Peter Carrier

studied German Studies and Comparative Literature from 1983 to 1991 at the University of Leeds and the Université Paris VIII, and obtained his PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2000 with a study about Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany (Berghahn, 2005). He has held posts lecturing in the fields of Philology, Cultural Studies and Political Science at the Universität Tübingen, the Université Paris VII, the Freie Universität Berlin and the Central European University in Budapest. He is an active editorial committee member of the journals Zeithistorische Forschungen in Potsdam und National Identities in London. Carrier is a lecturer in Holocaust Studies at Queen's University (Canada) in Hailsham, UK. His current research focuses on the rhetoric of memory in political communication, and on the ethical precepts of contemporary discourse on the Shoah. He has worked at the Georg Eckert Institute as a research fellow and editor since May 2007.

Publications

• ‘Fear and Deference in Holocaust Education. The Pitfalls of “Engagement Teaching” According to a Report by the British Historical Association’, Human Affairs 1, 2012, pp. 43-55.
• ‘Space and Identity. Constructions of National Identities in an Age of Globalisation’ (mit Elfie Rembold), National Identities 4, 2011, pp. 361-376.
• 'Anti-totalitarian Rhetoric in Contemporary German Politics. Its Ambivalent Objects and Consistent Metaphors', Human Affairs 1, 2011, pp. 27-34.
• 'L'ambiguïté du sentiment national à l'école en Allemagne contemporaine face au souvenir de la Shoah', in Benoit Falaize et al., eds., Ecole et nation, Lyon: Editions de l'Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique (forthcoming).
•  'Remembering the Holocaust during National Socialism in Germany 1933-1945' Shi Lin (Historical Review) (Mandarin) 3, 2011, pp. 33-48.
• 'Holocaust Memoriography and the Impact of Memory on the Historiography of the Holocaust',  in Bill Niven and Stefan Berger (eds), Writing History: Memory Theory and Historical Writing, London: Hodder Arnold (forthcoming).
• 'Political and Ethical Contexts of Collective Memories of the Second World War' in Withold Bronner and Arja Rosenholm, eds, Recalling the Past – (Re)constructing the Past. Collective and Individual Memory of World War II in Russia and Germany (Helsinki: Kikimora Press, 2008), pp. 245-56.
•  ‘The Contemporary Discourse of Memory and the Civilising Process’, in Hans-Jürgen Grabbe and Sabine Schindler, eds, The Merits of Memory: Concepts, Contexts, Debates (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007), pp. 119-132. 
•  ‘French and German Memories of the Second World War since 1989’, National Identities 4, 2006, pp. 349-366. 
• Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany (Oxford & New York: Berghahn, 2005). 

• ‘Offene und verborgene Diskurse über nationale Identität in Deutschland. Das Beispiel Erinnerungskultur’, in Ferenc Lendvai, ed., Verfassungspatriotismus und nationale Identität. Ein deutsch-ungarisch-tschechisch-polnischer Dialog (Miskolc: University of Miskolc Press, 2003), pp. 34-49. 

• ‘Pierre Noras Les Lieux de mémoire als Diagnose und Symptom der zeitgenössischen Erinnerungskult’, in Gerhard Echterhoff and Martin Saar, eds, Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns: Maurice Halbwachs und das Paradigma des kollektiven Gedächtnisses (Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002) pp. 141-162. 

• ‘Fiksiranje sjecanja. Spomenik ubijenim europskim zidovima u berlinu’ (Memorial Fixation. The Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Zivot Umjetnosti 1, 2001, pp. 118-131 (trans. Suzana Jukic, Kroatien). 

• ‘“National Reconciliation”? Mitterrand, Chirac and the Commemorations of Vichy 1992-95’, National Identities 2, 2000, pp. 127-144. 

• ‘Places, Politics and the Archiving of Contemporary Memory in Pierre Nora’s Les Lieux de mémoire’, in Susannah Radstone, ed., Memory and Methodology (Oxford: Berg, 2000) pp. 37-58. 

• ‘Berlin as an Urban Archive. The Institutionalisation of History in Monumental Projects since 1989’, in Christine Bernier, ed., Mémoire et archive (Montreal: Musée d'Art Contemporain, 2000) pp. 35-48. 

• ‘Monumentalizacija Nacije? “Spomenik umorenim Zidom Evrope” v Berlinu, 1988-98’ (National Monuments? The ‘Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe’ in Berlin, 1988-98), in Borec 575-576, 1999, pp. 6-27 (trans. Lev Kreft, Slovenien). 

• ‘Historical Traces of the Present: the Uses of Commemoration’, in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 2, 1996, pp. 431-445. 

Reviews, shorter articles 

• Rezension: Silke Segler-Messner, Archive der Erinnerung. Literarische Zeugnisse des Überlebens nach der Shoah in Frankreich (Cologne: Böhlau, 2005), and Jens Birkmeyer and Cornelia Blasberg, eds, Erinnern des Holocaust? Eine neue Generation sucht Antworten (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2006), in Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (online), 2009.
• Review: Régis Schlagdenhauffen, La bibliothèque vide et le mémorial de l’Holocauste de Berlin. Lieux de mémoire pour construire l’Histoire (Paris: Harmattan, 2005), in Patterns of Prejudice, 3 2007. 

• ‘The Holocaust in France’, France 1815 to 2003, 2005 (http://www.port.ac.uk/france1815to2003). 

• ‘Soziale Geräusche. Das Kunstprojekt von Judith Siegmund über die Grenze der EU’, ZAG 45, 2003. 

• Review: Gary Bruce, Resistance with the People. Repression and Resistance in Eastern Germany 1945-1955 (Oxford, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), in German as a Foreign Language 2, 2003, pp. 122-25. 

• ‘The Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorations of the 1953 Uprisings in East Germany’, Contemporary Review 1652, 2003, pp. 143-147. 

• Review: Akademie der Künste (ed.), Denkmale und kulturelles Gedächtnis nach dem Ende der Ost-West-Konfrontation (Berlin, Jovis Verlag, 2000), in European Review of History 1, 2001, pp. 117-120. 

• Review: Michael Löwy, Fatherland or Mother Earth? Essays on the National Question (London & Stirling: Pluto Press, 1998), in Nations and Nationalism 4, 1999, pp. 582-584. 

• Review: Michel Wieviorka (ed.), Une société fragmentée? Le multiculturalisme en débat, (Paris: La Découverte 1996), und Gérard Noiriel, The French Melting Pot. Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, (Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press 1996), in Nations and Nationalism 2, 1998, pp. 282-286. 

• ‘Identités nationales’, Vingtième Siècle 60, 1998, pp. 125-127. 

• Review: Winfried Speitkamp (ed.), Denkmalsturz. Zur Konfliktgeschichte politischer Symbolik, (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1997) in Journal of European Studies 109-110, 1998, pp. 202-204. 

• ‘Die Göttin der modernen Religion’, Der Tagesspiegel, 1 July 1998, pp. 25. 

• Conference report: ‘Vom Prozeß zur Geschichte’, in Modern and Contemporary France 3, 1998, pp. 367-369. 

• ‘Impatience on a Monument’, The Spectator, 10. Januar, 1998, pp. 34. 

• ‘Reflections of a German Statesman: An Interview with Egon Bahr’, Contemporary Review, 1579, 1997, pp. 65-69 (in collaboration with Jörg Beige). 

• Review: Jürgen Kocka, Vereinigungskrise, and Etienne François et al, ed., Nation und Emotion (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1995) in German Politics 2, 1997, pp. 202-204. 

• ‘Whose Past?’ The Times Literary Supplement, 23 August 1997, pp. 29. 

• ‘Desirable Dissent’, The Times Literary Supplement, 14 June 1997, pp. 29. 

• Review: Dirk Hoeges, Kontroverse am Abgrund: Ernst Robert Curtius und Karl Mannheim. Intellektuelle und 'freischwebende Intelligenz' in der Weimarer Republik (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag), in Storia della Storiografia 29, 1996, pp. 147-151. 

• ‘Identity Crisis’, The Times Literary Supplement, 4 August 1995, pp. 27. 

• Review: Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Le trait empoisonné: réflexions sur l'affaire Jean Moulin (Paris: Editions La Découverte, 1993), in French History 2, 1995, pp. 262-264. 

• ‘Rights for the Citizen’, The Times Literary Supplement, 7 April 1995, pp. 30-31. 

• ‘The Role of Nations’, The Times Literary Supplement, 25 November 1994, pp. 6. 

• ‘Vichy France’, Modern and Contemporary France 3, 1994, pp. 321-324. 

• Review: Esprit, in The Times Literary Supplement, 26 November 1993, pp. 23-24. 

• ‘Troubled Vichy Waters’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 18 June 1992, pp. 19. 

• ‘Rewriting Vichy after Fifty Years’, Contemporary Review 1522, 1992, pp. 232-235. 

• Review: Stéphane Mosès, L'ange de l'histoire: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1992), in Storia della Storiografia 22, 1992, pp. 149-152. 

• ‘Prodigal Son of the Prussian Psyche’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 November 1991, pp. 17. 

• Review: Peter Schneider, Deutsche Ängste  (Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1988), in The Modern Language Review 85, 1991, pp. 1039-1041. 

• ‘After the Wall, the Rubble’, New Statesman and Society 78, 1989, pp. 37-38.