Thomas O. Haakenson

Haakenson is Associate Professor in Critical Studies and Visual Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, USA. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, as well as graduate-level minors in German and the History of Science and Technology. In 2013 he completed a Certificate in Program Evaluation from the Department of Organization Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota.

Haakenson is currently the co-editor of the book series Visual Cultures and German Contexts with Bloomsbury, and is the former co-editor of the book series German Visual Culture with Peter Lang Oxford. He has co-edited several anthologies, including Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered with Gaspare M. Genna and Ian W. Wilson; Representations of German Identity with Deborah Ascher Barnstone; and Spectacle, with Jennifer L. Creech. He also has been published widely, including in New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review, and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism and Memorialization in Germany Since 1945.

Haakenson has received awards and fellowships from the United States Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies (2003-2004) among others.

Haakenson also serves as Chair of the U.S. Fulbright Association's Chapter Advisory Board, as well as on the Advisory Board and on the Summer Workshop Program Committee for the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.

Visual Cultures and German Contexts book series (current editor): https://bloomsbury.com/us/series/visual-cultures-and-german-contexts/

German Visual Culture book series (former editor): https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/GVC

Amazon (select publications): https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B01DUR6TU4?redirectedFromKindleDbs=true

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