Daniela Weiner
Teaching Assistant Professor
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Morton 114
Research
Daniela R. P. Weiner is a historian of modern European history (with a focus on Germany and Italy), modern Jewish history, and the Holocaust. Her book, Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys, was published by Cornell University Press (2024) and explores how the post-fascist countries of East Germany, West Germany, and Italy taught the Second World War and the Holocaust in their educational systems. The book specifically explores the representations of these events in textbooks. A new research project focuses on the history of baptism and conversion during the Holocaust and draws on the newly opened Vatican and Jesuit archives from the period of the Second World War.
Her research has been published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, and Journal of Contemporary History. She has received fellowships/grants from: the Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Germany, AY 2018- 2019); the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute; the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.
Her research has been published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, and Journal of Contemporary History. She has received fellowships/grants from: the Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Germany, AY 2018- 2019); the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute; the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.
Experience
Teaching Assistant Professor in the First Year Experience and Humanities, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2025-Present
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program, Stanford University, 2022-2025
Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow, Concentration in Education & Jewish Studies, School of Education, Stanford University, 2020-2022
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program, Stanford University, 2022-2025
Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow, Concentration in Education & Jewish Studies, School of Education, Stanford University, 2020-2022
Selected Publications
Book
Weiner, Daniela R. P., Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Textbooks and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “Teaching about Fascism(s): Depictions of the Relationship between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in Italian, East German, and West German Textbooks, 1950-1960” Journal of Contemporary History 58, no. 1 (2023): 136–151. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094211063097
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “American and British Efforts to Democratize Schoolbooks in Occupied Italy and Germany from 1943 to 1949.” Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 12, no. 1 (2020): 121–45. https://doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2020.120106.
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “Tendentious Texts: Holocaust Representations and Nation-Rebuilding in East German, Italian, and West German Schoolbooks, 1949–1989.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17, no. 3 (2018): 342-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2017.1396745.
Additional Publications
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “Finding Converts in the Pope Pius XII-era Church Archives,” AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Winter 2024), 98-99.
Weiner, Daniela R. P., "Should I Show This in Class?: How to Think about Using War and Atrocity Photographs in Teaching, Research, and Life" Cornell University Press Authors' Blog (September 11, 2024).
Weiner, Daniela R. P., Review of Anna Koch’s Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust, AJS Review 48, no. 2 (2024): 447-449.
Weiner, Daniela R. P. “Qualities of Effective Mentorship.” AJS News (September 2019). https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/WeinerMentorship
Weiner, Daniela R. P., Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Textbooks and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “Teaching about Fascism(s): Depictions of the Relationship between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in Italian, East German, and West German Textbooks, 1950-1960” Journal of Contemporary History 58, no. 1 (2023): 136–151. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094211063097
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “American and British Efforts to Democratize Schoolbooks in Occupied Italy and Germany from 1943 to 1949.” Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 12, no. 1 (2020): 121–45. https://doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2020.120106.
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “Tendentious Texts: Holocaust Representations and Nation-Rebuilding in East German, Italian, and West German Schoolbooks, 1949–1989.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17, no. 3 (2018): 342-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2017.1396745.
Additional Publications
Weiner, Daniela R. P., “Finding Converts in the Pope Pius XII-era Church Archives,” AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Winter 2024), 98-99.
Weiner, Daniela R. P., "Should I Show This in Class?: How to Think about Using War and Atrocity Photographs in Teaching, Research, and Life" Cornell University Press Authors' Blog (September 11, 2024).
Weiner, Daniela R. P., Review of Anna Koch’s Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust, AJS Review 48, no. 2 (2024): 447-449.
Weiner, Daniela R. P. “Qualities of Effective Mentorship.” AJS News (September 2019). https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/WeinerMentorship
Courses
Courses Taught at Stevens
• HASS 105: Knowledge, Nature, Culture (Memory)
• PRV 101: First Year Experience
Past Courses (selected)
• History of the Holocaust
• Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
• Citizenship in the 21st Century
• Rules of War
• History of Modern Germany
• HASS 105: Knowledge, Nature, Culture (Memory)
• PRV 101: First Year Experience
Past Courses (selected)
• History of the Holocaust
• Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
• Citizenship in the 21st Century
• Rules of War
• History of Modern Germany