About
Paige Newhouse is a historian of modern Germany with interests in race and migration. Her dissertation, “Revisiting the Right to Stay: Vietnamese Migrants in Postwar Germany, 1978-2000,” examines how the Cold War defined the terms of Vietnamese migration to Germany across the Iron Curtain. Once the Cold War ended, Germans had to rethink their frameworks for migration as Vietnamese workers pushed through traditional boundaries of categories for migrants. “Revisiting the Right to Stay” asks how does migration – a subject at the heart of the most contentious political disputes in Europe today – nuance narratives about the end of the Cold War and the decade that followed? This project has received generous support from the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Rackham Graduate School, and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (predoctoral grant). In addition, Newhouse has received multiple FLAS awards for Vietnamese.
Publications
“Between Directives and Depictions: Charting the Realities for Vietnamese Women in East Germany,” included in Lauren Stokes and Michelle Kahn (eds), Racism and Antiracism in a Divided Germany, submitted to Cornell University Press and under peer review
Digital Humanities Projects
Research Assistant, 1817 Project, Inclusive History Project at the University of Michigan
Season Producer, Reverb Effect at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Co-creator, Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
- An educational database for undergraduate and high school students at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Part of the HistoryLab at the University of Michigan
Selected Service
Current Graduate Student Liaison, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Migration/Immigration Network Representative for the Social Sciences History Association
Co-coordinator (2023-2024), European History Workshop
Co-coordinator (2019-2021), Migration & Displacement Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop
Courses
Hist 322: Origins of Nazism
Hist 312: History of European Integration
Hist 341: Nations and Nationalism
Hist 318: Europe: Era of War
