Pamela E. Swett
{{Short description|Canadian professor}}
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| title = Dean of Humanities McMaster University
| termstart = July 1, 2019
| alma_mater = Bryn Mawr College (BA)
Brown University (PhD)
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Pamela E. Swett is a Canadian-American historian of 20th-century Germany and professor in the History department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Swett has been the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University since 2019.{{Cite web |title=Swett, Pamela E. 1970– {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/swett-pamela-e-1970 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
Education and career
Swett has a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College. She completed her Ph.D. at Brown University in 1999.{{Cite web |last=Swett |first=Pamela Eden |date=1999 |title=Neighborhood mobilization and the violence of collapse : Berlin political culture, 1929-1933 |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/48091152 |access-date=2024-05-05 |website= |language=en}} She moved to McMaster University in 1999, and was promoted to full professor by 2015.{{Cite web |title=Pamela E Swett - McMaster Experts |url=https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/swettp |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=experts.mcmaster.ca}} In 2019 she became the dean of humanities at McMaster.{{Cite web |title=Pamela Swett is the next dean of humanities |url=https://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/pamela-swett-is-the-next-dean-of-humanities/ |access-date=2024-04-17 |language=en-US}}
Work
Swett's research is focused on the social and cultural history of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. She is the author of several books and articles and is a coeditor of Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany with Moritz Föllmer (2022); Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany (2011) with Fabrice d'Almeida and Corey Ross; and Selling Modernity: advertising in twentieth-century Germany (2007) with Jonathan Wiesen and Jonathan Zatlin. Swett and Wiesen are also coeditors of the Nazi Germany section of the online resource "German History in Documents and Images" by the German Historical Institute.[https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945]
As dean, Swett has played a key role in the establishment of the Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement.{{Cite web |title=Announcements - March 2024 |url=https://universityaffairs.ca/news/people-on-the-move/announcements-march-2024/ |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=University Affairs |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=McMaster University - Search begins for Wilson College director and endowed chair |url=https://educationnewscanada.com/social/lhde/article/education/level/university/1/1002290/Search-begins-for-Wilson-College-director-and-endowed-chair.htm |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=Education News Canada |language=en}} In September 2022, Swett announced that the humanities at McMaster would be receiving a donation of 50 million dollars, the largest ever gift to the humanities in Canada from Lynton "Red" Wilson. The gift will establish a new multi-disciplinary college at McMaster; the Wilson College will be offering degrees in leadership and civic studies and will be the only program of its kind in Canada at the undergraduate level.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-27 |title=At McMaster University, Building a Better 2080 Starts Now {{!}} The Walrus |url=https://thewalrus.ca/building-a-better-2080/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=In photos: A celebration of a transformational $50M investment in Canada’s future leaders |url=https://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/wilson-college-celebration/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |last=Swett |first=Pamela E. |title=Neighbors and enemies: the culture of radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-83461-2 |location=New York}}Reviews of Neighbors and enemies
- {{Cite journal |last=Fischer |first=Conan |date=2005 |title=Review of Neighbors and Enemies. The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1919-1933 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20141171 |journal=Central European History |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=677–679 |issn=0008-9389}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Sweeney |first=Dennis |date=2005 |title=Review of Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23742705 |journal=German Politics & Society |volume=23 |issue=4 (77) |pages=119–127 |issn=1045-0300}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Achilles |first=Manuela |date=2006 |title=Review of Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929–1933 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23073541 |journal=Social History |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=497–499 |issn=0307-1022}}
- {{Cite book |title=Selling modernity: advertising in twentieth-century Germany |date=2007 |publisher=Duke Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-8223-9035-0 |editor-last=Swett |editor-first=Pamela E. |location=Durham, NC |editor-last2=Wiesen |editor-first2=S. Jonathan |editor-last3=Zatlin |editor-first3=Jonathan R.}}Reviews of Selling Modernity
- {{Cite journal |last=Silberstein-Loeb |first=Jonathan |date=2008 |title=Review of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23701339 |journal=Enterprise & Society |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=866–868 |issn=1467-2227}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Mennel |first=Barbara |date=2008 |title=Review of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23742828 |journal=German Politics & Society |volume=26 |issue=2 (87) |pages=104–109 |issn=1045-0300}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Reuveni |first=Gideon |date=2008 |title=Review of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20457383 |journal=Central European History |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=533–535 |issn=0008-9389}}
- {{Cite book |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230306905 |title=Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany |date=2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-32275-6 |editor-last=Swett |editor-first=Pamela E. |location=London |language=en |doi=10.1057/9780230306905 |editor-last2=Ross |editor-first2=Corey |editor-last3=d’Almeida |editor-first3=Fabrice}}
- {{Cite book |last=Swett |first=Pamela E. |title=Selling Under the Swastika: advertising and commercial culture in Nazi Germany |date=2014 |publisher=Stanford Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-8047-7355-3 |location=Stanford, Calif}}Reviews of Selling under the swastika
- {{Cite journal |last=Reagin |first=Nancy |date=2015 |title=Review of Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43965130 |journal=Central European History |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=130–132 |issn=0008-9389}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Hau |first=Michael |date=2015 |title=Review of Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/683591 |journal=The Journal of Modern History |volume=87 |issue=4 |pages=1011–1012 |doi=10.1086/683591 |issn=0022-2801}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Harsch |first=Donna |last2=Swett |first2=Pamela E. |date=2015 |title=Review of Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany, SwettPamela E. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26577446 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=120 |issue=3 |pages=1134–1135 |issn=0002-8762}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Berg |first=Anne |date=2016 |title=Review of Selling Under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24809037 |journal=German Studies Review |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=409–411 |issn=0149-7952}}
- Swett, Pamela E. (2022). Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany. New York: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-108-83354-7}}.{{Cite book |title=Reshaping capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany |date=2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-83354-7 |editor-last=Föllmer |editor-first=Moritz |series=Publications of the German Historical Institute |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY |editor-last2=Swett |editor-first2=Pamela E.}}
- Swett, P. E., & Wiesen, S. J. (2024). Nazi Germany: Society, Culture, and Politics. Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN 978-1-350112-629 . - {{Cite web |last=Swett |first=Pamela |date=2024-04-06 |title=Humanities are taking a backseat to STEM education and that is creating problems |url=https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/humanities-are-taking-a-backseat-to-stem-education-and-that-is-creating-problems/article_750d8fb4-f1cf-11ee-868a-6b3d984e95fc.html |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Toronto Star |language=en}}
Honors and awards
Her dissertation received Brown University's Joukowsky Family Dissertation Award for distinguished thesis in the Social Sciences in 1999.Brown University News Bureau, May 27, 1999,
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