Andrew Demshuk
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Assistant Professor, Department of History, American University
Full Biography
Andrew Demshuk joined the American University history department in Fall 2016. He graduated from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) in 2010. Thanks to a DAAD fellowship, he published The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970 with Cambridge University Press in 2012. Through an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship in 2014/2015, he published Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968 with Oxford University Press in 2017. Currently under review, his third monograph compares urban planning in Frankfurt/Main, Leipzig, and Wrocław: three cities that had been part of Germany before World War II and were rebuilt under three competing Cold War regime ideologies.