alejandro baer - Department of Sociology - University of Minnesota

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by  Alejandro Baer

ALEJANDRO BAER
Curriculum Vitae (August 2012)

Department of Sociology University of Minnesota
Room 252 &1133 Social Sciences Building, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: [phone] // Email: [email protected]

R E S E A R C H A R E A S O F E X P E R T I S E

Social Memory Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sociology of Culture and
Religion, Sociology of Modern Judaism, Empirical Research on Antisemitism,
Qualitative Research Methodologies, Sociology of Media and Communication,
Visual Sociology.

A C A D E M I C T R A I N I N G
2013 (January) Completion of the Habilitation, University of Bayreuth,
Germany.

2003 Ph.D. Sociology. Complutense University, Madrid.
Dissertation title: “Video Testimony and the Shaping of
Holocaust Public Memory”.

1997/1998 Graduate Studies Program. Department of
Communication. University of California, San Diego.

1995 MA Social Anthropology. Complutense University, Madrid.

1994 BA Sociology. Complutense University, Madrid.
P R E V I O U S A C A D E M I C P O S I T I O N S
2011-2012 Professor of Sociology (Visiting Chair of Qualitative
Methods of Social Research) Institute of Sociology. Ludwig
Maximilians-Universtät-München.
2009-2011 Assistant Professor, Chair of Sociology of Culture and
Religion (Prof.Dr. Bernt Schnettler), University of Bayreuth,
Germany.
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2008- 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology,
Complutense University, Madrid.
2004–2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology IV
Complutense University, Madrid.
2003–2004 Post-Doc Fellow, Alcalá de Henares University, Institute of
Mediterranean Studies, Madrid.
1999–2003 Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Complutense
University, Madrid.
V I S I T I N G P O S I T I O N S
2007-2008 Visiting Professor, Institute of Sociology, Technical
University, Berlin.
2002 Visiting Researcher, Department of Culture and
Communication, New York University.
2001 Visiting Fellow, Fritz Bauer Institute - Study and
Documentation Center on the History and Memory of
the Holocaust, Frankfurt.
2000 Visiting Researcher, Department of Sociology, University
of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

P U B L I C A T I O N S
Books
BAER, Alejandro (2006), Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación [Holocaust:
Remembrance and Representation], Madrid: Losada.
BAER, Alejandro (2005), El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto
[Audiovisual Testimony. Image and memory of the Holocaust], Madrid: Centro
de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).
JEREZ, Ariel, SAMPEDRO, Víctor & BAER, Alejandro (2000): Medios de comunicación,
consumo Informativo y actitudes políticas en España [Media, News
Consumption and Political Attitudes in Spain], Madrid: Centro de
Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).
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Edited books and Journal special Issues
Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research Methods, Forum Qualitative
Research (FQS), vol. 12, nr. 3, Sept. 2011. Miguel Valles, Louise Corti, Maria
Tamboukou and Alejandro Baer (eds.).
Antropología y Derechos Humanos [Anthropology and Human Rights], Special Issue
Revista de Antropología Social, nr. 18. 2010. Marie José Devillard and Alejando
BAER, Alejandro (eds.).
Visual Sociology, Forum Qualitative Research (FQS), vol. 9, nr. 3, Sept. 2008. Hubert
Knoblauch, Bernt Schnettler, Alejandro Baer, Sabine Petschke und Eric Laurier
(eds.).
España y el Holocausto. Historia y testimonios [Spain and The Holocaust. History and
Testimonies], Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones. 2007. Jacobo Israel and Alejandro
Baer (eds.).
El estigma imborrable. Reflexiones sobre el nuevo antisemitismo [The Indelible Stigma:
Reflections on the New Antisemitism], Madrid: Hebraica Ediciones. 2005.
Jacobo Israel, Alejandro Baer et.al. (eds.)
Articles in Journals
BAER, Alejandro, LOPEZ, Paula (2012) The Blind Spots of Secularization. A Qualitative
Approach to the Study of Antisemitism in Spain, in: Fine, Robert and Achinger,
Christine (eds.) European Societies, Special Issue on Racism and Antisemitism,
vol. 14, nr. 2, 1-19.
BAER, Alejandro (2011), The Voids of Sepharad. The Memory of the Holocaust in
Spain, in: Tabea Linhard, Daniela Flesler and Adrian Pérez Melgosa (eds.)
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 12, nr.1, 95-120.
BAER, Alejandro (2011) Zwischen Europäisierung und Verdrängung. Erinnerung an
den Holocaust in Spanien [Between Europaization and Repression: Memory of
the Holocaust in Spain]. Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und
Kultur, vol 5, nr. 2, 97-111.
BAER, Alejandro (2011) „Oma Clemens Reise nach Argentinien“. Ein Reisebericht
über Spanien als Fluchtweg und Falle (Einleitung). [Oma Clemens Journey to
Argentina. An Account on Spain as Escape Route and Trap (Introduction)].
Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, vol. 5, nr. 2, 112-121.
DEVILLARD, M.J. & BAER , Alejandro (2010), Antropología y Derechos Humanos: multi-
culturalismo, retos y resignificaciones [Anthropology and Human Rigths:
Multiculturalism, Challenges and Resignifications], in: M.J Devillard and A. Baer
(eds.), Revista de Antropología Social nr. 8, 25-51.
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BAER, Alejandro (2009), Spain´s Jewish Problem. From the Judeo-Bolchevik
Conspiracy to the Nazi-Zionist State, in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
(Zentrum für Antisemismus Forschung- TU Berlin) nr. 18, 89-110.
FERRANDIZ, Francisco & BAER, Alejandro (2008), Digital Memory: The Visual Recording
of Mass Grave Exhumations in Contemporary Spain, in: Forum Qualitative Social
Research 9(3) http://www.qualitative-
research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1152 .
BAER, Alejandro (2007), Tanques contra piedras. La imagen de Israel en España
[Tanks Against Stones: Israels Image in Spain], in: Documentos de Trabajo (DT),
Real Instituto Elcano http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/ARI2007/ARI74-
2007_Imagen_Israel_Espa%F1a.pdf .
VALLES, Miguel & BAER, Alejandro (2005), Qualitative Social Research in Spain: Past,
Present and Future. A portrait, in: Forum Qualitative Social Research 6 (3)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/viewArticle/15/31.
BAER, Alejandro & SÁNCHEZ PEREZ, Francisco (2004), La metodología biográfica
audiovisual. El proyecto Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation [The
Visual Biographic Methodology. On the Project Survivor of the Shoah Visual
History Foundation], in: Empiria nr. 7, 35–55.
BAER, Alejandro (2004), De memoria judía a memoria universal. El Holocausto y la
globalización del recuerdo [From Jewish to Universal Memory. The Holocaust
and the Globalization of Remembrance], in: Anthropos nr. 203, 76– 94.
BAER, Alejandro & ZUKIERMAN, Federico (2004), Nuevo antisemitismo, viejos estigmas:
caricaturas y viñetas de la prensa española sobre el conflicto israelí-palestino
(2000-2003) [New Antisemitism, Old Stigma: Caricatures and Cartoons on the
Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Spanish Press], in: Raíces 58, 25–38.
SAMPEDRO, Víctor & BAER, Alejandro (2003), El recuerdo como olvido y el pasado
extranjero: padres e hijos ante la memoria histórica mediatizada [Memory as
Oblivion and the Foreign Past: Parents, Children and Mediatized Memory], in:
Revista de Estudios de Juventud (INJUVE), Special Issue “25 años de
Constitución”, 93–108.
BAER, Alejandro & SADABA, Igor (2003), Tecnologías de la memoria: el recuerdo
colectivo en la sociedad de la información [Technologies of Memory: Collective
Remembering in the Information Society], in: Cuadernos de Realidades Sociales
61-62, 163–184.
BAER, Alejandro (2002), La representación del Holocausto y sus límites [The
Representation of the Holocaust and its Limits], in: Raíces , 50-51, 15–19.
BAER, Alejandro (2001), Consuming History and Memory through Mass Media
Products, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 4, nr. 4, 490– 501.
BAER, Alejandro (1999), Postsionismo vs. nacionalismo mesiánico. Religion y política
en el Israel de los 90 [Post-Zionism vs. Messianic Nationalism: Religion and Politics
in Israel in the nineties], in: Viento Sur, nr. 45, 21–27.
BAER, Alejandro (1999) Imagen, memoria e industria cultural [Image, Memory and
Cultural Industry], in: Arte, Individuo y Sociedad , nr. 11, 113–121.
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BAER, Alejandro (1997), Oriente Medio, mito y realidad [The Middle East: Myth and
Reality], in: El Viejo Topo, nr. ,34–38.
Book Chapters
BAER, Alejandro (2013, forthcoming): Between Old and New Antisemitism. The Image
of Jews in Present-day Spain, in: Rosenfeld, Alvin (ed.), Resurgent Antisemitism:
Global Perspectives, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
SCHNETTLER, Bernt, KNOBLAUCH, Hubert and BAER, Alejandro (2012): Videoanálisis
interpretativo de situaciones sociales: etnografía, análsis secuencial y
hermenéutica, in: Arroyo, Millán and Sádaba, Igor (eds.), Metodología de la
investigación social. Técnicas innovadoras y sus aplicaciones, Madrid: Síntesis,
251-269
SCHNETTLER, Bernt, BAER, Alejandro (2012): Holocaust-Erinnerungskultur als
Wissensnetzwerk: Zwischen globaler Wertegemeinschaft und universaler
Symbolkultur [Holocaust Remembrance Culture as Network of Knowledge:
Between Global Community of Values and Universal Symbolic Culture],
Verhandlungen des Jubiläumskongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Soziologie in Frankfurt 2010, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 633-648.
BAER, Alejandro (2011): Dátiles del mar muerto y tanques judíos. Apuntes sobre la
imagen de Israel en España [Dates from the Dead Sea and Jewish Tanks. Notes
on the Image of Israel in Spain], in: J. Tobías and A. Lavié (eds.), Israel. Siglo XXI.
Tradición y Vanguardia, La Coruña: Editorial Netbiblio.
FERRANDIZ, Francisco, BAER, Alejandro (2011) Violencia política y memoria digital: las
exhumaciones de fosas comunes de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) en la España
contemporánea [Political Violence and Digital Memory: Exhumations of Mass
Graves from the Civil War (1936-1939) in Contemporary Spain], in: Y. Segovia
and B. Nates Cruz (eds.), Territorios, identidades y violencias, Manizales
(Colombia): Ed. Universidad de los Andes.
BAER, Alejandro (2010): La memoria social: breve guía para perplejos [Social
Memory: a Guide for the Perplexed], in: J.A. Zamora und A. Sucasas (Eds.),
Memoria - Política – Justicia. En diálogo con Reyes Mate, Madrid: Editorial
Trotta, 131-148.
SCHNETTLER, Bernt, BAER, Alejandro and ZIFONUN,Dariuš (2010): Transnationale
Gedächtniskultur? Ansätze einer ländervergleichenden Performanzanalyse von
Erinnerungsritualen am Beispiel des 27. Januars [Transnational Memory?
Appraisal on a Comparative Study of Remembrance Rituals taking the
example of January 27th], in: Soeffner, Hans-Georg (ed.), Unsichere Zeiten.
Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34.
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Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Jena 2008, Wiesbaden:
VS-Verlag.
BAER, Alejandro & LOPEZ, Paula (2010): Israel en el callejón del gato. El conflicto de
Gaza y Líbano de 2006 en el humor gráfico español [Israel in the Alley of Mirrors:
The Gaza and Lebanon Conflicts of 2006 in Spanish Cartoons], in: Israel en los
medios españoles (2006-2009). Hebraica Ediciones. Madrid.
BAER, Alejandro (2009), Zwischen Aufhetzung und Verurteilung: Die Rezeption des
Novemberpogroms im Spanien des Bürgerkriegs [Between Incitement and
Condemnation: The November Pogroms of 1938 in Civil War Spain], in: Die
November-Pogrome 1938. Versuch einer Bilanz, Stiftung Topographie des
Terrors, Berlin.
BAER, Alejandro & SCHNETTLER, Bernt (2008), Hacia una metodología cualitativa
audiovisual. El video como instrumento de investigación social [Towards an
audiovisual qualitative methodlogy. Video as an Instrument for Social
Research], in: Aldo Merlino (ed.) Investigación cualitativa en ciencias sociales:
temas y problemas, Buenos Aires: Thompson Learning, 149 – 173.
FINKEL, Lucila, PARRA, Pilar & BAER, Alejandro (2008), La entrevista abierta en la
investigación social [The Open Interview in Social Research], in: Angel Gordo
und Araceli Serrano (eds.) Prácticas de investigación social cualitativa,
Pearson: Madrid, 127–154.
SABANOGLU, Albert & BAER, Alejandro (2006), Israel en los medios españoles.
¿Camino hacia la normalización? [Israel in the Spanish Media. On the Way to
Normalization?], in: Jacobo Israel Garzón (eds.), España-Israel. 20 años de
relaciones, Hebraica Ediciones: Madrid, 79–95.
FRANCESCUTTI, Pablo, BAER, Alejandro, GARCÍA, José & LÓPEZ, Paula (2005), La
noche de los móviles: medios, redes de confianza y movilización juvenil [The
Night of Cell Phones: Media, Networks and Youth Mobilization] , in: Victor
Sampedro (eds.), 13-M Multitudes Online, La Catarata: Madrid, 65–85.
BAER, Alejandro & ZUKIERMAN, Federico (2005), Israel y el judaísmo en el humor
gráfico español [Israel and Judaism in Spanish Cartoons] in: J. Israel Garzón, A.
Baer et.al (eds.) El estigma imborrable. Reflexiones sobre nuevo antisemisimo,
Hebraica Ediciones: Madrid, 71–108.
Book reviews
Susanne Zepp and Antonio Gòmez López-Quiñones (eds.) (2010): The Holocaust in
Spanish Memory. Historical Perceptions and Cultural Discourse, Leipziger
Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur. Band VII. Leipzig: Leipziger
Universitätsverlag, 2010. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2012, forthcoming).
Sokol, Neal (2004): Ilan Stavans: Eight conversations. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press. Raíces, 61 (2005), S. 64-65.
Finkelstein, Norman (2002): La industria del Holocausto, Madrid: Siglo XXI. Raíces, 54
(2003), S. 33-36.
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Saul Friedlander (ed.) Probing the Limits of Representation. Nazism and the Final
Solution, Isegoría, 23 (2000), S. 265– 268.

Op-Eds in daily newspapers
BAER, Alejandro »A study to deny a problem«, Jerusalem Post, 18. October 2010 (with
Robin Stoller).
BAER, Alejandro, »La España en guerra ante la Kristallnacht« (Spain at War and the
Kristallnacht), El País, 11. November 2008.
BAER, Alejandro, »No dibujarás…« (You shall not draw...) (on the Mohamed cartoons
debate) , ABC, 7 March 2006.
Other Publications
Research Paper »Zur Judenrettung Spanischer Diplomaten: Fakten, Mythen und
Erinnerungspolitik« [On the Rescue of Jews by Spanish Diplomats: Facts, Myths
and Memory Politics], 3. Internationale Konferenz zur Holocaustforschung, Berlin
2011.http://www.konferenz-
holocaustforschung.de/wpcontent/uploads/2011/03/Vortrag_Baer.pdf
Exhibition Book »Visas for Freedom. Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust« (Spanish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 2009.
Article »Antisemitism in Spain. Old or new?« European Forum on Antisemitism. 5.
January 2009. On-line at: http://www.european-forum-on-
antisemitism.org/berlin-alert/view/article/exclusive-antisemitism-in-spain-old-or-
new/
E-Learinng Material »El método biográfico« [The Biograhpic Method]. On-line
Program for the Degree of Sociolgy and Social Work – Universidad de la Rioja,
2002.
Article »Auschwitz en el cine y la televisión« [Auschwitz in Cinema and Television].
Instituto de Filosofía – CSIC. (www.ifs.csic.es), 2002.
Article »Imagen y memoria: audiovisuales sobre Desaparecidos en el Cono Sur
[Image and Memory: Films on the Desaparecidos in the Southern Cone]« ,
(www.ari-peru.org), 2001.
Article »Los judíos en el humor gráfico« [The Jews in Political Cartoons] in Lateral,
Revista de cultura, 107, 2003.
Regular contributions for the Argentinian cultural weekly magazine La Maga,
(July1992- October 1994).
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Documentary Films
“Oasis en tierra extraña” (on Ecuadorian immigration in Madrid). AIRE
COMUNICACION y Colectivo Universitario de Producción Audiovisual en
Ciencias Sociales. 2002, 40 min. (Research and Production).
Didactic Film “Epistemología y Metodología Audiovisual” (Audiovisual Epistemology
and Methodology), 1999, 25 min. (Research, Script and Production).

Publication Projects
Special issue on “Visual Sociology” for the journal Soziale Welt (with Bernt Schnettler)
Bookproject: Jews and Judaism in Present-day Spain: Specters, Myths and Realities.
Bookproject: Methoden in der sozialen Erinnerungsforschung [Methods in Social
Memory Research] (with Michael Heinlein and Oliver Dimbath).
Paper: “Between Massgraves and Stumbling Stones: the ´Lieux de Mémoire´
revisited” (with Natan Sznaider).
Paper: “Visualizing Traumatic Memory” (with Francisco Ferrandiz)

L A N G U A G E S
English Fluency in speaking and reading, good competency in writing.
Translations, teaching experience, Publications.
German Fluency in speaking and reading, good competency in writing.
Translations, teaching experience, publications.
Spanish Native language. Translations, teaching experience, publications.
Hebrew Basic knowledge in speaking and reading.
French Some knowledge in speaking and reading.
F U N D E D R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T S
(Current projects)
§ Cross-Cultural Comparison of Holocaust Remembrance Rituals in
Germany and Spain– A Case Study on January 27th.
This project combines communications, social anthropology and cultural studies
with a focus on memory and ritual. It aims to compare the commemoration
culture in Germany and Spain, focusing on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan.
27th). Centred on the same event, contrasting these two highly diverse national
memory cultures enables to contribute answers to the question of continuing
differences or emerging convergences and the evolution of a ‘globalized
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memory’ or a trend towards the ‘cosmopolitization’ of remembrance. Joined
project with Prof. Bernt Schnettler (Universität Bayreuth), Prof. Dariuš Zifonun (Alice
Salomon Hochschule Berlin), and Prof. Esmeralda Ballesteros (Universidad
Complutense Madrid).
§ The Politics of Memory in Spain: Analysis of the impact of exhumations in the early
years of the twenty-first century. [Las políticas de la memoria en la España
contemporánea: Análisis del impacto de las exhumaciones de fosas comunes de
la Guerra Civil en los primeros años del siglo XXI]. Leading Researcher: Prof.
Francisco Ferrándiz (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).
§ Philosophy after the Holocaust III [Filosofía después del Holocausto III: Vigencias
de sus lógicas perversas]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science, Spain. Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Manuel Reyes Mate
Rupérez(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).
(Finished projects)
A. Projects as leading researcher
2008-2011
§ Qualitative Video analysis in Social Research. Leading Researchers: Alejandro
Baer and Bernt Schenttler, Funded by the Deutsche Akademische Austausch
Dienst (DAAD) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
2006–2007
§ Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust. Research and production of the
exhibition and exhibition book. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
2001-2002
§ Ecuadorian immigration and public spaces in Madrid. [Inmigración
ecuatoriana y espacios públicos de Madrid«). Spanish Agency for
Development and International Cooperation (AECID) and Cáritas Spain.
Leading Researchers: A. Baer, P. Francescutti, A.Jerez.
2002–2003
§ Survey Evaluation on the Graduate Program at the Institute of Sociology and
Political Science, Complutense University Madrid [Evaluación de la oferta y
calidad de los estudios de Tercer Ciclo, UCM], Complutense University Madrid.

B. Projects as a member of the research team:
2006–2008
§ The Construction of the Event: the Historical Discourse of the Spanish Press on
the March 11 Terrorist Attacks. [La construcción del acontecimiento: el
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discurso histórico de la prensa española frente a los atentados del 11 de
marzo]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Spain
Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Jorge Lozano Hernández (Universidad
Complutense Madrid).
2005–2008
• Philosophy after the Holocaust II: Memory and Justice II, [Filosofía después del
Holocausto III: Justicia y Memoria, financiado por el Ministerio de Educación y
Ciencia, España]. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science,
Spain. Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Manuel Reyes Mate Rupérez (Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).
2005–2007
§ Politics, Information and Citizenship during Elections. [Política, información y
ciudadanía en campaña electoral] Funded by the Ministry of Education and
Science, Spain. Leading Researcher: Prof. Dr. Enric Saperas Lapiedra
(Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid).
F U N D E D P R O J E C T S F O R T H E I M P R O V E M E N T O F
T E A C H I N G
2005
§ Qualitative Interviews in Social Research: Development of Pedagogical
Materials. Proyecto Innovación y Mejora de la Calidad Docente 2005/321,
Complutense University, Madrid. (Group Project: Dept. Sociología IV).
1999
§ Teaching Discussion Group Methodology: Audiovisual Materials. Proyecto de
Innovación Educativa PIE 99/19, Complutense University, Madrid. (Leading
Professor: Miguel S. Valles).

S C H O L A R S H I P S A N D G R A N T S
2002 International Travel Grant (New York University) Universidad Complutense
Madrid.
2001 International Travel Grant (Fritz Bauer Institute), Universidad Complutense
Madrid.
2000 International Travel Grant (Univ. of California Los Angeles), Universidad
Complutense Madrid.
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