Background
Marcuse, Harold was born on November 15, 1957 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Peter Michael and Frances Marcuse.
historian art historian university professor
Marcuse, Harold was born on November 15, 1957 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Peter Michael and Frances Marcuse.
Marcuse majored in physics at Wesleyan University (Bachelor 1979, magna cum laude) in Middletown, Connecticut. He earned an Master of Arts in art history from the University of Hamburg in 1987, with a thesis about a 1949 memorial dedicated "to the Victims of National Socialist Persecution and the Resistance Struggle".
In 1985, Marcuse co-produced a photographic exhibition on monuments and memorials commemorating events of the Nazi and World World War II periods. In 1986, he entered the Doctor of Philosophy program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to write a dissertation about the post-1945 history of the (former) Dachau concentration camp that examined the legacies of Dachau.
Marcuse says that since the end of World World War II, much art, literature and public debate in Germany have revolved around the issues of resistance, collaboration and complicity with the Third Reich.
He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned an Master of Arts Marcuse began teaching history at University of California Santa Barbara in 1992. He became fascinated with the different ways Germans memorialized events under Hitler"s rule.
Marcuse"s research seeks to answer what people get out of learning about historical events.
He examines the ways historical events have been portrayed over time, and the meanings various groups of people have derived from those events and portrayals. Marcuse was instrumental in connecting a student, Collette Waddell, with a Polish Holocaust survivor, Nina Morecki, which led to a book about the Holocaust that discussed not just the era, but how survivors pursued their lives afterward.
He is interested in the use of technology, such as videotaping and the Internet in history education. The use of oral history in social studies teaching.
And questions of public conceptions of history, often referred to as "collective memory".
He is the grandson of German critical theorist and philosopher Herbert Marcuse.
In art history from the University of Hamburg in 1987, with a thesis about a 1949 memorial dedicated "to the Victims of National Socialist Persecution and the Resistance Struggle".
Member American History Association, German Studies Association, Council European Studies.
Married Anette Kubitza, December 1987. Children: Aaron, Miriam.