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About

Dr. Kollander’s research focuses on modern German history in general and the contributions of recent German and Austrian emigres to the war against Nazism in particular. ��She has served as department chair, special assistant to the dean, and as a provost fellow.

Her publications include two books: ��Frederick III: Germany's Liberal Emperor�� (Greenwood Press, 1995) and ��"I Must Be a Part of this War": A German American’s Fight against Hitler and Nazism ��(with John O'Sullivan, contributor; Fordham University Press, 2005). ��Her articles have appeared in the scholarly journals�� German History, European Review of History, Yearbook of German American Studies, and The Historian.

Recent publications include an article “Empress Frederick and the Women’s Movement in Nineteenth Century Germany”�� Journal of International Women’s History ��(2020), ��and two book chapters “The Role of German and Austrian Emigres in the U.S. Army in the Liberation of Hitler’s Fortress Europe and the Denazification Process�� “in Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution.�� ��(Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publishing, 2020) and “German and Austrian Child Emigres in the U.S. and the War against Nazism,” in the conference volume�� Children and War: Past and Present. ��(Warwick, UK: Helion and Company, 2022)

Forthcoming publications include an edited book,�� The U.S. Presidency, the Holocaust and the State of Israel, ��(conference volume from the 2024 Larkin Symposium, University Press of �Թ��� 2026), an updated version of a 2013 essay “Boomerang Resistance: ��German Emigres in the U.S. Army in the ETO during World War II” contribution to Thomas W. Zeiler’s two volume ��A Companion to the Second World War�� (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2026), and a book chapter, “German and Austrian Emigres in the U.S. Army and the Holocaust”�� in The U.S. Military and the Holocaust ��edited by Adam Seipp and Kaete O’Connell. (University of Texas El Paso Press, 2026). Her current manuscript project is entitled:�� From Immigration to Liberation: Recent German and Austrian Emigres in the US Army and the War against Nazism.

Areas of Expertise

• Modern Germany
• World War II
• Modern Russia
• Women in European History

Links of Interest

Courses

Undergraduate Courses

• History of Civilization from Ancient Times to 1600
• History of Civilization from 1600 to the Present��
• Introduction to Historical Study
• Senior Seminar
• Women in European History
• Hitler and Nazi Germany
• History of Modern Russia

Graduate Courses

• Teaching Practicum for Graduate Students
• Graduate Research Seminar—Nazi Germany: Politics, Culture and Society
• Graduate Readings Seminar—Resistance in Nazi Germany
• Graduate Readings Seminar: The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial
• Graduate Readings Seminar: Women in Nazi Germany
  
  

Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)