Harold Marcuse is a professor of German and public history at UCSB. While studying abroad in Germany in college he became interested in how West Germany and other European countries memorialized the former Nazi concentration camps in their territory. After writing a master's thesis and mounting a traveling exhibition on the memorials commemorating events in the Nazi and World War II era, he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the post-1945 history of the former Dachau concentration camp, which he expanded into a book titled Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001. He has since published on monuments, memorials and museums devoted to events in the Nazi period of German history. At UCSB since 1992, he teaches graduate seminars on oral history, the history of museums, collective memory, and digital history. His faculty website contains links to his publications, syllabi, oral and public history projects, as well as pdfs of many seminal readings in memory studies.