Jonathan Petropoulos, Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise

European History, Germany, Holocaust Art Theft/Looted Art, Radical Right Wing, World War II

Selected Research and Publications

• Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (New York/London: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Art as Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
• Co-editor with Scott Denham (Davidson) and Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth), A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
• Editorial Board Member for Elizabeth Simpson, ed., The Spoils of War: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property During and After World War II (New York: Harry Abrams, 1997)

Selected Awards and Affiliations

• Huntoon Senior Teaching Award (outstanding teacher), Claremont McKenna College, 2002
• New York Public Library, The Faustian Bargain named one of the 25 most memorable books of 2000.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, fellowship for 2000-2001
• Holocaust Educational Foundation, Research Grant, summer 1998
• Enhancing Classroom Teaching (for trip to Holocaust sites in Eastern Europe), Loyola College, 1995