Professor II of History

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

(Campus at Camden); Armitage Hall, 353

Email: alees@camden.rutgers.edu

Telephone numbers: 

856-225-6071, 6080 (office) 

215-222-4784 (home)

          Dr. Lees is a historian of modern Europe and of the United States. He specializes on the social and intellectual history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany in a comparative perspective. Among his publications, the best known are Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940 (Columbia University Press and Manchester University Press, 1985) and Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany (University of Michigan Press, 2002). His edition of the autobiography of Alice Salomon, Character Is Destiny was published in 2004 (also by the University of Michigan Press).  With his wife, Lynn Hollen Lees, he has also written Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).  A member of the Rutgers-Camden faculty since 1974, he teaches broadly in the areas of European and comparative European/American history. Scroll down for additional information.

 
OFFICE  HOURS,  FALL  SEMESTER, 2010
    Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

    Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
    Thursdays, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

    Other times by appointment.

CURRICULA VITAE:
    Brief Version  Longer Version
 

COURSES BEING TAUGHT OR TO BE TAUGHT
    In Fall Semester, 2010:

        510:331 -- Europe in the Era of the First World War, 1890-1939
        512:529 -- Politics and Culture in an Age of War, Revolution, and Dictatorship (cross-listed as Liberal Studies 606:532)

    In Spring Semester, 2011:
        509:480 -- Senior Seminar: Hitler and Nazi Germany