BENJAMIN NIENASS nienass.weebly.com EMPLOYMENT 2018- Assistant Professor Department of Political Science and Law, Montclair State University 2017-2018 Humanities Center Fellow University of Rochester 2014-2017 Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, California State University San Marcos 2013-2014 Postdoctoral Fellow Collège d'études mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'homme EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D. in Politics The New School for Social Research, New York Dissertation Chair: Nancy Fraser 2006 M.A. in Political Science University of Leiden, Netherlands 2004 M.A. in International Relations and European Studies Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 2003 B.A. in European Studies University of Amsterdam, Netherlands PUBLICATIONS Books & Special Issues Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Social Memory in the Age of Information. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. Edited with Lindsey Freeman and Rachel Daniell. (Paperback in 2017) Borders and the Politics of Mourning. Social Research 83, 2 (2016). Edited and introduction with Alexandra Memory, Materiality, Sensuality. Memory Studies 9, 1 (2016). Edited and introduction with Lindsey Freeman and Rachel Daniell. Screen Memory. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 26, 1 (2013). Edited and introduction with Lindsey Freeman and Laliv Melamed. Journal Articles Transnational Memories, National Memory Regimes: Recognizing the Armenian Genocide in Germany. German Studies Review 43 (2020). Deaths, Visibility, and Responsibility: The Politics of Mourning at the U.S.- Mexico Border. Social Research 83 (2016): 421-451. With Alexandra
Invisible Victims: Undocumented Migrants and the Aftermath of September 11. Politics & Society 42 (2014): 399-421. With Alexandra Authority without Foundations: Arendt and the Paradox of Postwar German Memory Politics. The Review of Politics 76 (2014): 415-437. With J. Matthew Hoye. Postnational Relations to the Past: A European Ethics of Memory? International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 26 (2013): 41-55. Performing the Global. Globalizations 10 (2013): 533-538. The Limits of Memory. International Social Science Journal 62 (2012): 89 102. With Ross Poole. Book Chapters Mexico City s Memorial to the Victims of Violence and the Facade of Participation. In Museums as Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights, edited by Joyce Apsel and Amy Sodaro. Routledge, 2019. With Alexandra Death, Visibility, and the Politics of Dissensus at the United States-Mexico Border. In Subjectivation: Political Theory in Contemporary Practices, edited by Andreas Oberprantacher and Andrei Siclodi. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. With Alexandra Making Absence Present: The September 11 Memorial. In Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, edited by Anna Lisa Tota and Trever Hagen. New York, Oxford: Routledge, 2015: 398-413. With Alexandra (Translated into Italian in Sociologie della memoria. Rome: Carocci (2018). Introduction: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information. and Conclusion: Comments on Silence, Screen, and Spectacle. In Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information, edited by Lindsey Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014: 1-14, 239-243. With Lindsey Freeman and Rachel Daniell. Book Reviews Review of The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies. Memory Studies 10 (2017). Review of What about me? The struggle for identity in a market-based society. Journal of Economic Psychology 49 (2015): 205-206. With Stefan Trautmann. Ghostly Politics. (Review of The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations. ) Time and Society 24 (2015): 129-133. Review of Money, Blood, and Revolution. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 52 (2014): 4-5. With Stefan Trautmann. The Past is Another Country: The Memory of Migration and the Migration of Memory. (Review of History, Memory, and Migration: Perceptions of the Past and the Politics of Incorporation and Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies. ) Migration Studies 1 (2013): 117-122. 2
Review of Talkin bout my generation : Conflicts of Generation Building and Europe s 1968. Memory Studies 6 (2013): 113-115. Review of How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life. Journal of Socio-Economics 45 (2013): 94-95. With Stefan Trautmann. Other Publications Translations Bringing The Dead Back Into Society: An Interview With Mercedes Doretti. With Alexandra Delano and Pablo Dominguez. Social Research 83 (2016): 511-534. Anerkennung umdenken. German Translation of Rethinking Recognition by Nancy Fraser, In Anerkennung (special issue), edited by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch and Christopher Zurn, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 21 (2009): 201-212. CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS 2018 Memory, Deliberation, Agonism. German Studies Association. Pittsburgh, September 27-30. Countermonuments and Memory Activism in Mexico. Latin American Studies Association. Barcelona, May 23-26. With Alexandra Two New Books on Memory Activism, Invited Panelist, 25th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 28-30. 2017 Constraints of Recognition. Memory Studies Association. Copenhagen, December 14-16. Transnational Memories, National Memory Regimes. German Studies Association. Atlanta, October 5-8. Reclaiming Memory and Mourning: Grievability and Resistance in Mexico. Cultural Studies Association Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 25-27. With Alexandra Polarization or Convergence? A Critical Discourse Analysis of European Press Coverage of the Refugee Crisis. Western Political Science Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, April 13-15, 2017. With Dino Bozonelos. Reclaiming Memory and Mourning: Grievability and Resistance in Mexico. Making Home in Wounded Spaces: Memory, Design, and the Spatial, Parsons School of Design, March 3-4, 2017. With Alexandra 2016 Panelist, Social Research Special Issue Launch Event, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, New School, Oct 6. Beyond Recognition? Memorializing the Armenian Genocide in Germany. German Studies Association. San Diego, Sep 29-Oct 2. Deaths, Visibility, and Responsibility. Migration and Human Safety: An International Conference. Yale University, March 31. With Alexandra The Politics of Mourning at the US-Mexico Border. Fronteras: The Latin American Border Experience. Lehigh University, March 30. With Alexandra 3
Border Objects. Translating Memory and Remembrance Across the Disciplines. SUNY New Paltz, March 11. 2015 The Politics of Mourning. Symposium: Memory, Migration, and Violence. Princeton University, March 13. With Alexandra 2014 25 Years Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Political Assessment. Invited Chambers Lecture Panelist, University of San Diego, November 11. Memory as Abnormal Justice. American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., August 28-31. Memory between Supranational Regulation and Micro-Processes. Invited Lecture, University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 15. Cosmopolitization at the European Border: The case of Lampedusa. Réunion annuelle du Collège d'études mondiales, Paris, France, May 7. With Sabine Selchow. Contesting the Boundaries of Grievable Life: US Border Deaths and the Politics of Mourning. Symposium: Political Abilities - The Sense of Subjectification, University of Innsbruck, Austria, March 27-29. Mourning (at) the Border. Représenter l exil: l espace, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l Homme, Paris, France, February 13. 2013 Memory, Migration, and the September 11 Memorial. The 25th SASE Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy, June 27-29. With Alexandra Memory and Radical Democracy: the case of Sheldon Wolin. Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 11-14. 2012 Undocumented Migration and the September 11 Memorial. The Rights of Non-Citizens?, The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at The New School (ICMEC), September 28-29. With Alexandra Collective Memory and Postnational Political Membership. American Political Science Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. The Paradox of German Refoundation. Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12-15. With Jonathon Hoye. The Role of the Past in Constructing a Democratic Europe (MPSA Program Co-Chair Panel). Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12-15. 2011 Europe s Postnational Relations to the Past. Rethinking Europe: New Approaches to the Study of Europe, DAAD Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 27-31. A European Ethics of Memory? Interdisciplinary Memory Conference, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, March 24-26. 4
TEACHING Montclair State University (Since Fall 2018) Essentials of Political Thought Utopia and Intentional Communities (Honors Course) Introduction to Politics California State University European Politics: Immigration, Diversity, and Accommodation (Assistant Professor, Senior Seminar: Transitional Justice 2014-2017) The Politics of Memory World Political Systems University of San Diego (Visiting Professor, 2016) The New School (Teaching Fellow, Lecturer, 2011-2013) Yeshiva University (Lecturer, 2011-2013) Comparative Politics of Memory in Europe (Graduate Seminar) Reframing the Political: Introduction to Political Theory Present Pasts: The Rise of Global Memory Politics Power and the State Great Political Thinkers: Introduction to Political Philosophy The Politics of Memory The Politics of Identity in Europe Introduction to Comparative Politics Ethnic Conflict and Genocide (cross-listed with Sociology) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Political Science Association German Studies Association (Co-Chair, Memory Studies Network, 2017-2019) Memory Studies Association 5