Pamela E. Swett

Pamela E. Swett is a professor in the History department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and has been the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University since 2019.^[1]

Education and career

Swett has a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College. She completed her Ph.D. at Brown University in 1999.^[2] She moved to McMaster University in 1999, and was promoted to full professor by 2015.^[3] In 2019 she became the dean of humanities at McMaster.^[4]

Work

Swett's research is focused on the cultural history of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). She is the author of several books and articles on the Third Reich and is a coauthor of Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany (2011) with Fabrice d'Almeida and Corey Ross and Selling modernity: advertising in twentieth-century Germany with Jonathan Wiesen and Jonathan Zatlin.

Selected publications

• Swett, Pamela E. (2004). Neighbors and enemies: the culture of radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83461-2.^[5]

• Swett, Pamela E.; Wiesen, S. Jonathan; Zatlin, Jonathan R., eds. (2007). Selling modernity: advertising in twentieth-century Germany. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-9035-0.^[6]
• Swett, Pamela E.; Ross, Corey; d’Almeida, Fabrice, eds. (2011). Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9780230306905. ISBN 978-1-349-32275-6.

• Swett, Pamela E. (2014). Selling under the swastika: advertising and commercial culture in Nazi Germany. Stanford, Calif: Stanford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-7355-3.^[7]

• Swett, Pamela (2024-04-06). "Humanities are taking a backseat to STEM education and that is creating problems". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2024-04-17.

Honors and awards

Her dissertation received Brown University's Joukowsky Family Dissertation Award for distinguished thesis in the Social Sciences in 1999.^{[citation needed]}

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