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About Deep Acharya
I am a PhD student in History and the George L. Mosse Fellow in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on the history of fatherhood in twentieth-century Germany. My M.A. thesis, “Cradles and Graves: Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Nazi Morality in Das Schwarze Korps (1939–1942),” at Miami University, investigated the Nazi Schutzstaffel’s (SS) official weekly publication, Das Schwarze Korps. The thesis argued how the SS harmonized seemingly antithetical ideals of paternal tenderness and hegemonic masculinist hardness, fashioning obedience, fatherhood, and ethical comportment into core tenets of fascist masculinity. My current research expands upon this foundation, tracing the evolution of fatherhood as a heuristic device to understand broader socio-ideological transfigurations in twentieth-century Germany. At a time when authoritarianism resurges with paternalistic overtones, through my research I attempt to reconceptualize fascism beyond the architectures of a simplistic political or ideological formation, rather, as an affective dogma structured by gendered and didactic languages of control. I interrogate how the production of manufactured idealized masculinities enabled the normalization of violence and how paternal metaphors and ethical discourses were mobilized to legitimize authoritarian authority. More broadly, my work seeks to historicize the ethical dimensions of fascist subject-formation. Drawing from materialist traditions, I remain attentive to how authoritarian ideologies are materially sustained and symbolically reproduced across visual and discursive registers. My intellectual training spans the disciplines of history, philosophy, and political theory. I hold degrees from the University of Delhi (BA, History) and Miami University (MA, History), where I have also pursued coursework in philosophy, visual studies, and critical theory.NBN Episodes hosted by Deep:
April 18, 2026
I Will Not Abandon You
I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (Aevo UTP, 2026) brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany. In hi…
March 5, 2026
The Einstein of Sex
More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the "Einstein of Sex," grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativit…
March 3, 2026
Reparations and the Human
The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new in…
March 1, 2026
Articulating Difference
Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers th…
January 25, 2026
This Horrible Uncertainty
Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948 (Berghahn Book…
January 1, 2026
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism (2024) is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that…