Penn State Harrisburg Faculty Details
Vita
Dr. Hoffman came to Penn State Harrisburg in 1985 after teaching at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University. Here she created courses in history for students of the humanities and secondary education social studies. She’s since coordinated the graduate program in humanities and the interdisciplinary humanities undergraduate major. She also served externally as Chief Faculty Consultant for the Advanced Placement European History Program of the College Board. She has published essays on the history of psychoanalysis and its application to historical interpretation; on historiography; and on history and humanities pedagogy. Her current research is in Holocaust and genocide studies, most recently an essay on the fate and activities of Jewish women during and after the Holocaust.
Education
- Ph.D. in European History, Bryn Mawr College
- B.A., Michigan State University: major in history, minors in philosophy and German
Research Areas
20th century cultural and intellectual history, especially of Germany; Holocaust and genocide studies; history of psychoanalysis and psychology; history and humanities pedagogy.
Professional Affiliations
- American Historical Association
- Association for Integrative Studies
- Cheiron (International Society for History of Behavioral and Social Sciences)
- Forum for History of Human Science
- Baltimore-Washington Area German History Seminar
Course Offerings
- HUM 515 Historical Writing
- HUM 515 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Institute for Teachers
- HIST 143 History of Fascism and Nazism
- HIST 144 The World at War, 1939-1945
- HIST 173 Vietnam in War and Peace
- HIST 320 Contemporary World History and Issues
- I HUM 400 Creative Expressions in the Humanities: Border-Crossing
College News
Learning Center program earns recertification
Penn State Harrisburg’s Learning Center peer tutor training program has earned a five-year recertification from the College Reading and Learning Association. With this certification, Penn State Harrisburg remains one of only seven certified colleges in the capital region.
The certification provides recognition and positive reinforcement for the tutors’ successful work and sets a standard of skills and training for tutors.
Research to investigate victimization in Latino community
A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has been awarded a $680,000 federal grant to help eliminate a research gap profiling victimization in the Latino community.
Assistant Professor of Social Science Chiara Sabina received the two-year grant from the National Institute of Justice to focus on the national level of dating violence and victimization among Latino adolescents which she a terms “mush more understudied” group than others in that community.
‘Little Shop of Horrors’ comes to campus Nov. 12 to 15
Little Shop of Horrors, with its man-eating plant Audrey II and toe-tapping music, comes to Penn State Harrisburg’s Olmsted Auditorium for a four-day run November 12 through 15.
Presented by the college’s Capital Players with a cast and crew of 24 undergraduate and graduate students, Little Shop of Horrors takes to the stage at 8 p.m. November 12, 13, and 14 with a 2 p.m. matinee November 15.