Participant Info
- First Name
- Birgit
- Last Name
- Schneider
- Country
- Spain
- State
- bibi.schneider@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Navarra
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Post-Second World War, Twentieth-Century, Japan, Germany, World History, Transnational History, War and Peace, Occupation, Democracy and Totalitarianism, Ideology, Cultural Identity, Memory
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Birgit earned her MA in Japanese Studies and History at Leipzig University in Germany, and her Ph.D. in History at Washington State University in the U.S.
Her research focuses on demobilized soldiers of the German and Japanese militaries after their defeat in 1945, addressing questions of Cold-War politics and ideology alongside issues of culture, family, and identity. She has been teaching about European, Asian, and World History, and about cities, war, genocide, and memory.
She worked at the University of Hong Kong from 2011 to 2019 and has been teaching at the University of Navarra in 2020.
- Recent Publications
“From Demilitarization to Democratization: Demobilized Soldiers Between the American Occupation and the German and Japanese States, 1945-1955.” Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 70, no. 2 (2011), 329-362.
“Not Soldiers Anymore, Not Civilians Yet: Demobilized Soldiers Between American Occupation and the Japanese Government, 1945-1955.” The Japan Studies Association Journal 8 (2010), 165-178.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @europeenne
- Country Focus
- Germany, Japan
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, East Asia, Germany, Japan
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Diplomacy, Genocide, Military, Politics, World War II
