Dr. Elana Passman

Dr. Elana Passman is a Professor of History and Clerk of the Faculty at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. She is a graduate of Yale University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies and the recipient of a Bourse Chateaubriand from the French Embassy. Her book, The French-German Dynamic in an Age of Conflict, 1925-1963: Enemies, Collaborators, Friends (Routledge, 2025) illuminates how entangled were the histories of 1920s rapprochement, Nazi-Era collaborationism, and postwar reconciliation. Dr. Passman's current book project, a microhistory of a German-Jewish family from the early 19th century to the 1960s, is rooted in her family papers.

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