Geoffrey Cocks

Professor of History
European History

Office: Robinson Hall 209
Phone: 517/629-0390
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Personal site: http://campus.albion.edu/gcocks

Education

A.B., Occidental College, 1970; M.A., 1971, Ph.D., UCLA, 1975. Appointed 1975.

Courses Offered

1500 Europe 2000 (History 103); 1789 Europe 1918 (History 217); 1918 Europe 1989 (History 218); Film Images of World War II (History/Political Science 229, team-taught); Modern Russia (History 313); Modern Germany (History 390); The Irrational in History (History 395); Kubrick (History 402); The Holocaust (LA 101, First-Year Experience); Great Issues in Fine Arts: Kubrick (HSP 175H, Honors); Kubrick, Film and the Holocaust (History 402.3), Histories of Nazi Germany (HSP 155 H), Film Images of World War II (HSP 131 H).

Publications

He is the author of many books and articles, including Psychotherapy in the Third Reich (Oxford UP 1985, Transaction Publishers 1997), German Professions, 1800-1950 (1990), The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut (1994), Medicine and Modernity (1996), Treating Mind and Body (Transaction Publishers 1998), and Psycho/History: Readings in the Method of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and History (Yale University Press, 1987) , The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust (Color Illustrations), and Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History (Wisconsin Press 2006)

Recent Research

The State of Health:  Illness in Nazi Germany (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2012)

"A Quality of Obession Considerably Further East:  The Holocaust in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick," Shofar:  Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 28 (2010):  72-85

"Rechts um die Ecke rum:  Wichmannstrasse, Berggasse, Keithstrasse, 1933-1945," in Psychoanalyse in totalitaeren und autoritaeren Regimen (Frankfurt am Main:  Brandes & Apsel, 2010), pp.35-57

"Die Holzauktion:  Psychotherapie im Nationalsozialismus," Symposium Address, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, April 30, 2011

Featured In ...

Room 237 (Director, Rodney Ascher), premiere Sundance Film Festival, January 23, 2012

Other Interests

The Nizkor Project: A Holocaust Remembrance, H German, The Internet Movie Database, Stanley Kubrick on the Web