Kristin Poling, Ph.D.
Teaching Areas:
HistoryResearch Areas:
Europe / European History, Social and Cultural Factors, Urban HistoryBiography and Education
Dr. Poling is an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dr. Poling teaches classes on German and world history and historical research methods. She also teaches in the Honors program, and serves as a faculty advisor for the history student group, Phi Alpha Theta.
Education
Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 2011
M.A., History, Harvard University, 2005
B.A., History and German, Washington University in St. Louis, 2003
Teaching and Research
Courses Taught
Research
Dr. Poling's research areas include the urban and environmental histories of Germany and the United States.
Selected Publications
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
鈥淎 Walhalla in the Wasteland: Carl Ernest Schmidt and the Quest of One German-American Businessman to Save Michigan鈥檚 Forests,鈥 Michigan Historical Review 46, no. 2 (Fall 2020): 1-30.
鈥淏erlin, Frontier City: The Lenn茅 Triangle Incident and West Berlin鈥檚 Frontier Zone in the 1980s,鈥 in The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity, 31-44. Edited by Andreas Luescher and Carolyn Loeb. Ashgate, 2015.
鈥淪hantytowns and Pioneers Beyond the City Wall: Berlin鈥檚 Urban Frontier in the Nineteenth Century,鈥 Central European History 47 (2014): 245-274.