Graduate Studies Scholarship. University of California / Universidad
Complutense Madrid.
1993
Erasmus Scholarship, University of Leipzig (academic year 1993/1994).
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
(Current projects as research team member)
2013-2015 The Past Below Earth: Exhumations and memory politics in contemporary
Spain in transnational and comparative perspective. Principal Investigator: Prof.
Francisco Ferrándiz (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).
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(Finished projects)
2011-2013 The Politics of Memory in Spain: Analysis of the impact of Civil War
exhumations in the early years of the twenty-first century. Principal Investigator: Prof.
Francisco Ferrándiz (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).
2009-2012 Cross-Cultural Comparison of Holocaust Remembrance Rituals
in Germany and Spain– A Case Study on January 27th.
Joined project with Prof. Bernt Schnettler (Universität Bayreuth), Prof. Dariuš Zifonun
(Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin), and Prof. Esmeralda Ballesteros (Universidad
Complutense Madrid).
2007-2010 Philosophy after the Holocaust III [Filosofía después del Holocausto III:
Vigencias de sus lógicas perversas]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science, Spain. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Manuel Reyes Mate Rupérez(Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).
2008-2011 Qualitative Video analysis in Social Research. Principal Investigators:
Alejandro Baer and Bernt Schenttler, Funded by the Deutsche Akademische
Austausch Dienst (DAAD) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
2006-2007 Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust. Research and production of the
exhibition and exhibition book. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2001-2002 Ecuadorian immigration and public spaces in Madrid. [Inmigración
ecuatoriana y espacios públicos de Madrid«). Spanish Agency for Development and
International Cooperation (AECID) and Cáritas Spain. Principal Investigators: A. Baer,
P. Francescutti, A.Jerez.
2002-2003 Survey Evaluation on the Graduate Program at the Institute of Sociology
and Political Science, Complutense University Madrid [Evaluación de la oferta y
calidad de los estudios de Tercer Ciclo, UCM], Complutense University Madrid.
2006-2008 The Construction of the Event: the Historical Discourse of the Spanish Press
on the March 11 Terrorist Attacks. [La construcción del acontecimiento: el discurso
histórico de la prensa española frente a los atentados del 11 de marzo]. Funded by
the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Spain Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.
Jorge Lozano Hernández (Universidad Complutense Madrid).
2005-2008 Philosophy after the Holocaust II: Memory and Justice II, [Filosofía después
del Holocausto III: Justicia y Memoria, financiado por el Ministerio de Educación y
Ciencia, España]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Spain.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Manuel Reyes Mate Rupérez (Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas).
2005-2007 Politics, Information and Citizenship during Elections. [Política, información
y ciudadanía en campaña electoral] Funded by the Ministry of Education and
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Science, Spain. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Enric Saperas Lapiedra (Universidad
Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid).
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
2005 Qualitative Interviews in Social Research: Development of Pedagogical
Materials. Proyecto Innovación y Mejora de la Calidad Docente 2005/321,
Complutense University, Madrid. (Group Project: Dept. Sociología IV).
1999 Teaching Discussion Group Methodology: Audiovisual Materials. Proyecto de
Innovación Educativa PIE 99/19, Complutense University, Madrid. (Leading Professor:
Miguel S. Valles).
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Minnesota
Fall Semester 2014
SOC 4090/GLOS 4910 Never Again! Memory and Politics after Genocide
Spring Semester 2014
HCOL 3807 Political Reconciliation, Justice and Memory (co-taught
with Prof. Guisan)
SOC 5090/GLOB 5900 Reframing Mass Violence. Human Rights and Social
Memory in Latin America and Southern Europe (1 credit course. Co-facilitaded
with Prof. Frey and Prof. Forcinito)
Fall Semester 2013
SOC 8890 Advanced Research Methods. Qualitative Data Analysis
Spring Semester 2013
SOC 4090 Mass Media and Society
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (Courses taught in German except where otherwise indicated)
(2011/2012)
Ethnographic Field Work, Jews in Europe & Modernity. Sociological Perspectives,
Methods in Sociological Memory Research, Research Workshop of the Chair in
Qualitative Methods, Introduction to Qualitative Social Research Methodology,
Visual Methods in Empirical Social Research, Antisemitism: Theories and Research
(English), Research Colloquium of the Chair in Qualitative Methods.
University of Bayreuth (Germany) (Courses taught in German except where otherwise indicated) (20092011)
Spanish society and culture. Introduction to Social Structure and Cultural Analysis
(with Bernt Schnettler), Jews in Modern Europe: A Sociology of Culture, Introduction
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to the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences (with Stefan Kurth), Workshop on
Empirical Social Research, Antisemitism: Theories and Research (English), Introduction
to Sociology of Culture, Workshop on Empirical Social Research, Emile Durkheim and
the Durkheim-School, Workshop on Empirical Social Research, Introduction to the
Study of Religion in the Social Sciences (with Stefan Kurth), Workshop on Empirical
Social Research, Collective Memory and Memory Culture: Theories, debates and
Methods, Jews in Europe & Modernity. Sociological Perspectives.
Complutense University Madrid (Spain) (Courses taught in Spanish)
Introduction to Social Anthropology, Material Culture and Audiovisual
Methodologies, (Master of Social Science Methodology) (with Bernt Schnettler), The
Ethnographic Method, (MA in Social Science Methodology), The Survey: Theory and
Practice, Quantitative Methods in Social Research, Introduction to Statistics,
Quantitative Methods in Social Research, (Degree in Sociology), Advanced Methods
of Social Research,
Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Madrid Campus) (Courses taught in Spanish) (2003/2004)
Methods in Market Research
American University, (Madrid Program) (2002/2003) Terrorism and the Media
University of California San Diego (UCSD) (1997/1998)
Spanish as Foreign Language (Language Center, Department of Linguistics, University
of California San Diego). Cinema in Latin America (Teaching Assistant, Department
of Communication, University of California San Diego).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Occasional reviewer for the following Journals, Publishers and Funding Institutions
Constelaciones. Revista de Teoría Crítica (Madrid)
Papers. Revista de Sociologia (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona).
Política y Sociedad. Revista de Ciencia Política y Sociología (Madrid)
Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea (Madrid) .
Theory, Culture and Society (London).
Law and Society Review
Empiria: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales« (Madrid).
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva, (ANEP) (Spain).
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Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship Program, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum.
HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area).
Indiana University Press
Editorship of Journals / Book Series
Member of the Russel Sage Foundation Rose Series Editorial Board (2015-2018).
Editorial Committee Member, Papeles del CEIC (Centro de Estudios sobre la
Identidad Colectiva, Spain).
Scientific Committee Member, Clepsidra Clepsidra. Revista Interdisciplinaria de
Estudios sobre Memoria
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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American Sociological Association
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie.
o Sektion Wissenssoziologie.
European Sociological Association (ESA).
o Member of the Research Network on Ethnic Relations, Racism and
Antisemitism.
o Member of the Research Network Sociology of Religion,
Colegio Nacional de Licenciados en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología.
Department/Center Affiliations
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota
Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota
Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota
GRADUATE
ADVISEES
STUDENT
EXAMINING
COMMITTEES
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Ph.D. Committee member:
Wahutu Siguru (Dept. of Sociology), Yagmur Karakaya (Dept. of Sociology), Erma
Nezirevic (Dept. Spanish and Portuguese), Paula Cuellar (Dept. of History.)
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Thesis advisor:
- Isabel Richter (Ludwig Maximilans Universität München) (Diplom), 2013
- Rosa-Auria Munté Ramos, PhD., 2012.
- Christian Uhrig (co-advisor), MA, 2011.
- Diana Marcela Cañón, MA, 2004.
- Isabel Pla Aguilar , MA 2005.
- Noemí Freijanes, MA 2006.
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