Ronald Smelser was born on 1942 and is an American historian, author, and former professor of history at the University of Utah.
14 Facts About Ronald Smelser
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Ronald Smelser specializes in modern European history, including the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and has written several books on these topics.
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In 1978, Smelser joined the history department at the University of Utah; he became a full professor in 1983.
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Ronald Smelser taught classes at the Free University of Berlin during the summer.
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Ronald Smelser retired from the University of Utah in the 2010s, and, as of 2016, is Professor Emeritus at the school.
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Ronald Smelser is a historian of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
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Ronald Smelser has published seven edited or co-edited books and numerous articles.
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Ronald Smelser is the former president of the German Studies Association and the Conference Group for the journal Central European History, as well as a former member of the American Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC In 2001 Ronald Smelser brought the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Nazi Olympics exhibit to the University of Utah as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
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Ronald Smelser is the co-editor of four prosopographic anthologies in which he and his co-editors compiled biographical essays on leading figures of the Nazi movement and the Nazi state, authored by various historians.
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In 1993 Ronald Smelser published The Brown Elite II, which contained twenty additional sketches of the same type, co-edited with Enrico Syring.
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Ronald Smelser established the annual Holocaust "Days of Remembrance" program at the University of Utah, directing it for 21 years.
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Ronald Smelser has worked closely with the Holocaust Educational Foundation and is the editor-in-chief of the Learning about the Holocaust: A Student Guide.
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Ronald Smelser's research has focused on how several counterbalancing narratives of World WarII and the Holocaust can co-exist, with the goal of demystifying and explaining their impact on popular culture.
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Together with fellow historian Edward J Davies of the University of Utah, Smelser is the author of the 2008 book The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture.