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About Jenna Pittman
Jenna Pittman (she/her/hers) is a PhD Student in the Department of History at Duke University. Jenna's broad scholarly interests include: modern European history, political economy, socialist economics, and gender. Jenna’s current research focuses on East German agriculture and chemical production and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) planned economy from 1952-1989.
Jenna Pittman is a PhD Student in the Department of History at Duke University. She can be reached at jenna.pittman@duke.edu.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jenna:
October 29, 2025
Remembering National Socialism in Austrian Post-war Film (1945-1955)
Entrenched in the myth of being victim of the Nazi aggression, Austrian elites pursued a politics of memory that symbolically shook off any responsibi…
October 29, 2025
Jews in the Soviet Union: A History
Chronicles the encounter of one of the largest Jewish communities in the world with war, revolution, and Soviet power from 1917 through 1930 At the b…
October 9, 2025
Driving Productivity
Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany (Brill, 2025) reconstructs the industrial histori…
October 9, 2025
Seeds of Exchange
Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935 (Northern Illinois UP, 2025) examines the US and Soviet exchange of a…
October 8, 2025
Orthodoxy on the Line
Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era (NYU Press, 2025) is an Immigration and labor history of…
October 7, 2025
Cracked Foundations
How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities In the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous …
September 30, 2025
The New Yugoslav Woman
From 1945 to 1989, the Yugoslav state connected its claims of progressive politics and gender equality to its support of free healthcare, sex educatio…
September 12, 2025
Fluid Russia
Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era (Cornell UP, 2021) offers a new framework for understanding Russian national …
September 12, 2025
No Better Friend?
The German-American relationship is the decisive transatlantic dynamic of our time. Long seen as one of the most stable connections between Europe and…
September 11, 2025
Reinventing Protestant Germany
Germany’s Protestant churches, longtime strongholds of nationalism and militarism, largely backed the Nazi dictatorship that took power in 1933. For m…
September 10, 2025
The Laissez-Faire Peasant
What if rural progress isn’t about government intervention but about the self-reliance and ingenuity of peasants themselves? The Laissez-Faire Pe…
September 9, 2025
Matisse at War
In 1940, with the Nazis sweeping through France, Henri Matisse found himself at a personal and artistic crossroads. His 42-year marriage had ended, he…
August 27, 2025
The Geriatric Peace
The vast majority of the world's countries are experiencing a demographic revolution: dramatic, sustained, and likely irreversible population aging. S…
August 26, 2025
Urban Planning in Nazi Germany
Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph, Terror in the European Context, 1933–1945 (DOM, 2025) is edited by Uwe Altrock, Harald Bodenschatz, V…
August 13, 2025
The German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic has come to stand as a symbol of communist tyranny, a source of Cold War nostalgia and socialist kitsch, and a failed a…
July 30, 2025
Geographies of Renewal
The term “Heimat,” referring to a local sense of home and belonging, has been the subject of much scholarly and popular debate following the fall of t…
July 28, 2025
Wildcat of the Streets
The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise o…
July 23, 2025
Women Under Suspicion
Officially, women in the Soviet Union enjoyed a degree of equality unknown elsewhere in Allied countries at the time. However, long-standing norms of …
July 21, 2025
Socialist Subjectivities
Socialist Subjectivities: Queering East Germany under Honecker (University of Michigan Press, 2025) works within the logics of queer time to reanimate…
July 6, 2025
Meditation in the College Classroom
This book provides background, strategies, and tips for higher education faculty and instructors interested in incorporating meditation in their class…
July 5, 2025
Peace Is a Shy Thing
The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawi…
June 28, 2025
The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe
The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe (Taylor & Francis, 2025), spans 1914–1939 to provide a concise interpretation of the role …
June 11, 2025
Foreign in Two Homelands
What happens when migrants are rejected by the host society that first invited them? How do they return to a homeland that considers them outsiders? F…
June 10, 2025
Roots of Counterterrorism
It seems beyond doubt, since 9/11, that the main responsibility of intelligence and security services is to prevent ticking bombs from going off. The …