Jeffrey Peck is a Professor in the "Communication, Culture and Technology" Program at Georgetown University and has been a Senior Fellow in Residence at AICGS since 2002. From 1999-2002, he was the first Director of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University and the Universit é de Montréal. He was also Co-Director of the Institute of European Studies at York University and the University of Toronto.

After receiving his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1974, he completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. From 1979 until 1992 he was a faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle in the Departments of German, Comparative Literature and in the Program in Jewish Studies. From 1992-1999, he was a faculty member at the Center for German and European Studies, the German Department, and directed the Jewish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University.

During 1990-1991, he was a Fulbright Professor at the Free University, Berlin, and in the Summer Semester, 1994, he taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has also been the recipient of grants from the DAAD, ACLS, IREX, as well as many grants from the University of Washington and Georgetown. In 1996-1997, he was a Volkswagen Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Postwar German History at AICGS. In 2004 he received a Fulbright grant for a German Studies Seminar, "Visual Culture in Germany: Television, Film, and Internet."

His research focuses on questions of national and minority identities, particularly German-Jewish life since unification and contemporary responses to the Holocaust in a transatlantic context. In 2004, he edited an AICGS report on "The Jewish Voice in Transatlantic Relations" and in 2005 published an essay for AICGS on "American Jews in an Evangelical America." In that context, his work has moved increasingly towards transatlantic questions about nationality, ethnicity, religion, culture, and politics. With regard to politics, he also is interested in the effects of globalization, technology and the media on cultural identities, the relationship between culture and foreign policy, and the role of culture in the teaching of international studies as part of interdisciplinary global education.

Dr. Peck's Publications