U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty

Edward Dickinson
Associate Professor

E: erdickinson@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-754-8373
O: 3224 SSH

Academic Biography

I studied at U.C. Santa Cruz (BA), Columbia University (MA), and U.C. Berkeley (Ph.D.), completing my doctorate in 1991. My dissertation was on child welfare policy in Germany, 1880-1961. From 1991 to 2000, I taught at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand; from 2001 to 2007 I taught at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Research Interests

Modern European cultural history; social policy; civil society and the state; history of gender and sexuality; imperialism; aesthetics and politics; recreation.

Selected Publications

The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic (Harvard UP, 1996)

"Policing Sex in Germany, 1882-1982: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis" (forthcoming, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2007)

"Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Reflections On Our Discourse Concerning 'Modernity,'" Central European History 37 (2004): 1-48

"The Men's Christian Morality Movement in Germany, 1880-1914: Some Reflections on Sex, Politics, and Sexual Politics," Journal of Modern History75 (2003): 59-110