Annika Frieberg
Associate Professor and Graduate Adviser
Office: AL-576
Email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D. in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2008)
M.A in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2003)
B.A. in History and German, Denison University (1999)
Originally from Sweden, Annika Frieberg studied Modern and Central European History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She teaches courses in 19th and 20th century European and East European history. Her research and teaching interests center on war and genocide, gender, conflict resolution, media, national, and transnational questions in Central Europe. She has published several articles, including “Reconciliation Remembered. Early Activists and the Polish-German Relations” in Re-Mapping Polish-German Memory, which was published by Indiana University Press in 2011. She is also the co-editor of Reconciliing with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective published by Routledge in 2017. Dr. Frieberg is the author of Peace at All Costs: Transnational Networks and Media in post-war Polish-German Relations, published by Berghahn Books in 2019. She currently researches humanitarianism and human rights through Swedish grassroots support and humanitarian initiatives for Polish Solidarity families affected by martial law in the 1980s.
Books
Peace at All Costs: Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German
Reconciliation. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019).
Edited Volume
Annika Frieberg and Martin Chung. eds. Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective (London: Routledge, 2017).
Journal Articles
“Transnational Spaces in National Places: Early Activists in Polish-West German Relations,”
Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 38:2 (March 2010), 213-226.
Book Chapters
“Forget and Forgive? Central European Memory Cultures, Models of Reconciliation, Postwar Polish-German Reconciliation,” in Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective. eds. Annika Frieberg and Martin Chung. London: Routledge, 2017.
“Reconciliation Remembered: Early Activists and the Polish-German Relations,” in Re-Mapping Polish-German Memory. eds. Justyna Beinek and Piotr Kosicki. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
“Catholics in Ostpolitik? Networking and Non-State Diplomacy in the Bensberger Polen-Memorandum, 1966-1970,” in Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy. eds. Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
“Hansjakob Stehle and the Borderlands on the Polish Side of the Oder River and the Lusatian Neisse in 1956-1972,” in Erinnerungsorte, Mythen und Stereotypen in Europa, eds. Heidi Hein Kirchner and Jarosław Suchoples. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo ATUT, 2008.
“Geopolitics and ‘New Germans’: Stanisław Stomma’s National Myths and Mythical Realities, 1956-1968.” Politische Mythen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert in Mittel-und Osteuropa. eds. Hans Henning Hahn and Heidi Hein. Marburg: Herder-Institut Verlag, 2006.