The Cooper Union: Humanities and Social Sciences

ATINA GROSSMANN Professor (212) 353-4277 ag93@nyu.edu	Recent Books Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control & Abortion Reform 1920-1950 When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany


Atina Grossmann teaches Modern European and German history, and women's and gender studies. She holds a B.A. from City College of New York and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her publications include Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform 1920-1950 (1995), co-edited collections When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (1984), and Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the 20th Century (2002), and numerous articles on gender, modernity, war and genocide, and German and Jewish memory in twentieth century Germany. Her new book, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (Princeton University Press) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library, London. \| BACK \|