Julia Sneeringer

Modern Germany, pop culture

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5350
julia.sneeringer@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu

Julia Sneeringer is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in German from Temple University. A historian of 20th century Germany, she also offers courses on Fascism and Nazism, Europe Since 1945, politics and culture in Weimar Germany, the history of youth and popular music, and women and gender in modern Europe. She is the author of A Social History of Early Rock’n’Roll in Germany: Hamburg From Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018) and Winning Women’s Votes: Politics and Propaganda in Weimar Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). She’s published articles on the history of nightlife tourism, Babylon Berlin and 1980s West Berlin, and popular engagement with music across the 20th century. Her most recent book is West Germany: A Society in Motion, 1949-1989 for Bloomsbury’s series of short introductions to German history.