I grew up and attended college in Minnesota, receiving a BA in History
and German. After college, I spent one year volunteering with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site in Germany where I gave tours to German high school students and assisted with a traveling exhibition.
Thereafter, I began graduate studies in modern European history at the University of California, San Diego with minor fields of study in global history and urban history. I lived in Berlin for more than two years while researching for and writing my dissertation. The UC San Diego History faculty awarded me the department’s best dissertation prize in 2018 for my dissertation “Degenerate Spaces: The Coordination of Space in Nazi Germany.”
After completing my PhD, I spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in Israel before landing in North Carolina, where I currently work as an assistant professor at UNC Greensboro. My expertise lies in modern European history, modern German history, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, urban history, and global and transnational history.
My research has been supported by fellowships and grants from multiple institutions, including the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Central European History Society, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the USC Shoah Foundation, and the German Historical Institute. I have presented at conferences and workshops in the United States, Germany, Israel, Poland, England, France, and the Czech Republic.
External links:
- faculty profile page for UNC Greensboro, History Department
- affiliated scholar page at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, USC Shoah Foundation
- webpage for the North Carolina German Studies Seminar & Workshop Series
- former fellow profile at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
- research fellow profile at the USC Shoah Foundation
Teresa Walch 