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Department of Germanic Languages
University of North Carolina
438 Dey Hall, CB# 3160
Chapel Hill NC 27599

Phone:	919-966-1642
Fax:	919-962-3708
Email:	german@unc.edu

David Pike
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EDUCATION:

1978: Stanford University, Ph.D. in German Studies (minor in Russian)

1976-77: Moscow State University, USSR

1974-75: University of Frankfurt, West Germany

1973: Portland State University, M.A. in German

1972: Portland State University, B.A. in German

1971-72: University of Stuttgart, West Germany

TEACHING:

1993-96: John B. Caroll Distinguished Professor of Germanic Language,University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1988 - : Professor of German, UNC-CH

1984-88: Associate Professor of German, UNC-CH

1980-83: Assistant Professor of German, UNC-CH

MAJOR COMPETITIVE GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS:

1995: Volkswagen-Stiftung, Hannover, Germany. Five-year fellowship.

1980-95: Various University Research Council grants

1991: American Council of Learned Societies (Eastern European research fellowship,
spring 1991)

1991: International Research and Exchanges Board - Soviet Academy of Sciences, 3 months in Moscow, USSR (canceled due to collapse of the Soviet Union).

1989: International Research and Exchanges Board, 3 months in the German Democratic Republic, East Berlin

1987: Pogue Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1984: International Research and Exchanges Board, 4 months in the German Democratic Republic, East Berlin

1983: German Studies Association book prize for German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945

1983: Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, Council of Graduate Schools in the United States)

1979-80: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Stanford University

1979: International Research and Exchanges Board, 6 months in the German Democratic Republic, East Berlin

1977-78: Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship, Stanford University

1976-77: International Research and Exchanges Board and Fulbright-Hayes Grant, 12 months in Moscow, USSR

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS:
The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. 692 pages.

Lukács und Brecht. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1986. 271 pages (translation of listing below).

Lukács and Brecht. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. 336 pages.

Deutsche Schriftsteller im sowjetischen Exil 1933-1945. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1991. 585 pages (paperback edition of listing below).

Deutsche Schriftsteller im sowjetischen Exil 1933-1945. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981. 585 pages (translation of listing below).

German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. 448 pages.

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS:
"Ñîâåòèçaöèÿ èëè äåìîêðaòèçaöèÿ? Ñîâåòñêaÿ âîåííaÿ aäìèíèñòðaöèÿ â Ãåðìaíèè (ÑÂAÃ)." Îòå÷åñòâåííaÿ èñòîðèÿ. Vol. 199 (1996), no. 4.

"The Kulturbund Ban, 1947: Causes, Context, Consequences." Actes du Colloque international "Les quatre puissances occupantes et la culture à Berlin, 1945-1949. 17-page manuscript in print.

"Censorship in Soviet-Occupied and Early East Germany, 1945-56." In The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1945-1950 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 217-241.

"Cultural Politics in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1946." Journal of Contemporary History 1 (1989), pp. 91-123.

"Bertolt Brecht and 'Nicht-Eingreifendes Denken.'" Critical Essays on Brecht. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1988, pp. 253-75.

"The Owl of Minerva: Reappraisals of Georg Lukács, East and West." German Studies Review 2 (1988), pp. 193-225.

"Georg Lukács on Stalinism and Democracy: Before and after Prague, 1968." Eastern European Politics and Societies 2 (1988), pp. 241-79.

"Georg Lukács und der Stalinismus." In: "Realismuskonzeptionen in der Exilliteratur zwischen 1935 und 1940/41," pp. 144-55. Sonderband. Exil. Forschungen Erkenntnisse Ergebnisse. Tagung der Hamburger Arbeiitsstelle für Exilliteratur, 1986.

"Exil Research and State Sponsorship." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 11. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1987, pp. 264-71.

"Stalin and the Intellectuals." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 10. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1985, pp. 226-44.

"German Democratic Republic (1983 SED profile)." Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1984, pp. 322-33.

"German Democratic Republic (1982 SED profile)." Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1983, pp. 270-82.

"German Democratic Republic (1981 SED profile)." Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1982, pp. 402-17.

"Brecht and Stalin's Russia. The Victim as Apologist." Beyond Brecht / Über Brecht hinaus. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983, pp. 143-93.

"The Ghost of Stalin Past: Harry Türk as Gap-Stopper." German Studies Review 3 (1982), pp. 339-64.

"Eine Faschismustheorie der Komintern? Ernst Ottwalts Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus." Exil. Forschungen Erkenntnisse Ergebnisse 1 (1982), pp. 56-68.

"Marxism-Leninism and Literary History in the German Democratic Republic. From Proletarian Revolutionary Literature to Socialist Realism 1917-1945." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 7. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1982, pp. 148-98.

Alfred Kantorowicz, Politik und Literatur. Deutschsprachige Schriftsteller im Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Hamburg: Christians, 1978. In: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 6. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1981, pp. 255-66.

"German Democratic Republic (1980 SED profile)." Yearbook on InternationalCommunist Affairs. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1981, pp. 244-58.

"The German Ezhovshchina. Stalin's Purge of Germans 1933-1941." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 5. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 1981, pp. 127-68.

"A Camp through the Eyes of Peasant: Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." California Slavic Studies, vol. 10. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979,pp. 193-223.

TALKS GIVEN (SINCE 1985):

"SED-Herrschaft und Kultur in der SBZ/DDR." Internationale Wissenschaftliche Tagung zum Thema "Die SED - fünfzigste Wiederkehr ihrer Gründung 1946 - Enstehung, Wandel und Konturen einer kommunistischen Staatspartei." Universität Mannheim, 21-23 March 1996.

"The Soviet Military Administration in Germany, 1945-1949." Germany and the New Länder: Five Years after Unification. East German Studies Group Conference, Stanford University, 16-19 November 1995.

"The Kulturbund Ban, 1947: Causes, Context, Consequences." The Four Occupying Powers and Culture in Berlin, 1945-1949. An international conference sponsored by the Institute français in association with the Centre Franco-Allemand de Rercherches in Sciences Sociales and the German Historical Museum to mark the occasion of the departure of Allied forces from Berlin. Berlin, 5-6 September 1994.

"Politics and Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany and the Early German Demcratic Republic, 1945-1956." Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution / Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen / Forschungsschwerpunkt Zeithistorische Studien, Potsdam): Germany and the Cold War, 1945-1962, Essen, 28-30 June 1994. Supplementary Session: GDR: Internal History, Potsdam, 1-2 July 1994.

"Censorship in Soviet-Occupied and Early East Germany, 1945-1954."The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East Europe 1945-1950: A Reassessment." Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 29-31 March 1994.

"The Future of East German Studies following the Fall of the Wall." Graduate Student Workshop on East German History. Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 2-4 April 1993.

"Cultural Policy in the Soviet Zone." The Sciences and Political Cultures in Postwar Germany. Workshop at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Washington, D.C., 18-19 April 1993.

"The Deportation of German 'Specialists' to the Soviet Union in October 1946: What went Wrong and Why?" Science under Socialism in East Germany and in Comparative Perspective. Workshop, Berlin, 1- 3 September 1993.

"Ideologie und Terror im sowjetisch besetzten Deutschland: Neue Ansätze und alte Reflexe während der 'Schdanowschschina.'" "Weiße Flecken" in der Geschichte des Weltkommunismus - Stalinistischer Terror und "Säuberungen" in den kommunistischen Parteien Europas seit den dreißiger Jahren. Ein internationales wissenschaftliches Symposium an der Universität Mannheim, 22-25 February 1992.

"East German Communism in the Age of Openness." "The Two German States: Their Relationship in a Changing World," Arizona State University, 1 October 1989.

"Culture and Politics in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1946." German Studies Association convention, St. Louis, Missouri, 15-18 October 1987.

"Georg Lukács: Die Einheit von aesthetischer Theorie und politischer Praxis im sowjetischen Exil." "Die politische Herausforderung der Literatur. Realismus-Konzeptionen der Exilliteratur zwischen 1935 und 1941." Hamburg, 25-27 June 1986.

National Unity and the Unity of German Culture: German-German Cultural Relations 1945-1948." "West Germany's Founding Decade." University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 15-17 November 1985.

"Neue Zeiten - Alte Kontroversen." IREX Sub-Commission colloquium of American and East-German scholars on "Exilliteratur in den USA - die Spätphase." Madison, Wisconsin, 9-12 October 1985.

"A Retrospective Look at Lukács and Stalinism." German Studies Association convention, Washington, D.C., 3-6 October 1985.

"Georg Lukács in Soviet Exile: Accommodation or Autonomy?" "Artists and Intellectuals in Nazi-Occupied Europe." Symposium at the Jewish Museum, New York, April 1985.