Thomas Pegelow

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (1971-) was born in Cold-War West Germany and, as a high school student, became involved in intense debates over the Nazi crimes and party members in his hometown in Lower Saxony. His academic training took place at the Universities of Tuebingen, Oregon-Eugene, Berlin (Technical and Free U), and North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he earned a PhD. He has taught at Grinnell College, Davidson College and De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, and currently serves as the Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies as well as Professor of History at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, US. His research focuses on histories of violence, language, and culture of Nazi Germany and the 1960s global youth revolts. Pegelow Kaplan has been a research fellow at numerous institutions, including Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research, the Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.