Professor II of
History
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Camden Campus
429 Cooper Street
Camden, NJ
08102
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
Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00-12:15 and 4:15-5:00,
or by appointment.
CURRICULA VITAE:
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COURSES BEING TAUGHT OR TO BE TAUGHT
In Spring
Semester, 2012:
510:355 –
Modern Germany
525:112 –
Honors Seminar: The Making of Modern Europe,
1750-Present
In Fall Semester, 2012:
509:480 –
Senior Seminar: Britain
in the Nineteenth Century
510:331 -- Europe
in the Era of the First World War, 1890-1939
In Spring Semester, 2013:
510:332 -- Europe in the Era of the
Second World War and the Cold War, 1939-1991
512:528 – Graduate Colloquium in Comparative History: Modernity and Its Critics
in the Nineteenth Century
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Rutgers-Camden History Department