Shelly Cline


Shelly Cline
  • Lecturer

Contact Info

Wescoe, 4017D
Lawrence
1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045

Biography

Fields of Study Modern European History, Women and Gender History, and British History 

Dissertation “Women at Work: The SS Aufseherinnen and the Gendered Perpetration of the Holocaust” 

Languages German 

Current Position Historian and Director of Education, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, KS 

 

Education

Ph.D. in History, The University of Kansas, 2014, Lawrence, KS
Honors

Specialization

Courses Developed

University of Kansas

WGSS 396 Gendering the Holocaust 

HWC 300 Antisemitism and the West: More Than Auschwitz

Kansas City Art Institute

HIST 3500 Gender and the Holocaust  

SOC 3702 Gender Literacy 

HIST 3550 Women and War

Courses Taught

University of Kansas

JWSH341/HIST 341 Hitler and Nazi Germany 

WGSS 396 Gendering the Holocaust 

HWC 205 Western Civilization II 

HWC 300 Antisemitism and the West: More Than Auschwitz  

EURS 302- European Culture and Society 1945 - Present (study abroad)                                                                                                              

HWC 204 Western Civilization I 

Kansas City Art Institute

WESTH 1001 Western Thought I 

WESTH 1002 Western Thought II 

HIST 3500 Gender and the Holocaust

SOC 3702 Gender Literacy

HIST 3500 Women and War 

University of Missouri - Kansas City  

ANCH 214 Nazi Occupied Europe 

Research

Dissertation Research- 2009-2010 

Nuengamme Archive, Hamburg, Germany 

Bergen-Belsen Archive, Lohheide, Germany 

Ravensbrück Archive, Fürstenberg, Germany 

Auschwitz Archive, Oswiecim, Poland  

Teaching

Lecturer

Teaching interests:

  • Lecturer

Awards & Honors

Recipient, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Office of Graduate Studies, KU, 2011

Nominee, Graduate School GTA teaching award, KU, 2009

Recipient, Exemplary Teaching Award, Office of Graduate Studies, KU, 2008

Recipient, Dean’s Graduate Instructorship Humanities and Western Civilization, KU, 2008

Recipient, Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing in Western Civilization, KU, 2008

Nominee, Graduate School GTA teaching award, KU, 2007

Recipient, Graduate Direct Exchange with Universität Hamburg, 2009-2010

Alternate Candidate, German-American Fulbright Grant, 2009-2010

Recipient, Rebecca Robinson Memorial Travel Grant, KU, 2009 

Societies

Service

DEPARTMENTAL 

President, Graduate Organization of Humanities and Western Civilization, KU, 2011-2012  

Member, Humanities and Western Civilization Program Committee, 2005-2008, KU, 2010-2012     

Member, Western Civilization Large Lecture Working Group, KU, 2011-2012 

Member, Humanities and Western Civilization Graduate Teaching and Instructional Resources Committee, KU 2011-2012 

Member, Humanities and Western Civilization Graduate Teaching Executive Committee, KU, 2011-2012 

President, History Graduate Student Organization, KU, 2008-2009 

Chair, Steering Committee Second KU-MU Graduate History Conference, KU, 2008-2009  

Member, Modern Europe Standing Field Committee History Department, KU, 2008-2009 

Member, Special Needs and Staff Benefits History Department, KU, 2007-2008  

Member, Graduate Board History Department, KU,  2006-2007 

Member, Humanities and Western Civilization Jack and Shirley Howard Professor Search Committee, KU,  2005-2006    

Member, Humanities and Western Civilization Curriculum and Advising Committee, KU, 2005-2006 

UNIVERSITY-WIDE 

Representative, Humanities and Western Civilization Representative to the Committee on Graduate Studies, KU  2008- 2009 

Member, College Academic Council, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU, 2008-2009 

Member, Dean’s Student Advisory Council for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU, 2007-2009  

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT  

Member, Steering Committee, Holocaust EDU Conference, Holocaust Academic Roundtable, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, KS, 2011, 2014 

Member, Women in Academia, Department of History, KU, 2008-2009 

Member,Holocaust Academic Roundtable, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, KS, 2005-present 

PRESENTATIONS

CONFERENCES  

Seminar Presentation “Auschwitz: Sold Out Today,” German Studies Association Conference, Virtual, 2021

Seminar Presentation “Holocaust Tourism in Ravensbrück,” German Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR, 2019

Paper Presentation “Women in the Holocaust,” Through Many Eyes: Conference on the Holocaust, Casper College, Casper, WY, 2018

Paper Presentation “Traitor Sisters: The Prosecution of Women Who Perpetrate Violence,” The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hofstra University, 2017

Paper Presentation “Women at Work,” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, 2016

Paper Presentation “Gendered Justice: The SS Aufseherinnen and the Belsen Trial,” Encountering Perpetrators, University of Winchester, UK, 2015

Presentation “Developing Partnerships with Universities,” Association of Holocaust Organizations, Las Vegas, NV, 2015

Paper Presentation “Working Girl: Sex Discrimination in Auschwitz,” Thinking Gender, University of California Los Angeles, 2012

Presentation “The Holocaust Resources: Gendering the Holocaust,” Holocaust EDU, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, KS, 2011 

PUBLIC AND GUEST LECTURES

Guest Lecture “The Path and Process of Genocide,” KU Beijing Foreign Studies University English Institute, University of Kansas, July 2017

Presentation “Bergen-Belsen: Then and Now,” Take Five: Memory, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 2017

Presentation “The Holocaust Overview,” Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kansas City, MO, May 2016 

Public Lecture “November 9th in German History: History and Memorialization,” Kristallnacht Memorial Service, Overland Park, KS, November 2016 

Presentation  “Women at Work: Understanding Perpetration,” Delta Kappa Gamma International Society of Women Educators, Scandia, KS, April 2015

Presentation “’Working Girl:’ SS Aufseherinnen and Postwar Representations,” PEO, Overland Park, KS, March 2015 

Guest Lecture “Genocide and the Second World War” and “The Holocaust: Path and Process,” The History of Genocide, University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth, KS, 2013

Presentation “Representations of Gender in the Holocaust” Holocaust Academic Roundtable Seminar Series, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, KS, 2012 

Presentation “A League of their Own: Women in Ravensbrück” Isak Federman Holocaust Teaching Cadre, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, KS, 2011

Presentation “Ordinary Women” Isak Federman Holocaust Teaching Cadre, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, KS, 2009

Dean’s Graduate Instructorship Lecture “Ordinary Women, Ordinary Evil,” Humanities and Western Civilization, University of Kansas, 2008  

GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

“From Shelley to Klein: Tips and Tricks of HWC 205”- Humanities and Western Civilization Weekly GTA Training, KU, 2012 

“Teaching Your Own Class”- Humanities and Western Civilization GTA Fall Orientation, KU, 2010

“Strategies for Success: Leading Discussions”- Humanities and Western Civilization New GTA Training, KU, 2009,2008, 2007

“Getting a Good Start”- University of Kansas New GTA Orientation, 2007 

 

Memberships

Member, Phi Beta Delta (Alpha Pi Chapter) Honor Society for International Scholars, 2007

Member, Phi Alpha Theta (Alpha-Omicron Chapter) International History Honor Society, 2003