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Michael Lang

Associate Professor of History
History

My field of research is modern Europe with emphasis in nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectual history. I define Europe within the context of world history and strive for a reflective understanding of the historical practice. I teach the European survey as well as advanced and graduate courses in the history of film, Nazi society and culture, the history of theory, and methodology.

2021

  • Review of Kellie Jones, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), Journal of African American History 106 (Winter): 160-162

2020

  • Review of Robert C. Holub, Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), Journal of Modern History 92 (June): 458- 460

2019

  • Review of Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche鈥檚 Great Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), Journal of Modern History 91 (June): 468-469

2016

  • 鈥淭he Harmony of Interests,鈥 Arnold J. Toynbee, Il mondo oltre le civilt脿, eds. Federico Leonardi and Luca Maggioni (Milano: Edizione Unicopli/The University of Milan), 87-92

2015

  • 鈥淓volution, Rupture, and Periodization,鈥 Cambridge History of the World, Volume 1: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE, ed. David Christian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 84-109

2014

  • 鈥淗istories of Globalizations,鈥 A Companion to Global Historical Thought, eds. Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthi, and Andrew Sartori (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell), 399-411

2013

  • Review of H.L. Wesseling, A Cape of Asia: Essays on European History, (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2011), Reviews and Critical Commentary: A Forum for Research and Commentary on Europe (online)

2011

  • 鈥淕lobalization and Global History in Toynbee,鈥 Journal of World History 22 (December): 747-783

2010

  • 鈥淚t鈥檚 Only a Job: The Social Organization of Indifference in Losey鈥檚 鈥楳r. Klein,鈥欌 Jura Gentium Cinema, 2010
  • Review of John M. Headley, The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), European History Quarterly 40 (July): 525-526

2009

  • 鈥淒avid S. Ware,鈥 African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbothom, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press) (online)

2008

  • Review of Steven L. Isoardi, The Dark Tree: Jazz and Community Arts in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), Journal of African-American History 93 (Spring): 307-309

2006

  • 鈥淕lobalization and Its History,鈥 The Journal of Modern History 78 (December): 899-931

2005

  • 鈥淢odern, Postmodern, World,鈥 Palgrave Advances in World Histories, ed. Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan): 168-188

2004

  • Review of Brian W. Blouet, Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century(London: Reaktion Books, 2001),鈥 Journal of World History 15 (September): 405-407

2003

鈥淕ermany between Nietzsche and Wagner,鈥 Intellectual News: Review of the International Society for Intellectual History 11/12 (Summer): 86-89

鈥淢apping Globalization or Globalizing the Map: Heidegger and Planetary Discourse,鈥 Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 36 (Fall/Winter): 239-250

鈥淕lobalization Discourse and the European Perspective,鈥 Global Dialogue 5,(Summer/Autumn): 118-127

Areas of Expertise

Germany
Intellectual History
Modern European History

Education

PhD, University of California, Irvine, History and Critical Theory
MA, University of California, Irvine, History
BA, University of California, Berkeley, History
Portrait of Michael Lang
Associate Professor of History