Kees Gispen
Professor of History
Phone Number: (662)915-1500
Email: gispen@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/2011/11/18/kees-gispen-professor-of-history-and-executive-director-of-the-croft-institute-for-international-studies/

Key Words: Germany, Social and Economic, Croft Institute for International Studies

Research Description: Gispen is a professor of modern European History with an emphasis on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Germany. His particular area of expertise is the social history of technology. His publications include New Profession, Old Order: The Emergence of the Engineering Profession in Germany, 1815-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1989); Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn (Berghahn Books, 2001); and articles and chapters on the history of engineers, National Socialism, and intellectual property law. A long chapter, “Der gefesselte Prometheus: Die Ingenieure in Grossbritannien und in den Vereinigten Staaten 1750-1945,” appeared in 2006 in Geschichte des Ingenieurs: Ein Beruf in sechs Jahrtausenden, ed. Walter Kaiser and Wolfgang Koenig (Hanser Verlag, 2006). Gispen received his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1981. He has been at the University of Mississippi since 1983 and with the Croft Institute since 1998. He was Croft Associate Director from 2005 to 2007. In the History Department, Gispen has taught courses on modern Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust. At Croft, he teaches Inst 101 Introduction to International Studies and Inst 205 Introduction to European Studies and serves as a thesis mentor for students in Inst 421 and 422 Senior Thesis parts I and II. Courses for fall 2009: Inst 101.1-3 Introduction to International Studies Inst 211.1 Model UN Courses for spring 2010: Inst 205.1 (with Alice Cooper) Introduction to European Studies Inst 312.1 Aspects of the Holocaust

Honors Theses:

Wicks, Marie Elizabeth (2011) "Swing Into Action: The Political and Aesthetic Role of Jazz in Nazi Germany and Occupied France"

Bankston, Dustin Cody (2008) "Russians at Work: Past and Present of the Russian Mentality toward Work"

Sharman, William Bradford (2007) " German Security Policy: Continuity Across the 1990 Divide"

Ramsey, William Lee III (2007) "A Comparative Analysis of Institutions, Policies, and Vehicle Emissions between the United States and the European Union"

Day, Christine Erin (2006) The French Non: The Socialist Party, Relocations, Economic Concerns

Fewell, Kari Allison (2005) "Old Game, Same Players, New Rules: An Ideological Evolution in the Arena of World Politics Requires the US to Shelve Unilateralism as a Tool of Foreigh Policy"

Mansel, Elizabeth Ferriday (2005) “Immigration and Antisemitism: A Neglected Aspect of the Rise of Antisemitism in Vienna, 1857-1919”