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Professor Charles Maier
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Professor Charles S. Maier of Harvard University is an expert on modern European and German history. Currently serving as Harvard's Levorett Saltonstall Professor of History, he has been a professor at the university since 1981. Previously he served as a professor of history at Duke University and a visiting professor at Fakultät fur Geschichtswissenschaft, Universitat Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in history from Harvard in 1960, went on to study at Oxford University from 1960-61 and received his PhD in history from Harvard in March of 1967.
Professor Maier is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has authored such notable, award-winning works as "The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust and German National Identity;" "Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade after World War I" and "Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany." Professor Maier has also edited and contributed to many volumes on Germany and Europe including "The Cold War in Europe: Era of a Divided Continent" and "The Marshall Plan and Germany."
His extensive list of accolades includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, appointment as a Distinguished Senior Visitor to the American Academy in Berlin and the Commander's Cross of the German Federal Republic.
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Professor Cornelius Schnauber
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Professor Cornelius Schnauber was born April 18, 1939, near Dresden, Germany. He studied German literature, phonetics and political science at the University of Hamburg, and received his doctoral degree in 1968. Currently, he teaches German Literature and Language Psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he is also the director of the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. In addition, since 1992, Professor Schnauber has served as the German Diction
Coach for the Los Angeles Opera.
Among his publications are: "Wie Hitler sprach und schrieb, Zur Psychologie der faschistischen Rhetorik" ("How Hitler Spoke and Wrote. The Psychology of Fascist Rhetoric"); "Pragmatischer Humanismus, Thesen Analysen Konsequenzen" ("Pragmatic Humanism, Theses, Analyses, Consequences"); "Deine Träume - Mein Gedicht. Eugen Gomringer und die konkrete Poesie" ("Your Dreams -- My Poem: Eugen Gomringer and the Concrete Poetry"); and "Spaziergänge durch das Hollywood der Emigranten," ("Hollywood Haven, Home and Haunts of the European Emigres and Exiles in Los Angeles."). He also wrote several biographies ("Fritz Lang in Hollywood," "Placido Domingo"), novels and plays.
In addition, he has authored numerous articles on contemporary German literature, language psychology and music theory. Professor Schnauber writes regularly for German television and radio programs as well as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a leading European newspaper.
His extensive list of honors includes: Distinction of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria; The Federal Republic of Germany Friendship Award; The Cross of the Order of Merit for the Federal Republic of Germany; Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; and Resolution Cornelius Schnauber, awarded by the Los Angeles City Council "for his contributions to the understanding of the cultural heritage of the City of Los Angeles and the longstanding history of friendship
between Berlin and Los Angeles."
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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has been the spiritual leader of the Synagogue for the Performing Arts since 1993. A respected theological author, his books have sold over half a million copies. His works include "Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History," which is the most widely selling book on Judaism of the past two decades; "Words that Hurt, Words that Heal," the motivating force behind the 1996 Senate Resolution to establish a "National Speak No Evil Day" throughout the United States; and the novel "An Eye for an Eye," which became the basis for four episodes of David Kelly's "The Practice." Ordained at Yeshiva University in New York, Rabbi Telushkin pursued graduate studies in Jewish History at Columbia University. He served as the Director of Education at Brandeis Bardin Institute in Simi Valley, California and was an associate of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Rabbi Teluskin lectures throughout the United States.
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Peter Sussman
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Peter Sussman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Entertainment Group at Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. and an Executive Producer on HITLER: The Rise of Evil.
Alliance Atlantis's extensive body of work includes several films dealing
with stories and events in connection with the Holocaust and World War II. Many of these films were executive produced by Mr. Sussman and they include the
mini-series "Nuremberg" for TNT, nominated for four Emmy Awards (winner of one) and three Golden Globe Awards and the mini-series "Haven" for CBS, nominated for three Emmy Awards and winner of the 2001 Humanitas Award.
Mr. Sussman was also an Executive Producer of the award winning feature film "The Quarrel," based on the celebrated Yiddish short story by Chaim Grade entitled "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner." Other Alliance Atlantis feature films on subjects relating to the Holocaust include "Sunshine," nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Film, as well as "Prisoner of Paradise," nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 for Best Feature Documentary.
In addition, Mr. Sussman executive produced the mini-series "Joan of Arc" for CBS, which was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards (winner of one), four Golden Globe Awards, and won the Television Critics Award for Best Movie, Mini-Series or Special.
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Christian Duguay
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Christian Duguay was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He began his association with Alliance Atlantis and Executive Producer Peter Sussman when he first worked as a steadycam operator on the award winning feature film "The Quarrel." Duguay's directorial credits include the mini-series "Joan of Arc" for CBS, starring Leelee Sobieski and Peter O'Toole, which was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards (winner of one), four Golden Globe Awards, and winner of the Television Critics' Award for Best Movie, Mini-Series or Special, as well as the feature films "Extreme Ops," "The Art of War" "Live Wire" and "The Assignment."
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James Cross Giblin
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James Cross Giblin is the author if many highly regarded nonfiction books for young readers. His latest, "The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler," has gone on to win several national awards including the 2002 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children, given by the American Library Association as well as the Notable Children's Book Award of 2002, given by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Well reviewed by critics and well received by educators, this biography joins Giblin's other books, which include "Charles Lindberg: A Human Hero," "The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones" and "Benjamin Franklin." Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Giblin now resides in New York City.
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Karen Riley PhD
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Karen Riley is currently an associate professor at Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama and President of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History. She received her M.A. in History from the University of Central Florida and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in Curriculum Studies. Ms. Riley teaches a unique, successful, Neo Nazi sensitizing and deprogramming class aimed at young hate crime offenders. Her published works include the chapters "The Holocaust and Historical Empathy: The Politics of Understanding" in "Historical Empathy and the Social Studies Classroom and Kristallnacht," edited by Elizabeth A. Yeager and O.L. Davids, Jr., "Roosevelt and American Jewry" in "The Netherlands and Nazi Genocide," edited by G. Jan Colign and Marcia S. Littell as well as the book, "Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of wartime internment and the children of arrested enemy aliens."
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