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Assistant Professor of German History and the College, The University of Chicago

Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History - Class of Spring 2021


Alice Goff is an assistant professor of German history at the University of Chicago. She received her AB from Bryn Mawr College, MS in archives and records management from the University of Michigan, and PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan’s Society of Fellows. Goff’s work centers on the history of art and politics, museums, cultural preservation, and the humanities. Her article “The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian Bronze in the Napoleonic Era” was published in Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (ed. Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra; Cornell 2018). Goff’s work has been supported by the Council for Library and Information Resources, German Academic Exchange Service, German Historical Institute, and Mabelle McLeod Lewis Foundation.

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