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Faculty Department Chair American Indian History Asian History European History Latin American History Near Eastern & Islamic History U.S. History U.S. West History
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 Janet Ward, Ph.D. Office: Wright Hall, A316 Website: Janet Ward, Ph.D.
Janet Ward, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, is an interdisciplinary scholar of German and comparative urban studies, European cultural history, modernism, visual culture, memory studies, architectural theory, and the German twentieth century, with specific focus on the Weimar and Nazi eras. A recipient of grants from e.g., the ACLS, DAAD, Getty Research Institute, and the NEH, she has published and taught in a wide range of disciplines. Janet Ward’s publications include Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (University of California Press, 2001); German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity (University of Colorado Press, 2000, co-edited with Adrian Del Caro); and Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest (State University of New York Press, 1997, co-edited with Elizabeth Sauer). She has also published over twenty-five articles and essays, such as “Rebuilding Babel: Urban Regeneration in the Modern/Postmodern Age,” in Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950, ed. Richard W. McCormick, Patrizia C. McBride, and Monika Žagar (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 119-30; “Monuments of Catastrophe: Holocaust Architecture in Washington and Berlin,” in Berlin – Washington, 1800 - 2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities, ed. Andreas Daum and Christof Mauch (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 155-200; and “Berlin, The Virtual Global City,” Journal of Visual Culture 3.2 (2004): 239-56. Her current book project, Berlin Borders: Building the Post-Wall Metropolis, places the reunified German capital’s recent history into broader sociological, architectural, historical, and geopolitical contexts. Janet Ward received her Ph.D. in German Studies at the University of Virginia in 1993. From 1993 to 2002 she held positions as Assistant Professor of German Studies and Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she served as interim chair, graduate associate chair, and undergraduate advisor in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, as well as undergraduate advisor of Comparative Literatures/Humanities. In 2002 Janet Ward joined the history faculty at UNLV, where she also served as director of interdisciplinary programs (2002-2004). Her courses at UNLV include HIST 483a/683a (Urban Destruction and Reconstruction), HONS 400 (Metropolis and Modernity), and HIST 728 (History and Memory). She is currently serving as a member of the German Studies Association's Standing Committee on Interdisciplinary Initiatives, and as a member of the GSA's program committee for its 2009 conference.
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