Kay McAdams, Ph.D.

Kay McAdams
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Associate Professor of History
Contact Information
Humanities Center, Room 103
  • Ph.D., Indiana University
  • M.A., Indiana University
  • B.A., Nebraska Wesleyan University
  • HIS101: The Foundation of the West
  • HIS420: The First World War
  • HIS421: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust 
  • HIS472: Gender History 
  • HIS476: Film and History

 

  • History in Film
  • Holocaust in Film
  • Women, War and Peace
  • Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
  • “’Substitute Men: The struggle for equal pay for equal work in postwar East and West Germany, 1945-1960,” paper presented at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. Featured presentation for Women’s History Month, March 2008.
  • “Anatomy of a Course: Pedagogy and Higher Education,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
  • “’Coffee and Cake for the Ladies’: The Factory Women’s Committees, Gender Conflict in the Workplace, and the Construction of a Socialist Economy in East Germany, 1951-1965.” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., January 2004.
  • Fulbright Scholar (Marburg Germany)
  • Holocaust Education Foundation Summer Fellow 
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Award
  • Silberman Fellow, Silberman Seminar on The Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Hess Fellow, Hess Seminar on Geography of the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum