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Jessica Reinisch

Senior Lecturer

Department of History, Classics and Archaeology

Biography

Bibliography

Monograph

The Perils of Peace: The Crisis of Public Health in Occupied Germany (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Edited Volumes

Editor (with Elizabeth White), The Disentanglement of Populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe, 1944-1949 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). ISBN 978-0-230-22204-5

Editor (with David Cesarani, Suzanne Bardgett and Dieter Steinert), Justice, Politics and Memory in Europe after the Second World War: Landscapes after Battle Volume 2 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2011). ISBN 978-0-85303-942-6

Editor (with Mark Mazower and David Feldman) of Post-War Reconstruction in Europe: international perspectives, 1945-1949, Past and Present Supplement 2011 (Oxford University Press, 2011). ISBN 978-0-19-969274-3

Editor (with David Cesarani, Suzanne Bardgett and Dieter Steinert) Survivors of Nazi persecution in Europe after the Second World War: Landscapes after Battle Volume 1 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2010). ISBN 978-0-85303-902-0

Guest editor, Journal of Contemporary History, Special Issue: Relief Work in the Aftermath of War, Volume 43, Number 3, July 2008. ISSN 0022-0094

Articles and Chapters

"'Auntie UNRRA' at the Crossroads", in: Matthew Hilton and Rana Mitter (eds), Transnationalism and Contemporary Global History, Past and Present Supplement No.8, 2013, Vol.218, 70-97

"Internationalism in relief: the birth (and death) of UNRRA", in: Mark Mazower, Jessica Reinisch and David Feldman (eds.), Post-War Reconstruction in Europe: International Perspectives, 1945-1949, Past and Present Supplement No. 6, 2011, Vol.210, 258-289

"Survivors and the politics of relief", in: David Cesarani, Suzanne Bardgett, Jessica Reinisch and Dieter Steinert (eds.), Justice, Politics and Memory in Europe after the Second World War: Landscapes after Battle Vol.2  (Vallentine Mitchell, 2011), 1-18

"Refugees and labour in the Soviet zone of Germany", in: Jessica Reinisch and Elizabeth White (eds.), The Disentanglement of Populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe, 1944-1949 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 185-209

"Relief in the aftermath of war", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.43, No.3, July 2008, 371-404

"'We shall rebuild anew a powerful nation': UNRRA, internationalism and national reconstruction in Poland", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.43, No.3, July 2008, 451-476

"'La nazione hanno bisogno di cittadini sani e coraggiosi': le displaced persons, l'Unrra e la sanità pubblica", in: Guido Crainz, Raoul Pupo and Silvia Salvatici (eds.), Naufraghi della pace: Il 1945, i profughi e le memorie divise d'Europa (Donzelli, 2008)

"Displaced Persons and Public Health in Germany after 1945", in: J.D.Steinert & Inge Weber-Newth (eds.), Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution, (Secolo Verlag, 2008), 43-53

"A new beginning? German medical and political traditions in the aftermath of the Second World War", Minerva: a Journal of Science and Learning, Vol.45, No.3, September 2007, 241-257. ISSN 0026-4695.

"'Zurück zu unserem Virchow!' – Medizinische Karrieren, Nationalhelden und Geschichtsschreibung in Deutschland nach 1945", in: Rolf Winau and Johanna Bleker (eds.), Gesundheit und Staat: Studien zur Geschichte der Gesundheitsämter in Deutschland, 1870-1950 (Matthiesen Verlag, 2007), 255-271. ISBN 978-3-7868-4104-3

"'Man kommt zwangsläufig in die Rolle des Pg.-Schützers...': Entnazifizierung und Gesundheitspolitik in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone", in: Peter Barker, Marc-Dietrich Ohse and Dennis Tate (eds.), Views from Abroad: die DDR aus britischer Perspektive, (W.Bertelsmann Verlag, 2007), 79-91. ISBN 978-3-7639-3569-7

Encyclopaedias and Document Collections

"Preparing for a new world order: U.N.R.R.A. and the international management of refugees", in: Dan Stone (ed.), Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950, Thomson Learning EMEA research collection (Reading, 2007) www.galeuk.com/postwareurope

"The Marshall Plan", entry in: John Merriman and Jay Winter (eds.), Europe since 1914: Encyclopaedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction (Gale, 2006)

Reviews

"The Old Menu", Times Literary Supplement, August 24/31 2007, No.5447/8, 9 – review of Giles MacDonogh, 'After the Reich'

"Comparing Europe's Post-war Reconstructions: conference report", History Workshop Journal (Vol.61, No.1, Spring 2006), 299-304