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CURRICULUM VITAE
PATRICIA KOLLANDER
Department of History
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 297-3841
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D. History, Brown University, 1991
M.A. History, Brown University, 1986
B.A. German/History, The College of Wooster, 1981
Academic Appointments
Chair, Department of History, 2008Interim Chair, Department of History, 2007-08
Professor of History, 2007Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University, 1996-2006
Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University, 1991-95
Instructor in History, The College of Wooster, 1989-1990
Teaching Assistant, Brown University, 1983-86, 1987-88
Refereed Publications
Books:
‖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) (blind peer review)
Frederick III: Germany's Liberal Emperor (Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut: 1995)
(blind peer review)
Edited Work:
Co-editor (with Leslie Derfler) Third Edition of An Age of Conflict: Readings in Twentieth
Century European History Harcourt-Brace College Publishers, 2001—editorial review
Articles:
―Reflections on the Experiences of German-Americans Émigré Soldiers in the U.S. Army in
World War II,‖ Yearbook of German-American Studies Vol. 41 (2006) pp. 103-17—blind peer
review
"Constitutionalism or Staatsreich? Bismarck, Crown Prince Frederick William, and the
Succession Crisis of 1880-1885" - European Review of History, Vol. 8, No. 2, Autumn 2001,
pp. 187-201—blind peer review
"Empress Frederick: the Last Hope for a Liberal Germany? " The Historian Vol. 62 No.1 (Fall
1999) pp. 47-63. – blind peer review
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(This article appeared on the web in German translation as ―Kaiserin Friedrich- Die letzte
Hoffnung fuer ein liberales Deutschland?‖ at www. Kronbeger-maler-de/victoria/kollander.
html)
"Bismarck, Crown Prince Frederick William, and the Hohenzollern Candidacy for the Spanish
Throne" European Review of History Vol. 3, No. 2 (1996) pp. 171-85—blind peer review
"Politics for the Defence?: Bismarck, Battenberg and the Formation of the Cartel of 1887"
German History, Vol. 13, No. 1 (February 1995): pp. 28-46—blind peer review
Book chapters:
―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 with
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming, 2012. 24 manuscript pages --editorial review
―Origins of the Civil War in Yugoslavia‖ in Jeffrey Morton, ed. War in the Balkans
(Hampshire, England, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004), pp. 3-22—blind peer review
―Die politische Auswirkungen der ‗Battenberger Affäre,‖ in Victoria, Kaiserin Friedrich, 18401901. Mission und Schicksaal einer englischen Prinzessin in Deutschland (Campus Verlag,
2002), pp. 179-195. – editorial review
"Malevolent Partnership or Blatant Opportunism?: German-Croat relations, 1920-1941" in
Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles and Walter Pape, eds. Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural
Identities and Cultural Realities Yearbook of European Studies (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and
Atlanta, 1999), pp. 266-284—editorial review
Encyclopedia entries:
―German Soldiers in the American Army in World War II‖ in Thomas Allen, ed. Encyclopedia
of German-American Relations. (ABC-Clio Press, Fall 2005)
―Henry Kissinger‖ in Thomas Allen, ed. Encyclopedia of German-American Relations. (ABCClio Press, Fall 2005)
―Frederick III‖ in Dieter Buse, ed., Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People and
Culture, 1871-1890 (New York and London, Garland Press, 1998) pp. 354-355—editorial
review
―Frederick III‖ in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds., Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914.
(Charles Scribner‘s Sons, New York, 2006)
―William I‖ in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds., Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914.
(Charles Scribner‘s Sons, New York, 2006)
Non-Refereed Publications
Article: ―Bismarck, Napoleon III and the Hohenzollern Candidacy for the Rumanian Throne‖
Royalty Digest Volume X, No. 7 (January 2001) pp. 217-220
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Edited book: Courage Takes Flight: An Oral History of the Life and Times of World War II
Bombardier Harold Glasser (American Life Publishers, 2011)
WORKS UNDER REVIEW
Article: ―The Charity Work of Empress Victoria Reconsidered‖ under review in Women‘s
History Review
Other Professional Activities
Reader for Advanced Placement Program, 1993 and 1994
Honors, Awards, and Post- Doctoral Fellowships
-SCAF fellowship for fall semester, 2005 (1- course reduction)
-Summer Stipend Award from the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Summer
2005
-Writing Across the Curriculum course development grant, Florida Atlantic University, 2004
-selected for membership in Phi Kappa Phi, 2004
-Travel award from Division of Research and Graduate Studies at FAU, July 2003
-Summer research stipend for Summer A Term, 2003
-Finalist for the Researcher of the Year Award, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Spring
2002
-Release Time Award for the Academic Year 2002-2003 (1-course reduction)
-Grant from the Hessische Hausstiftung to present paper at conference on Empress Frederick in
Kronberg, Germany—September 2001
-FAU Foundation International Travel Grant, Fall 2001
-Schmidt College Travel Grant—Fall 2000
-Sabbatical for Fall Semester 2000 (to research and write One Man’s Fight Against Hitler and
Nazism)
-Schmidt College Travel Grant—Fall 1998
-Schmidt College Travel Grant—Fall 1997
-Schmidt College of Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1996
-FAU Foundation Travel Grant, Summer 1996
-Schmidt College of Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1995
-Schmidt Professional Support Grants, Fall 1993, Fall 1994 and Spring 1995
-Schmidt College of Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1993
-Florida Atlantic University Foundation Research Fellowship, 1992
Papers Presented -- indicate whether paper presented eventually resulted in a published work,
and give full citation of that published work)
Note: all conference papers were accepted for presentation on basis of abstracts
―Refugees from Hitler transformed: German Émigrés in the U.S. Army during World War II‖
Paper accepted for presentation at conference ‗Beyond camps and forced labour: current
international research on survivors of Nazi persecution‘, to be held at the Imperial War Museum,
London, 4-6 January 2012.
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―Homeland Changed Forever: German Émigré Soldiers, the Holocaust and Persecution of War
Criminals‖ Paper accepted for presentation at the Southern Historical Association Meeting in
Baltimore, Maryland, October 2011
―German Emigres Confront the Holocaust‖ Paper presented at the Biennial Lessons and Legacies
of the Holocaust Conference, Boca Raton, November 2010
―Adding to the Ranks of the Resistance Movement against Hitler? German Émigrés in the U.S.
Army during World War II ― Paper presented at the Southern Historical Association Meeting in
Lexington, KY for November 2009
―From Enemy Aliens to Soldiers: the Saga of German Emigres in the U.S. Army during World
War II‖ Paper presented at the Southern Historical Association Meeting in Birmingham, AL
November 2006
―Mischlinge as Outcasts and Liberators—the Saga of K. Frank Korf‖ Paper presented at the
Southern Historical Association Meeting in Birmingham, AL November 2006
―From Immigration to Liberation: German émigré Soldiers in the U.S. Army During World
War II‖ Paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, September 2005 in
Milwaukee, WI. Later published as “Reflections on the Experiences of German-Americans
Émigré Soldiers in the U.S. Army in World War II,” in Yearbook of German-American
Studies Vol. 41 (2006)
―From Mischling Outcast to Liberator of Germany - The Journey of K. Frank Korf‖ Paper
presented at the annual German Studies Association Meeting in Washington, D.C., October 2004.
―Philanthropy as an Agent for Social Change: The Charity Work of Empress Victoria of
Germany‖ Paper presented at the annual German Studies Association Meeting, in New Orleans,
LA September 2003.
―Reflections on the Experiences of German-Americans in World War II,‖ Paper presented at
the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, October 2002.
"Constitutionalism or Staatsreich? The Succession Crisis of 1880-1885" Paper presented at the
German Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C., October 2001
―The Political Implications of the Battenberg Affair‖ Paper presented at conference
commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the death of the Empress Frederick of Germany in
Kronberg, Germany. September 2001. Later published as “Die politische Auswirkungen der
„Battenberger Affaere,” in Victoria, Kaiserin Friedrich, 1840-1901. Mission und
Schicksaal einer englischen Prinzessin in Deutschland (Campus Verlag, 2002), pp. 179195.
―A German Liberator of Germany: the Life and Times of Kurt Frank Korf‖ Paper presented at
the German Studies Association Conference in Houston, Fall 2000
―The Empress Frederick in Perspective‖ Paper presented at the German Studies Association
Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. October 1999
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―Prelude to Fascist Alliance?: German-Croat Relations 1919-41‖ Paper presented at the
German Studies Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. October 1998
―The Last Hope for a Liberal Germany? Some New Views on the Life of the Empress
Frederick‖ Paper presented at European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE October 1997 . Later
published as "Empress Frederick: the Last Hope for a Liberal Germany? " The Historian
Vol. 62 No.1 (Fall 1999) pp. 47-63.
―German-Croat relations, 1920-1941" Paper presented the Eighth New College Biennial
Conference on Central and Eastern Europe Sarasota, FL,, April 1997
"Germany, Croatia and the Civil War in Former Yugoslavia" Paper presented at the
Southeastern Conference for German and Central European Studies at the University of
Florida, March 1996 (Later published as "Malevolent Partnership or Blatant
Opportunism?: German-Croat relations, 1920-1941" in Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles
and Walter Pape, eds. Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural
Realities Yearbook of European Studies (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1999),
pp. 266-284
"Royals, Liberals and the Social Question, 1858-1888" Paper presented at the Seventh New
College Biennial Conference on Central and Eastern Europe Sarasota, FL, April 1995
"Liberalism and Socialism During the Reichsgründungszeit" Paper presented at the German
Studies Association Conference, Dallas, TX October 1994
"Crown Prince Frederick William and the New Era" Paper presented at the German Studies
Association Conference, Washington, DC October 1993
Book Reviews
Hans Mommsen, Germans Against Hitler: The Stauffenberg Plot and Resistance Under the Third
Reich. H-German, H-Net Reviews, December 2009
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25823
Peter Hoffmann, Claus Stenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Die Biographie (Pantheon, 2007).
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=15665
Walter Igersheimer and Ian Darragh, Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi
Germany (McGill-Queen's University Press, June 2005) H-German, 2006. http://hnet.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=hgerman&month=0607&week=c&msg=3j4dSzDC0t0ecIe7Ic37Zg&user=&pw=
Frederick Raymes and Menachem Mayer, Are the Trees in Bloom Over There? (Jerusalem, Yad
Vashem, 2002), forthcoming in The European Legacy ELEG 12:1, Jan. 2007.
Christof Mauch, The Shadow War against Hitler. The Covert Operations of America‘s Wartime
Secret Intelligence Service.(New York, Columbia University Press, 2003) H-German, 2006
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=hgerman&month=0603&week=e&msg=fHh7TOAWeMx4zpVqSaif7g&user=&pw=
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Julia P. Gelardi, Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria. (New
York, St. Martin‘s Press, History, Reviews of Books Vol. 34 No. 1 (Fall 2005), p. 22.
Robert D. Billinger, Jr. Hitler‘s Soldiers in the Sunshine State. (Gainesville, University Press of
Florida, 2000) published by H-Florida (June 2004) http://h-net.msu.edu/cgibin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=hflorida&month=0406&week=c&msg=vPBFpGlcM8eHBMBTCWGtEg&user=&pw=
Scott W. Murray, Liberal Diplomacy and German Unification. The Early Career of Robert
Morier. (Westport, Connecticut, and London: Greenwood Press, 2000) in German Studies
Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, (October 2003), pp. 685-686.
David Wetzel, A Duel of Giants. Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian
War, (Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 2001) in German Studies Review Vo.
26, No. 1, (February 2003), p. 161.
J.C.G. Roehl, Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser‘s Early Life (Cambridge, 1998) in The Historian
Vol. 64, no. 1, (2001): p. 197
Lamar Cecil, William II. Volume II: Emperor and Exile, 1990-1941 (Chapel Hill, 1996) in The
Historian Vol. 61, No.1 (Fall 1998), pp. 190-191
David E. Barclay, Frederick William IV and the Prussian Monarchy, 1840-1861. (Oxford,
1995) in The Historian Vol. 59. No. 4 (Summer 1997) pp. 906-907
J.C.G. Röhl Wilhelm II: Die Jugend des Kaisers (Munich, 1993) in German Studies Review
Vol. 18, No. 3 (October 1995), pp. 514-515.
Dennis Mack Smith Mazzini (New York, 1993) in The Historian Vol. 57, No. 3 (Spring 1995):
pp. 648-649.
Other reviews:
Reviewer of NEH summer grant proposal, October 2010
Reviewer of essays in Snell Prize Competition for European Section of the Southern Historical
Association (2010- )
Reviewer of book proposal From the Romanovs to Putin and Beyond:
A Concise History of Modern Russia Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (summer 2009)
Reviewer for Bulliet, The Earth and Its Peoples, A Global History, Student Achievement
Edition (summer 2007)
Reviewer for The One Who Got Away: Ante Pavelić and the United States, 1934-1959 (206page manuscript by Rob McCormick under consideration at University of Akron Press, summer
2006)
Reviewer for Sharing the World Stage: Biography and Gender in World History (HoughtonMifflin, 2006)
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Reviewer for Robert Strayer‘s A Brief World History (Bedford-St. Martin‘s) 2006
Author of report on GSA conference panel: ―Jewish-German Christian Mischlinge‖ published
in H-net November 1, 2004. http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=hgerman&month=0411&week=a&msg=s4FknNXoRtNUWuXPIfWnUg&user=&pw=
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Book manuscript: ―From Immigration to Liberation: German Émigré Soldiers in the U.S. Army
during World War II‖
Book manuscript: ―World War II Bombardier, Consul, Pageant President: The Life and Times
of Harold Glasser and the Transformation of Jewish-American Life‖
Book manuscript: ―Renegade Empress: Victoria of Germany‖
TEACHING
Teaching Awards
-University Undergraduate Teaching Award—March 2006
-Selected for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2004, 2005, 2007
-Nominee from Schmidt College of Arts and Letters for University Undergraduate Teaching
Award—March 2000
-Teaching Incentive Program Award, Fall 1994
Undergraduate courses taught:
WOH 2012-History of Civilization from Ancient Times to 1600- 1991-present
WOH 2022--History of Civilization from 1600 to the Present -- 1991--present
HIS 3150-- Introduction to Historical Study -1998--present
EUH 3462--Modern Germany: 1870 to the present—1992-2000
EUH 4613--Women in European History – 1997--present
EUH 4465--Hitler and Nazi Germany –2000--present
EUH 3572--Russia and the Soviet Union – 1992--present
EUH 4663--Rise and Fall of the Cold War—1992-2000
HIS 4908--Undergraduate Directed Independent Study—1992-present
HIS 4935—Senior Seminar
Graduate courses taught:
HIS 5944--Teaching Practicum for Graduate Students—1995-2000, 2011
EUH 5700--Graduate Readings Seminar – Modern Germany & Russia --1996
HIS 6939-- Germany—From the Second to the Third Reich-- 1998
HIS 6939--Graduate Seminar –Hitler and Nazi Germany--2000
EUH 5700—The Problem of Resistance in Nazi Germany—2004 & 2006
EUH 5735—Graduate Readings Seminar: Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives?--2005
EUH 5705—Graduate Readings Seminar: The Third Reich and its Legacy—2006
EUH 6939- Graduate Research Seminar: Cooperation & Resistance under Hitler, 2010
HIS 6908—Graduate Directed Independent Study –1995 --present
New Courses added to the curriculum:
EUH 4663--Rise and Fall of the Cold War (added 1994)
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EUH 4465--Hitler and Nazi Germany (added 2002)
Thesis Advising (chairman or committee member; topic; student name; date):
Chair of Master’s Thesis Committee:
1. Lorant Botha: ―The Historiography of Homosexuality in the Third Reich
Revisited‖
(projected completion- Fall 2011)
2. Michael Ortiz: ―Appeasement of Hitler and the British Union of Fascists, a
Reappraisal‖(completed December 2010)
3. Eliot A. Kopp: ―Fritz Kuhn: The American Fuehrer and the Rise and Fall of the GermanAmerican Bund‖ (2010)
4. Doug Phinney, ―The Impact of Hitler‘s Mein Kampf in the United States‖ (2007)
5. Laurie Cotton, ―Peacemakers on the Home Front: Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Wilson and
the Treaty of Versailles Ratification Debates (2005)
6. M. Vann, ―West German Secondary Education on the Holocaust‖ (1998)
7. Deborah Campbell, ―The Czech Republic‘s Attempt to Join the European Union‖ (1998)
8. Michael Petersen, ―All the Kaiser‘s Men: German Volunteers in the Great War, 1914-1918‖
(1997)
Third Reader for Master’s candidates (Pia Penders ('94), David Campbell ('95), Astrid
Whidden ('94), Joseph Poles,('96) Ed Osborne, ('96) Mark Vital ('99), Douglas Giacobbe
(2000), Kathy Barsalou (2001), Reuben Ferguson (2002), Shannon Workman (Anthropology),
Frank de Benedictis (2002), Lavinia Busca (Political Science MA, 2004), Susan Rosenkranz,
(2005), Madelyn Levigne, (2006), Eliot Kopp (2009)
Doctoral Dissertation Committees
-Fourth reader for PhD Dissertation in Comparative Studies by Katherine Morris, College of
Arts and Letters 2010- (Anticipated date of completion, 2013)
-Fourth reader for PhD Dissertation in Comparative Studies by Margaret Schaller, College of
Arts and Letters, 2007-08 (Thesis was successfully defended in Fall 2008)
-Fourth Reader for PhD Dissertation by Jeffrey Ellison, Department of Educational Leadership,
1997-2002 (Thesis was successfully defended in February 2002)
SERVICE—Department, College and University Committees
University
-Member, Honors Education Task Force Committee, 2011
-Member, E-Learning Task Force Committee, 2010-2011
-Member, University Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Review Committee, 2008-2010
--Member of University Research Committee (URC), 2006-2007
--Member of University Promotion and Tenure Committee—2004-2006
--Faculty Advisor, Armenian Students Association, 2005-2007
--Freshman Advisor for Fall 2001 and Fall 2002
--Member, Search Committee to select faculty advisors, Fall 2004
--University Center Advisory Board, 1994-1995
College
-Chair of Research and Other Creative Activities Committee (ROCA), 2006-2007
-Member of Search Committee for Dean of the D.F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 20062007
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-Member of Search Committee for position in Race and Ethnicity, 2005-2006 (130 applicants)
-Member, Judaic Studies Executive Committee, 2005-2008
-Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 2004-2006
-Member of Holocaust and Judaic Studies Task Force, Fall 2004-2005
-Dean‘s Advisory Committee, 2004-2006
-Ad Hoc Member, Student Appeals Committee, Spring ‘04 (2 hour expulsion appeal hearing)
-Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of History, 2003- 2006
-Member, Schmidt College Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2003-2006
-Member of Executive Committee for Schmidt College PhD in Languages, Literatures, and
Literacies, 2003-2004
-Member—Search Committee for position in Africana Studies, Davie Campus, 2003
-Vice-Chair of Faculty Assembly of the Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 2003-2005
(several hour- long steering committee meetings; attended all Faculty Assembly meetings)
-Proxy for Schmidt College Representative to University Research Committee, February 2001
-Member at Large, Faculty Assembly of the Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 1999-2000
-Member of Schmidt College Market Equity Committee, Fall 1999
-Member of the Research and Other Creative Activities Committee, 1999-2002
-Undergraduate Programs Committee, Schmidt College 1997-1999
-By-Laws Committee of the Schmidt College, Fall, 1996
Department
-Chair, Department of History, 2008- (chair is ex officio member of four department
committees)
-Interim Chair, Department of History, 2007-08 (chair is ex officio member of four department
committees and two search committees)
-In charge of selection of scholars to deliver biennial K. Frank Korf Memorial Lecture, 2000present
-Department Representative to the Schmidt College Faculty Assembly, 2006-2007
-Department Representative on ROCA (Research and other creative activities committee, 20062007)
-Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of History, 2004-2006
-Member, Search Committee for World Historian on the North Palm Beach campus, 2004-2005
-Department Committee on Promotion and Tenure 1996-1997, 1998-2000, 2001-2003
-Department Committee on Student Awards, 1994-1999
-Search Committee for American Historian for North Palm Beach Campus, Summer 1996
-Department Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum, 1993-2000
-Department Outreach Committee, 1995-1999
-Search Committee for Early Modern European Historian, Spring 1993
-Department Committee on Graduate Admissions and Evaluation, 1992-1993, 1997Departmental Service (e.g. creation of websites, recruitment, co-ordination of special events)
-Faculty Advisor for History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta, 1996-2000, 2003-2004 (helped
arrange for selection of new members and their initiation ceremony; processed new members‘
applications)
Community Activities:
--School Volunteer, S.D. Spady Elementary School in Delray Beach, 2003-2008
-Lector at St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church, Pompano Beach, 1999-2005
-Member of the Vestry, St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church, Pompano Beach, 2000-2003
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-Lecturer for League of Women Voters- (Origins of the War in Kosovo) June 1999
-Organizer and Lecturer for Great Decisions Lecture Series, Town of South Palm Beach, 19951999
-Current Events Panelist, Town of South Palm Beach, 2003-2004
-Member of HEARTS (Humanitarian Efforts Through the Arts), an organization providing
relief for refugees of the war in former Yugoslavia, 1991-1995
-Lecturer for Holocaust Education Program at Florida Atlantic University, 1997-2004
-Lecturer for the Lifelong Learning Program at FAU, American Association of University
Women, Kiwanis Clubs of Palm Beach, Rotary Club of Delray Beach, St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Abbey Delray Men‘s Club
-Participant in Relief efforts in South Dade County after Hurricane Andrew, 1992
Foreign Languages
German- good reading and speaking ability
Spanish- reading and speaking ability
Croatian- speaking ability