Alan Jones

Current Program (including year of entry): Ph.D. History (2019)

Supervisor:

Dr. Jennifer Evans

Academic Interests:

20^th Century German History, History of the Holocaust, Memory Politics and the Politics of Memorialization, 20^th Century Conflict and Genocide

Select Publications and Current Projects:

Jones, Alan. “’Antisemitism is a Barometer of Democracy’: Confronting the Nazi Past in the West German ‘Swastika Epidemic’ of 1959-1960.” MA Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2019.

Select Conference Contributions:

“Juden Raus: Konrad Adenauer’s Response to the Swastika Epidemic of 1959-1960” University of Maine, UNB/UMaine Graduate Conference, Orono, Maine, 23 September 2018

Teaching Experience:

History of Modern Europe Part 1 1789-1914 (S. Kennedy, University of New Brunswick), Fall 2018

History of Modern Europe Part 2 1914-Present (L. Todd, University of New Brunswick) Winter 2019

HIST 2600 History of Russia (E. Fraser) Fall 2019

Description of Research:

My research explores the competing discourses of public memory of the Second World War in West Germany during the 1960s. By examining the emerging discourses between the state and civil society, especially the counter-narratives of the nascent student movements of the early 1960s, I hope to demonstrate how the dominant narrative of German victimhood promulgated by the West German government was challenged by a new generation seeking to acknowledge the past and confront what Historian Robert Moeller has called the “selective remembrance” of West German society in the 1950s. Traditional narratives have often placed this confrontation in the late 60s, with the election of Willy Brandt as Chancellor of Germany. I hope to show that this process began years earlier, and only culminated in 1968/1968, by studying a series of events in the early 1960s that challenged the popular discourse of the time.