Dr. Kollander specializes in modern German political and diplomatic history. Her publications include Frederick III: Germany's Liberal Emperor (Greenwood Press, 1995), and “ I Must be a Part of this War”: A German-American's Fight against Hitler and Nazism (with John O'Sullivan, contributor; Fordham University Press, 2005), Co-editor (with Leslie Derfler) An Age of Conflict: Readings in Twentieth Century European History (Third Edition, Harcourt-Brace College Publishers, 2001) articles in German History, European Review of History, Yearbook of German-American Studies, The Historian, and several book chapters.

Dr. Kollander is currently researching the experiences of some thirty thousand native-born Germans who fought in the U.S. Army during World War II. She is also working on a revisionist biography of Empress Victoria of Germany (1841-1901).

Her teaching interests include modern Germany, modern Russia, the Cold War, and the history of European women. She was a finalist for the University  Undergraduate Teaching award in 1999, a finalist for the University Researcher of the Year Award (Associate Professor rank) in 2002, and received the University Undergraduate Teaching award in 2006.

Links of Interest:

• Short bio of Emperor Frederick III
• History of Military Intelligence
• The Ritchie Boys

Courses

Undergraduate Courses

• History of Civilization from Ancient Times to 1600
• History of Civilization from 1600 to the Present 
• Introduction to Historical Study
• Modern Germany: 1870 to the present
• Women in European History
• Hitler and Nazi Germany
• Russia and the Soviet Union
• Rise and Fall of the Cold War
• Undergraduate Directed Independent Study
• History of Modern Russia

Graduate Courses

• Graduate Directed Independent Study
• Teaching Practicum for Graduate Students
• Graduate Readings Seminar – Politics and Crises in Modern Germany and Russia
• Research Seminar ---From the Second to the Third Reich
• Graduate Seminar --Hitler and Nazi Germany
• Graduate Readings Seminar--The Problem of Resistance in Nazi Germany
• Graduate Readings Seminar: Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives? (Spring 2005)
• Graduate Readings in Nazi Germany

Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)