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    Sonja Ostrow is Assistant Professor of Arts & Sciences and Curriculum Track Lead for the Historical Forces division at the Minerva Schools at K.G.I.

    Education

    B.A., History, Yale University, 2007

    Ph.D., History, Vanderbilt University, 2017

    Blog Posts

      Publications

      “The Practice and Rhetoric of Public Opinion Research in 1950s West Germany” (submitted)
      “Visualizing the Data of Democracy: Trans-Atlantic Experiments in Data Visualization in the 1950s” (in progress)
      “In the Virtual Classroom: Teaching with Video Conferencing,” Perspectives Daily, March 2020.
      “Opinion Polls in International Perspective: The Case of West Germany.” The Blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas, March 2016.
      “The World that Wasn’t” podcast, Episode 1: “What if Germany Won the Battle of Britain?”
      “Tailoring Truth in East Germany.” Focus on German Studies Vol. 22 (2015): 107-9. Review of Jon Berndt Olsen, Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990.

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      German Studies Association

      American Historical Association

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