Rate My Professor Barbara Hales

Hales began her tenure at the University of Houston-Clear Lake as Assistant Professor of History in 2005, advancing to Associate Professor in 2011 and Professor in 2022. She was awarded the University of Houston-Clear Lake 2005 International Education Award for outstanding contributions to international initiatives. Presently, she is President of the Center for Medicine After the Holocaust Houston. Key publications include her monograph Black Magic Woman: Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany (Peter Lang, 2021), which examines occultism and gender in interwar culture. She edited Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema (Berghahn Books, 2020), featuring essays on Jewish representations in Weimar films. Other works comprise Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Eugenics and Film in Weimar Germany (Berghahn Books, 2023) and the article "Taming the Technological Shrew: Woman as Machine in Weimar Culture" (Neophilologus, 2009). Through these scholarly contributions, Hales has advanced the understanding of cinema's role in disseminating eugenics, gender ideologies, and cultural narratives in Weimar and Nazi Germany, impacting film studies, cultural history, and Holocaust-related research.