Dr. Douglas T. McGetchin

Douglas T. McGetchin
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor, Director of Peace Studies
http://www.fau.edu/peacestudies
http://www.sewha.org

Areas of Expertise
World History
Modern Europe
Modern Germany
Indian History

Email: dmcgetch@fau.edu; https://twitter.com/DougMcGetchin Office Phone:(561) 799-8226

Professor McGetchin specializes in the history of the transnational intersection of Modern Europe and South Asia. He teaches classes in world history, modern Germany, modern Europe, and ancient and modern South Asia. His current project examines the interconnections between three struggles for social justice. Internationalist and anti-imperial politics in Great Britain and Germany, the Indian Independence movement, and the pan-African movement that included the Civil Rights struggle in the United States, though geographically separate, all had parallel experiments with similar challenges as well as shared a common network of anti-imperial, anti-racist activists.

His publications include Indology, Indomania, Orientalism: Ancient India's Rebirth in Modern Germany(Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009), examining the historical context of Indology (the study of South Asian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India within modern Europe, especially Germany, in the period 1790-1914.

Other publications include the edited volume, Douglas McGetchin, Peter K. J. Park, and Damodar SarDesai, eds ., Sanskrit and " Orientalism" : Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany ,1750-1958 (New Delhi: Manohar, 2004), as well as several articles including "Indo-German Connections, Critical and Hermeneutical, in the First World War," The Comparatist 34 (2010):95-126, " Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Société Asiatique, 1822-1860, " Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2004) : 565-580, and " The Whitney Müller Conflict and Indo-German Connections" in Mapping Channels Between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross Cultural Relations, ed. Jörg Esleben, Christian Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, 29-50 (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Professor McGetchin has presented papers at academic conferences in North America, Europe, and India, including the German Studies Association , the World History Association, the University of California Multi Campus Research Group in World History, the international Conference of Asian Scholars ( Berlin), as well as special conferences organized at the South Asian Institute ( Heidelberg, Germany), the India International Centre ( New Delhi, India), the University of Toronto ( Canada), the University of California Los Angeles, and Harvard University. His grants include the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) Annual Grant for dissertation research, which he carried out in Leipzig and Berlin, Germany. He reviews books for scholarly journals including German studies Review, German Studies Quarterly and Francia.

Courses

Undergraduate Courses

History of Modern Germany
History of Modern India
Asia and the West (new course added to FAU catalogue)
Indian Civilization
Independence Movements in S. Asia
Hitler and Nazi Germany
The Holocaust
Twentieth-century Europe to WW2
Age of Nationalism and Reform
British Empire
World War II
History of Civilization 1
Introduction to Historical Study: Global Connections
Introduction to Historical Study: Weimar, Germany
Senior Seminar: The Road Back: Memory and the Great War
Senior Seminar: Struggle for Independence in Colonial South Asia
Hitler and Gandhi

Graduate Courses

Readings in World History
Seminars in European History: Europe in a Global Context: Orientalism and Imperialism
Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)