Rita Chin

Name: Rita Chin

Title(s):

• Associate Professor

Contact Information: 734.615.9320 , rchin@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=182

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CES-EUC
• WCED
• CICS

Department Affiliation(s):

• History

Education Background: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999; B.A., History, University of Washington, 1990

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• European Studies

Related Countries:

• Germany

Research/Teaching Specialization: Late modern Europe (especially post-1945), Germany, comparative European migration, transnationalism, ethnic minorities, gender, intellectual history, cultural studies

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Late Modern Europe, post-1945 and Central Europe, Comparative Migration and Transnationalism: Ethnic Minorities and Gender, Intellectual History and Cultural Studies

Publications:

• The Guest Worker Question: Debating Diversity in Postwar West Germany. 2006. (Authored Book)
• Integration, Auslanderliteratur, and Minority Agency in the 1970s and the 1980s Germany. 2004. (Refereed Journal Article)
• A ‘Minor Literature’? The Cause of Auslanderliteratur in Postwar Germany. 2003. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Imagining a German Multiculturalism: Aras Oren and the Contested Meanings of the ‘Guest Worker,’ 1955-1980. 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Review of Batgirl Recant Argon, Turkey in Germany: The Transnational Sphere of Deutschkei. 2003. (Non-Refereed Journal Article)