CurriculumVitae

SilkeZoller,M.A.

Education

2012-TempleUniversity, History Department

  • Ph.D.in History,expected defense in May 2018
  • TentativeTitle:“InternationalizingCounterterrorism: Combating theThreat ofTerrorismintheUnitedStatesandWesternEurope,1968-1980”
  • Advisor:Dr. RichardImmerman

2009-2012: University Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

  • MasterofArts,EarlyModern andModernHistory
  • Grade: Excellent

2006-2009: University Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

  • BachelorofArts, History(Major)andEnglish(Minor)
  • Grade: Excellent

GrantsFellowships

2016-2017: Center for the Humanities at Temple

  • Graduate Associate Fellowship

2016: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)

  • Samuel FlaggBemisDissertationResearchGrant

2016-2017: Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD), Temple University

  • John F. Votaw Endowed Research Fellowship

2016-2017: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation

  • Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant

2015-2016: CENFAD, Temple University

  • MarvinWachmanFellowship in ForceandDiplomacy
  • co-heldwith JohnWorsencroft

2015-2016: Global Studies Program, Temple University

  • GraduateStudent ResearchGrant

2014-2015: CENFAD, Temple University

  • ThomasJ.DavisFellowship in DiplomacyandForeignRelations

Conferences

German Studies Association 41st Annual Conference

  • “’Ordinary Criminals’: West Germany and International Terrorism in the 1970s” (October 2017)

TheSocietyfor HistoriansofAmericanForeignRelations(SHAFR) 2017 Annual Meeting

  • “Nothing but “Ordinary Criminals”: U.S. and Western European Efforts to Delegitimize Terroristic Violence in the 1970s” (June 2017)

The Judith Reppy Institute’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop on Peace and Conflict, Cornell University

  • “Western Efforts to Depoliticize Non-State Terrorism in the 1970s” (April 2017)

Global Temple Conference, Temple University

  • “Common Criminals: Western Efforts to Depoliticize Terrorism in the 1970s” (November 2016)

SHAFR 2016AnnualMeeting

  • “ThePoliticsofExtradition: TheU.S.’sAnti-HijackingCampaign inInternationalInstitutions” (June 2016) (PanelCo-Organizer)

Councilfor EuropeanStudies’23rdInternational Conference ofEuropeanists

  • “TheRedArmyFactionAccusesthe Federal RepublicofGermany:DebatingDemocraticPrinciplesduring the“Stammheim Trial,”1975-1977” (April 2016)

Conference“States andTerrorism:AnAmbivalentRelationship,” TheGraduate InstituteGeneva

  • “StatesandNon-StateActors inCounterterrorism: TheUnitedStates’Early Anti-Hijacking Efforts” (May 2015)

SHAFR 2014 Annual Meeting

  • “TheRedArmyFactionandAmerican-West GermanRelations”(June 2014) (Panel Organizer)

19thAnnualJamesA.BarnesGraduate Student Conference, Temple University

  • “Terrorism asaWeaponinInternational Politics:HowConservatives and theReagan AdministrationRedefinedTerrorism, 1979-1981” (March 2014)

WestChester University Department ofHistory ColdWar Conference

  • “TheRedArmyFactionandAmericanColdWarViewsonTerrorism”(November 2013)

TransatlanticGraduateStudentColloquium,EberhardKarlsUniversity Tübingen,Germany

  • ”TheRedArmyFactionandInternational Counterterrorism” (September 2013)

Commenter,20thAnnualJamesA.BarnesGraduateStudent Conference

  • “Memoryand theProductionofHistory andKnowledge”Panel (March 2015)

Commenter, 18thAnnualJamesA.BarnesGraduateStudentConference

  • “ColdWarDiplomacyPanel” (March 2013)

Publications

2017: “Review Richard Moss, Nixon’s Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky,” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, 48 no. 2 (2017), 51-52.

2015: “Instructor’sGuide:BethBaileyandRichard H. Immerman(eds.),Understanding the U.S.WarsinIraqandAfghanistan,”co-authored with JohnWorsencroft, NewYork: NewYorkUniversity Press,2015,OnlinePublication, 15pp.

"NationalLiberation, InternationalOrganizations, and theOrigins ofU.S.Airport Security."StrategicVisionsMagazine:Newsletter for the Center oftheStudyofForce and Diplomacy,Fall2015,1-3.

2014: “ReviewLien-HangNguyen,Hanoi’sWar: AnInternational HistoryoftheWar forPeaceinVietnam, ChapelHill:University ofNorthCarolina,”StrategicVisionsMagazine:NewsletterfortheCenter ofthe Study of ForceandDiplomacy,Spring2014,5-6.

2013: “ReviewPaul ThomasChamberlin,TheGlobal Offensive:TheUnitedStates, the PalestinianLiberationOrganization,and theMaking ofthePost-ColdWar Order,NewYork: Oxford,”StrategicVisionsMagazine:Newsletter for the Center oftheStudyofForce and Diplomacy,Fall2013,4-5.

“ReviewFrank Costigliola,Roosevelt'sLost Alliances:HowPersonal PoliticsHelpedStart theCold War,Princeton: Princeton,”StrategicVisionsMagazine:Newsletter for the CenteroftheStudyofForce andDiplomacy,Spring2013, 10-11.

2012: “TheRationality ofIrrationality:CENFAD’sFilmSymposiumon Dr. Strangelove’sAmerica,”co-authoredwith SarahRobey,StrategicVisionsMagazine:Newsletter for the CenteroftheStudyofForce andDiplomacy,Fall2012, 2-3.

TeachingExperience

2016-2017: InstructorofRecord

  • TempleUniversity, History Department
  • 0848 American Revolutions (Online)
  • 2811 World War I
  • 0848 AmericanRevolutions

2015: Teaching in Higher Education Certificate, Temple University

2012-2015:TeachingAssistant

  • TempleUniversity, History Department
  • 2111 Recent AmericanHistory
  • 1102 UnitedStatesHistory 1877 tothePresent
  • 0848 AmericanRevolutions
  • 0861 GlobalSlavery
  • 0865 TheGlobal Crisis
  • 0867 FoundingPhiladelphia

2009-2011:TeachingAssistant

  • University Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Germany, History Department
  • Political History oftheUnitedStatesintheTwentiethCentury
  • TheAmericanRevolution
  • TheEarlyRepublic

WorkExperience

2016-Writing Tutor

  • Temple University, Student Success Center
  • Since 2017: Tutor Trainer

2011-2012:ResearchAssistant

  • University Tübingen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Germany
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) CollaborativeResearchCentre923“BedrohteOrdnungen“ (Threatened Orders: SocietiesUnder Stress)
  • Section“TheColdWar”

2010:Diplomatic Protocol Division Internship

  • Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington, D.C.

2008:Archivist Internship

  • Evonik Industries Corporate Archives, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

2007:Public History Internship

  • Lorsch Monastery UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lorsch, Germany

Service

2017-Graduate Student Representative, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Teaching Committee

2015: President, TempleUniversity History GraduateStudentAssociation (“JamesA. BarnesClub”)

2014: Social Secretary, TempleUniversity History GraduateStudentAssociation (“JamesA. BarnesClub”)

2013: First Year Representative, TempleUniversity History GraduateStudentAssociation (“JamesA. BarnesClub”)

Languages

German(native speaker)

English(nativefluency)

French(basic)

Latin(basic)