Andrea Orzoff is Associate Professor of History and Honors at New Mexico State University. She completed her doctorate from Stanford University in 2000.
Her book Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948 (Oxford University Press 2009, paperback 2011) was widely reviewed internationally and praised in the Atlantic and the New York Review of Books. Her articles on international organizations, East and Central European nationalism, cultural diplomacy, propaganda and the mass media, and the German-speaking chapters of the International PEN Club during the Cold War have appeared in German History, New German Critique, the Austrian History Yearbook, Nationalities Papers, and Slavic Review. Dr. Orzoff has also published an overview of democracy and democratic internationalism in interwar Europe for the Oxford Handbook on Europe 1900-1945.
Dr. Orzoff has received many awards and fellowships. Her second Fulbright research award, a Global Flex Fellowship, took her to Germany in 2017 and to Mexico and Peru in 2018. She is also a recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Commission), the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the International Research and Exchanges Board, or IREX. She has been an invited or keynote speaker at Tel Aviv University, Vanderbilt University, Cornell University, the University of Oxford, Trinity College (Dublin), and Berlin’s Freie Universität.
Her current book project, Music in Flight, tells the stories of German and Austrian classical musicians who fled Nazism for Latin America. After finishing Music in Flight, she plans to explore the topics of Anglo-American defectors to East Germany, East German propaganda in Latin America, and Mexico City’s very particular experience of the Second World War.
CONTACT:
aorzoff@nmsu.edu
http://history.nmsu.edu/people/faculty/orzoff/