Amy Sims

Dr. Amy R. Sims is a historian who specializes in modern cultural and political history. She is particularly interested in the relationship of knowledge to action, as well as in the behavior of academics, intellectuals, and artists in crisis periods.

Research fields Sims addresses include Nazi Germany, World Wars I and II, right-wing movements, historiography, the ethics of power, and German cultural history. Currently she is at work on a book about German historians during the Third Reich.

Prior to CCA, Dr. Sims taught at Harvard, Stanford, the Stanford campuses in Vienna and Berlin, and Golden Gate University, where she chaired the Humanities & Sciences department.

She has been a fellow at Northwestern University's Faculty Institute on the Holocaust and at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies' faculty seminar on the Concentration Camp System (in Washington DC).

Presently Dr. Sims is a member of the National Trust For Historic Preservation, Humanities West, the American Historical Association, the German Studies Association, and the Conference Group on Central European History.