Dr. Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker
Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Wiekamp Hall, Room DW3269
(574) 520-4231
zwicker@iusb.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of History
Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Avenue
PO Box 7111
South Bend, IN 46634-7111
About Professor Zwicker
A study abroad trip to Salzburg, Austria after her freshman year in college, helped Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker decide to become a historian of German-speaking Central Europe. Zwicker earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in History at the University of California Berkeley and joined the History Department at IU South Bend in 2004. She is currently Professor of History with a specialty in German history.
Zwicker writes about gender, everyday life, and social change around the turn of the century in Germany. Her recent published work examines the history of emotions, pioneering Jewish women in Central Europe, and the first generation of modern Catholic women leaders in Germany. She is currently drafting a book on Lina Morgenstern and her family: Lina and her Sisters, the Bauers from Breslau: Jewish Women Cultivating Love and Working for Justice in the Long Nineteenth Century.
At IU South Bend, Professor Zwicker teaches European history surveys as well as general education courses on World War I, National Socialist Germany, and Biography and Gender in European history. Her first book considered German university students and their politics, Dueling Students: Conflict, Masculinity, and Politics, in Germany 1890-1914, and she built on that interest in the history of higher education to teach a seminar on the history of IU South Bend as part of the IU Bicentennial celebration. She particularly enjoys teaching reacting to the past courses in which students become characters from the past and draw on primary sources to debate historical topics. She has used the Reacting pedagogy in courses on Charles Darwin’s World, the French Revolution, and Turning Points in Asian History.
Together with Jeff Luppes, Kelcey Ervick, and Susan Moore, she has led five study abroad trips to Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland, and she loves introducing students to her favorite city, Berlin! In 2013 she became international programs director and collaborated with trip leaders, student interns, and campus administrators to achieve the strategic plan goal of doubling the number of students studying abroad at IU South Bend.
Recent Publications
Co-edited with Martina Cucchiara, Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond. Rochester, NY: Camden, 2025. It will appear in the series "Women and Gender in German Studies," edited by Elisabeth Krimmer.
Co-authored with Sarah Wobick-Segev. "Grieving at the Crossroads of Heaven and Earth: Anna Bauer's Youthful Diary and Nineteenth-Century Jewish Prayerbooks as Emotional Scripts." In Women, Religion, and the Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond, Edited by Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker and Martina Cucchiara, 182-198. Rochester, NY: Camden, 2025.
"The Life of Saint Elizabeth (1207-1231), Twentieth-Century German Women's Rights, and the Ideal of Christian Love" accepted for publication in the Journal of Women's History.
Article jointly co-authored with undergraduate student Jason Rose, "Women of Jewish Descent and Marriage in German-Speaking Central Europe, 1830-1970." Central European History Vol. 53, no. 4 (2020): 703-740.
Lisa Zwicker is also Director of International Programs
Find out more about Lisa Zwicker's research at
http://iusb.academia.edu/LisaFetheringillZwicker
Find out more about Liza Zwicker's contributions to IU South Bend's study abroad program—which earned her a John Ryan Award—at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_PFW0RgnpnUu6vAdsIGCbfj_Mu2oa-qI/view?usp=sharing