Areas of Expertise

• Modern Germany
• World War II
• Modern Russia
• Women in European History

Dr. Kollander’s research focuses on modern German history in general and the contributions of recent German and Austrian emigres to the war against Nazism in particular.  She has served as department chair, special assistant to the dean, and as a provost fellow.

Her publications include two books:  Frederick III: Germany's Liberal Emperor  (Greenwood Press, 1995) and  "I Must Be a Part of this War": A German American’s Fight against Hitler and Nazism  (with John O'Sullivan, contributor; Fordham University Press, 2005).  Her articles have appeared in the scholarly journals  German History, European Review of History, Yearbook of German American Studies, and The Historian.

Recent publications include an article “Empress Frederick and the Women’s Movement in Nineteenth Century Germany”  Journal of International Women’s History  (2020),  and two book chapters “The Role of German and Austrian Emigres in the U.S. Army in the Liberation of Hitler’s Fortress Europe and the Denazification Process  “in Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution.   (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publishing, 2020) and “German and Austrian Child Emigres in the U.S. and the War against Nazism,” in the conference volume  Children and War: Past and Present.  (Warwick, UK: Helion and Company, 2022)

Forthcoming publications include an edited book,  The U.S. Presidency, the Holocaust and the State of Israel,  (conference volume from the 2024 Larkin Symposium, University Press of Florida 2026), an updated version of a 2013 essay “Boomerang Resistance:  German Emigres in the U.S. Army in the ETO during World War II” contribution to Thomas W. Zeiler’s two volume  A Companion to the Second World War  (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2026), and a book chapter, “German and Austrian Emigres in the U.S. Army and the Holocaust”  in The U.S. Military and the Holocaust  edited by Adam Seipp and Kaete O’Connell. (University of Texas El Paso Press, 2026). Her current manuscript project is entitled:  From Immigration to Liberation: Recent German and Austrian Emigres in the US Army and the War against Nazism.

Links of Interest

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-III-king-of-Prussia-and-emperor-of-Germany

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Courses

Undergraduate Courses

• History of Civilization from Ancient Times to 1600
• History of Civilization from 1600 to the Present 
• Introduction to Historical Study
• Senior Seminar
• Women in European History
• Hitler and Nazi Germany
• History of Modern Russia

Graduate Courses

• Teaching Practicum for Graduate Students
• Graduate Research Seminar—Nazi Germany: Politics, Culture and Society
• Graduate Readings Seminar—Resistance in Nazi Germany
• Graduate Readings Seminar: The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial
• Graduate Readings Seminar: Women in Nazi Germany

Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)