Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center . She earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania , and a BA in German from Temple University . A historian of 20th century Germany , she teaches across the range of modern European history, including courses on art and politics in Weimar Germany (including cinema), fascism and the Third Reich, Europe since 1945, and the history of women in modern Europe . She has written about political propaganda, gender, and advertising during the Weimar Republic (1918-33). Her current project is a social history of rock and roll in Hamburg , Germany during the 1950s and 1960s.