Elana Passman teaches courses in modern European history. She is particularly interested in issues of cross-cultural conflict and exchange. Her current research asks how it became possible for the French and the Germans—well-known as “hereditary enemies”—to overcome their mutual hatred and become key partners at the heart of Europe. She is working on a manuscript entitled The Cultivation of Friendship: French and German Cultural Cooperation, 1925-1963.

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