Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer Posted on May 5th, 2022 by

Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) gave the Lazaroff Lecture in Jewish History at Ohio University on April 13. Her Talk was entitled “Sex, Racial Purity, and Imperialism: German Genocide in Africa and the Third Reich.” Earlier in the month, on April 4, Dr. Baer gave a talk for the Richmond, VA Jewish Community Council entitled “The Golem Lives! In Prague, In Legend, and in Comics!” In her capacity as a volunteer at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, she prerecorded an interview with author Wendy Holden which will be screened for museum donors in May 2022. In February, she presented a talk for the Holocaust Studies Center at the Mercer Community College in New Jersey. She is scheduled give a talk about Lucy Buck, a Civil War diarist, in Front Royal, VA in late May 2022, sponsored by the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Association.

 

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