Kris Arthur Pangburn

435 S. Curson Ave., Apt 9M kpangburn@middlebury.edu Los Angeles, CA 90036 https://www.linkedin.com/in/krispangburn __________________________________________________________________

I am an educator who specializes in teaching

History (Europe, World, and Jewish) and the German language.

Education

! Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT) M.A. in German (expected 2019) ! University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) Ph.D. in History (2007); German cultural and intellectual history (18th/19th centuries) ! Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME) B.A., History Major (1997); Summa Cum Laude

Teaching Experience

Pasadena City College Extension – Instructor (German), Scheduled Spring 2017. I will teach elementary German to a class of college students and adults. Santa Monica College, Community Education – Instructor (German), Scheduled Spring 2017. I will teach elementary German to teenagers and adults. Wyzant Tutoring – German and History Tutor, Fall 2016 – present. Currently offering individual lessons to high school students in the German language and History. Santa Monica College – Adjunct Faculty (History), Fall 2013 – Spring 2015. Taught Jewish History (biblical times to the present) and World Civilizations I (prehistory to 1500). California State University, Los Angeles – Adjunct Faculty (History), 2009; Fall 2013 – Fall 2014. Taught Renaissance and Reformation, French Revolution and Napoleon, 19th- century Europe, 20th-century Europe, and World Civilizations I (prehistory to 500 CE). Colorado College – Visiting Assistant Professor (History), 2009 – 2013. Taught the history of Western Civilization, the Enlightenment, Death and Grieving in the West, 19th-century Europe, 20th-century Europe, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany.

UCLA – Lecturer (History), 2007 – 2008. Taught lecture courses on Western Civilization and 17th-century Europe, as well as a seminar entitled “Death and the Afterlife in History.” UCLA – Teaching Fellow (History), 2006 – 2007. Taught seminars on the German Enlightenment and German Romanticism. UCLA – Teaching Assistant (History), 2001 – 2003. Led discussion sections for the complete cycle of Western Civilization survey courses, from 3500 BCE to the present.

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Courses Taught

* To view syllabi and teaching evaluations, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/krispangburn * ! German (Beginner, Intermediate) ! World Civilizations I (Prehistory to 1500) ! Western Civilization (Antiquity to the Present) ! Jewish History (Biblical Times to the Present) ! Death and Grieving in the West ! Renaissance and Reformation ! Cultural and Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century Europe ! European Enlightenment ! German Enlightenment ! German Romanticism ! French Revolution and Napoleon ! Nineteenth-Century Europe ! Twentieth-Century Europe ! Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

Honors / Awards

1. Nominated for Cal State University’s “Outstanding Lecturer Award” (2014) 2. Fulbright Fellowship (Göttingen, Germany), Sept. 2004 – July 2005 3. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Grant, Sept. 2004 – July 2005 (declined) 4. Participant in UCLA exchange with the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, Germany, October – December, 2003 5. Carl Schurz Stipendium, awarded by the Universität Erfurt to conduct research at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, July – October, 2003 6. UCLA Four-Year Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2000-2004 7. Summa Cum Laude, Bowdoin College, 1997 8. James Bowdoin Scholar, 1993-1997

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Publications

* To view the full text of my publications, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/krispangburn *

The Essential Self: German Perspectives on Life after Death, 1770-1820 (in progress) “The Vital Organism in the Thought of Humboldt and Mill”, Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Keith Baker and Jenna Gibbs (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), 125-149. “The Religious Underpinnings of Early Prussian Liberalism: The Case of Wilhelm Grävell”, Central European History, 46, no. 4 (2013), 779-814. “Bonnet’s Theory of Palingenesis: An ‘Enlightened’ Account of Personal Resurrection?” in The Super-Enlightenment: Daring to Know Too Much, ed. Dan Edelstein (Oxford: SVEC/Voltaire Foundation, 2010), 191-214.

Conference Presentations

“In Search of the Essential Self: Debating the Afterlife in the German Late Enlightenment”, CSULA’s History Department Lecture Series, Los Angeles, California (October 2015) “Vitalist Natural Philosophy in the Political Thought of Humboldt and Mill”, Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century, Los Angeles, California (April 2012) “The Heavenly City of Early Prussian Liberalism: The Case of Wilhelm Grävell”, German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky (September 2011) “Early German Liberalism and Debate over Heavenly Happiness: The Case of Wilhelm

Grävell”, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Saratoga, New York (April 2009)

“The Reception of Charles Bonnet’s Theory of Palingenesis Among Methodist Preachers in Late Eighteenth Century Britain”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, Virginia (March 2009)

“The Science of the Supernatural: Late Enlightenment Vitalism and the ‘True’

Appearance of Johann Karl Wötzel’s Wife after Her Death”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon (March 2008)

“Vitalist Currents of Thought and New Theories of Rebirth in the German Late

Enlightenment”, German Studies Association 30th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (September 2006)

“Reading the German Debate about the Immortality of the Soul as an Investigation of the Personality, 1770-1820”, UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe, Berkeley, California (April 2004)

“Lavater and Swedenborg: Physiognomy as Spiritual Psychology”, UC Colloquium on

Early Modern Central Europe, Los Angeles, California (March 2003)

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German Language Proficiency Tests

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) – “Advanced High” (November 15, 2016) ACTFL Listening Proficiency Test (LPT) – “Superior” (October 27, 2016) ACTFL Reading Proficiency Test (RPT) – “Superior” (October 13, 2016)

Research Assistance and Editorial Work

Editorial Assistant – Jill Ann Kowalik, Theology and Dehumanization: Trauma, Grief,

and Pathological Mourning in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century German Thought and Literature, ed. Gail K. Hart (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009)

Research Assistant – Robert N. Watson, Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the

Late Renaissance (Philadelphia, PA: U of Pennsylania Press, 2006)

Membership in Professional Organizations ! American Historical Association (AHA), since 2003

! German Studies Association (GSA), since 2006

! American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), since 2016

! American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), since 2016

References 1. Dr. Peter Hanns Reill, Emeritus Professor of History (UCLA)

3370 Crystal Court, Miami, FL 33133 786-253-2826, reill@humnet.ucla.edu 2. Dr. Peter Blasenheim, Professor of History (Colorado College)

14 E. Cache La Poudre St., Colorado Springs, CO 80903 719-389-6532, PBlasenheim@coloradocollege.edu 3. Dr. Choi Chatterjee, Professor of History (California State University, Los Angeles)

King Hall B-4022, 5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90032 323-343-2023, cchatte@calstatela.edu 4. Dr. Suzanne Borghei, Chair, History Department (Santa Monica College)

305 HSS, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405 310-434-3536, borghei_suzanne@smc.edu 5. Dr. Bettina Matthias, Chair, German Department (Middlebury College)

FIC 223, 14 Old Chapel Rd., Middlebury, VT 05753 802-443-3527, bmatthia@middlebury.edu