Dr. Brian K. Feltman

Professor of History (2012) 
B.A., M.A., Clemson University, 1999, 2002; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2010

Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Germany,  War and Society, Masculinity, The First and Second World Wars

Upper-Level Courses:

• HIST 3432 Modern Germany
• HIST 3436 The Holocaust
• HIST 4531 World War I
• HIST 5335 World War II

Website: https://georgiasouthern.academia.edu/BrianKFeltman

Contact Information: 

Department of History
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8054
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054

Office: #3014, Interdisciplinary Academic Building
Tel.: 912-478-5835
Email: bfeltman@georgiasouthern.edu

Selected Publications: 

• The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, Hardcover 2015, Paperback 2017).
• Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914-1956: Consorting with the Enemy (London: Palgrave, 2022), ed. with Matthias Reiss.
• “Heraus mit unseren Gefangenen!’ The German Homefront & Prisoner of War Repatriation, 1918-1919,” in Marcel Berni and Tamara Cubito, eds., Captivity in War during the Twentieth Century: The Forgotten Diplomatic Role of Transnational Actors (London: Palgrave, 2021), pp. 47-72
• “Down, but not Out: Manhood and the American Prisoner of War Experience in the First World War,” in Lorien Foote and Daniel Krebs, eds., Beyond the Prison Camps: Captive Soldiers and Their Roles in American Warfare. (Manhattan, KS: The University of Kansas Press, 2021), pp. 
• “We Don’t Want Any German Off-Spring After These Prisoners Left Here”: German Military Prisoners and British Women in the First World War.”” Gender & History, March 2018, pp. 110-130.
• “Conceptions of Comradeship: Hans H. Pinkus and the Nazification of the  Reichsvereinigung Ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Dec. 2016, pp. 163-182.
• “Letters from Captivity: The First World War Correspondence of the German Prisoners of War in the United Kingdom,” in Michael Neiberg and Jennifer Keene, eds. Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies (Boston: Brill, 2010).
• “Tolerance as a Crime? The British Treatment of German Prisoners of War on the Western Front, 1914-1918,“ War in History, November 2010

Professional Activities, Honors, and Awards:

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2023
• Co-Host: Military Historians are People, Too! Podcast (2021-Present)
• University Award of Excellence, Team Award for Americans & the Holocaust Program, 2023
• Deutscher Akademischer Austaush Dienst (DAAD) Re-Invitation Grant, FU Berlin, 2016.
• Albert’s Researcher Reunion Grant, International Office, Universität zu Köln, 2014.
• The Society for Military History’s Coffman First Manuscript Prize, 2013.
• Thyssen-Heideking Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute & Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne), 2010-11.

Current Research:

• Sacrifice on Display: The Culture of Everyday Remembrance in Germany, 1914-1933

Last updated: 1/10/2023