Janet Ward
Associate Provost for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Initiatives • Professor of Philosophy • Affiliate Faculty in Langugage and Cultural Studies
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1993 • M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1989 • B.A. University of London (Combined First Class Hons.), 1985
Areas of Specialization: Memory Studies; Philosophy of Architecture, Art, Cities, and Visual Culture; Critical Theory; Border Studies; Ethics of War and Technology; History of Fascism and the Holocaust; Nietzsche and European Modernism
Janet Ward is Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Faculty in Languages and Cultural Studies,
and Associate Provost for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Initiatives at Stony
Brook University. Her fellowships and grants include awards from the ACLS, DAAD, Fulbright,
Getty Research Institute, NEH, Summer Institute for Israel Studies, and the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum. In 2022-2023, she was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow
at Yale University, and a participant in the pilot cohort of the ACLS Leadership Institute
for a New Academy (LINA). In 2023-2024 she held a Visiting Scholar appointment at
the Center for Jewish Studies in New York City. While at the University of Oklahoma
Janet served as the founding Faculty Director of the Arts and Humanities Forum, and
as Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships. She is a past president
of the German Studies Association. Her volume, Fascism in America: Past and Present, coedited with Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, was published by Cambridge University Press
in 2023; and her monograph, Sites of Holocaust Memory, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She is the author of the books Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (University of California Press, 2001). In addition to publishing over thirty-five
essays and articles, she has coedited Transnationalism and the German City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe (Berghahn Books, 2012), German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity (University Press of Colorado, 2000), and Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest (SUNY Press, 1997). In 2021, Janet edited a special issue dedicated to “Confronting Hatred: Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today” for The Journal of Holocaust Research; and in 2016 she coedited a special issue (“Terror, Trauma, Memory”) for the journal Social Science Quarterly commemorating the Oklahoma City bombing.