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MARLINE OTTE
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Toronto, 1999

Marline Otte is Sizeler Professor and specializes in modern European history focusing on Germany and cultural history. She is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890­-1933    
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

At the turn of the twentieth century, German popular entertainment was a realm of unprecedented opportunity for Jewish performers. This study explores the terms of their engagement and pays homage to the many ways in which German Jews were instrumental in the birth of an incomparably rich world of popular culture.

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PROJECTS
The Sunken City: Rebuilding Post-Katrina New Orleans    
The Sunken City: Rebuilding Post-Katrina New Orleans (2008),
74 min., is a documentary film co-directed, co-edited, and co-produced with Laszlo Fulop (University of New Orleans)
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CONTACT INFORMATION

Office:Hebert 215F
Hours:TH 4:15- 5:15
Phone:(504) 862-8621
Email:motte@tulane.edu

WHAT'S NEW

"The practice of kindness in early modern elite society"  
Past and Present, 2011, number 211, pp. 121-58.


Ruth Landes Memorial Fellowship, 2010  
Awarded to write a book on emotions and values in early modern England.


"The moral economy of thanking: the culture of gratitude in early modern England"  
Part of the panel on "The moral economy of emotions", to be presented at the American Historical Association, Boston, January, 2011.

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