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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">ANNOUNCEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1028" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="WCGS Book Prize Winner 2018" href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/research-activities-and-opportunities/wcgs-book-prize/winner-finalists-2018" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:39.1pt;width:109.85pt;height:112.95pt;z-index:251659264;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:line;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/research-activities-and-opportunities/wcgs-book-prize/winner-finalists-2018"><img border="0" width="146" height="151" style="width:1.5208in;height:1.5729in" src="cid:image001.png@01D5B0BE.C1F4FA30" align="left" hspace="12" alt="WCGS Book Prize Winner 2018" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"></a><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The
Waterloo Centre for German Studies is pleased to announce the winner of its 2018 Book Prize. <i><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/2018-book-prize-finalist-michael-e-osullivan" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/2018-book-prize-finalist-michael-e-osullivan">Disruptive
Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965</a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>written by Michael O'Sullivan and published by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://utorontopress.com/us/disruptive-power-1">University
of Toronto Press</a>, was selected from a <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/research-activities-and-opportunities/wcgs-book-prize/winner-finalists-2018">
shortlist of eight excellent academic works</a> on German studies published in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The book tells the story of Therese Neumann, a Bavarian mystic who developed a cult following that lasted through the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the early years of the Federal Republic.
By examining the revival of belief in Catholic miracles and its role in influencing many thinkers, politicians, and other actors, O'Sullivan is able to paint a nuanced and many-sided portrait of the local, religious, social and political history of twentieth-century
Germany.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Jury members were impressed by O'Sullivan's ambitious analysis and attention to a variety of issues that in concert offer a
</span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Michael OSullivan" style='position:absolute;margin-left:31.25pt;margin-top:244.7pt;width:82.45pt;height:71.1pt;z-index:251660288;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:margin;mso-height-relative:margin'>
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look at the complexity of German regional and religious identities. As one juror commented, "this is an important book - it makes a person think again about the larger narratives that have so long shaped the story of German culture and history." For another
juror, the book's ability to "be seen as women’s history, or as a history of political and identity struggles of rural Germany in times of upheaval" makes it a valuable contribution to German studies. A "fascinating and engrossing read," <i>Disruptive Power</i> asks
important questions about the relationship between religion and mainstream culture.</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Michael O'Sullivan teaches a broad range of courses on European history at Marist College in New York. He earned his BA from Canisius College, and his MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_4" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Disruptive Power" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:378.85pt;width:50.7pt;height:77.1pt;z-index:251661312;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:margin;mso-height-relative:margin'>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="68" height="103" style="width:.7083in;height:1.0729in" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D5B0BE.C1F4FA30" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Disruptive Power" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The
WCGS Book Prize was established to raise awareness, within academia and the broader public, of the engaging and dynamic knowledge being produced by newer German Studies scholars. An international jury chaired by James M. Skidmore, Director of the Waterloo
Centre of German Studies, made the selection. Other members of the jury were Ann Marie Rasmussen (University of Waterloo), Carrie Smith (University of Alberta), Karina Urbach (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton), and Joachim Whaley (University of Cambridge).
In addition to O'Sullivan's book, <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/research-activities-and-opportunities/wcgs-book-prize/winner-finalists-2018">
seven other studies were named to the WCGS Book Prize shortlist</a>, a testament to the quality of scholarship in German studies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Nominations for next year's prize, for first books published in 2019, will open in early 2020. Visit the
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/research-activities-and-opportunities/wcgs-book-prize">
WCGS Book Prize page</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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