Jay Lockenour

I went to the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s and completed my PhD work at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Thomas Childers in 1995. After a brief stop at Franklin & Marshall College in 1995-1996, I joined the faculty at Temple University. I have been at Temple ever since, with a brief and awesome visit to the United States Air Force Academy in 2013-2014 and a return to Penn for the Fall 2016 semester. I am interested in the intersection between social and military history and especially in the social and cultural impact of warfare in Europe. I have worked on a wide-range of subjects, from German political culture and national identity, to POW and veterans’ affairs, to the role of film in illuminating historical consciousness. Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich is my most recent book. I am now working on a history of sports, war, and the military that begins in postwar East and West Germany and may move beyond.