Rita Chin

Louise Tilly Collegiate Professor of European History

rchin@umich.edu

Office Information:

1666 Haven Hall
hours: On leave 2025-26

Education/Degree:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999

“Reflections of an American Studying Race in the Federal Republic of Germany” in Michelle Lynn Kahn and Lauren Stokes, eds., Racism and Anti-Racism in Divided Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2026).
“Multikulturalismus,” Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe, online encyclopedia, www.migrationsbegriffe.de (2025).
“Germany as a Global Nation?” in Lynette Roth, ed., Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024).
“The Rushdie Affair, the Threat of a Globalized Islam, and the Retreat from Multiculturalism” in Kirrily Freeman and John Munro, eds., Reading the New Global Order: Textual Transformations of 1989 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
“How to Understand the Historikerstreit 2.0: German Memory Culture and Contemporary Race Relations,” Passato e Presente 118.4 (2022): 31-7.
“Illiberalism and the Multicultural Backlash” in Renata Uitz, ed., Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism (London: Routledge, 2021), 280-98.
“Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany: Some Epistemological Obstacles around ‘Race’” in Cornelia Wilhelm, ed., Migration, Memory and Diversity in Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 206-229.

The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History. Princeton, 2017
After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe, with Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann. Ann Arbor, 2009
The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany. Cambridge, 2007

“Reflections of an American Studying Race in the Federal Republic of Germany” in Michelle Lynn Kahn and Lauren Stokes, eds., Racism and Anti-Racism in Divided Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2026).
“Multikulturalismus,” Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe, online encyclopedia, www.migrationsbegriffe.de (2025).
“Germany as a Global Nation?” in Lynette Roth, ed., Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024).
“The Rushdie Affair, the Threat of a Globalized Islam, and the Retreat from Multiculturalism” in Kirrily Freeman and John Munro, eds., Reading the New Global Order: Textual Transformations of 1989 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).
“How to Understand the Historikerstreit 2.0: German Memory Culture and Contemporary Race Relations,” Passato e Presente 118.4 (2022): 31-7.
“Illiberalism and the Multicultural Backlash” in Renata Uitz, ed., Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism (London: Routledge, 2021), 280-98.
“Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany: Some Epistemological Obstacles around ‘Race’” in Cornelia Wilhelm, ed., Migration, Memory and Diversity in Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 206-229.

The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History. Princeton, 2017
After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe, with Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann. Ann Arbor, 2009
The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany. Cambridge, 2007

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