CURRICULUM VITA

 

Dr. Larry L. Ping, Professor of History, Tenured
Southern Utah University
Cedar City , UT 84720
(435) 586-5457
email:   ping@suu.edu

Ph.D.:

University of Oregon
Modern Germany, Greek and Roman history, Europe Since 1789,
British history and German literature
Ph.D., June 1994
THESIS:   “Gustav Freytag and the Prussian Gospel:   Novels, Liberalism, and History.”

Publications:

Gustav Freytag and the Prussian Gospel:   Novels, Liberalism, and History. Oxford and Bern:   Peter Lang, 2006.  North American Studies in Nineteenth Century German Literature, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Series Editor.

Articles:

“The Destruction of the Jews was Politically Irrational.”   In History in Dispute:  Vol. 11, The Holocaust.   Tandy McConnell & Tabitha Sparks (eds).  Gale Press. (2003)
“Was the Progressive Isolation of the Jews Part of an Intentional Strategy to Annihilate Them or Did One Step Lead to Another by a “Twisted Road” to Auschwitz?”   In History in Dispute: Vol. 11, The Holocaust.   Tandy McConnell & Tabitha Sparks (eds).   Gale Press.   (2003)
“Gustav Freytag.”   In Encyclopedia of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice and Persecution.   Richard Levy, ed., ABC Clio (2004)
“Soll und Haben.”   In Encyclopedia of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice and Persecution.   Richard Levy, ed., ABC Clio (2004)
“Gustav Freytag and the Prussian Gospel:   Liberalism and History.” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. 76, 1999.
The “Swayback Maru” and the “Grey Ghost”:   Utah Naval Veterans Recall Iwo Jima.   Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. 77, 2000.

Reviews:

Blair R. Holmes and Alan F. Keele.   When Truth Was Treason:  German Youth Against Hitler.  University of Illinois Press, 1995.  German Studies Review, Vol. XX, Number 3, October 1997.
Geoffrey Wawro.   The Austro-Prussian War:   Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866.   Cambridge U. Press, 1996.  German Studies Review, Vol. XX, Number 4, March 1998.
C.J. Bartlett.   Peace, War And The European Powers, 1814-1914.   St. Martin's Press. 1996. German Studies Review, Vol. XXI, Number 2, May 1998.
Paul Kemp.   U-Boats Destroyed:   German Submarine Losses in the World Wars.  Annapolis :   Naval Institute Press, 1997.   German Studies Review, Vol. XXII, Number 3, October 1999.
Joel S.A. Hayward.   Stopped at Stalingrad:   The Luftwaffe and Hitler’s Defeat in the East.   German Studies Review, Vol. XXIII, Number 2, May 2000.
Greg Eghigian.   Making Security Social:   Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany).  Ann Arbor, MI:   University of Michigan Press, 2000.   German Studies Review, Vol. XXIV, Number 2, October 2001.
Mary Lindemann.   Health and Healing in Eighteenth Century Germany.  The Eighteenth Century:   A Current Bibliography:    Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
John S. Westerlund.   Arizona’s War Town:   Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II.   Tucson:   U. of Arizona Press, 2003.   Utah Historical Quarterly, Summer, 2004.

Previous Distinguished Faculty Honor Lecture:

“Culture of Murder, Culture of Complicity:   Anti-Semitism and the Origins of the Holocaust.”   Southern Utah University Faculty Honor Lecture.   December 4, 1997