Professional Affiliation

Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Expert Bio

Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (OUP, 2011), and the author of the widely-acclaimed The Butchers Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (W.W. Norton, 2002), as well as other books.  He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled “Facing the Past in Small-Town Germany, 1945-2000” as well as an “Atlas of German Studies.”