Manuela Achilles is Professor of German and History, and Director of the Center for German Studies at UVA. Her work examines the political culture of Central Europe in transnational perspective with emphases on Weimar democracy, fascism, Holocaust memory, and sustainability. She is the author of Invisible Fatherland: Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany (Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2025) and co-editor of Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her next book, Hitler and the Holocaust, is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. Recent online essays include: “Nazis into Victims: Holocaust Fiction without Perpetrators” (literaturkritik.de, 2024); "Trade Policy as an Assertion of Power: Reading Hirschman to Understand the Donald Trump Administration (Global Europe, 2025, with Peter Debaere); and “The Israel-Hamas War: Where is Europe?" (EuropeNow Daily, 2023, with Peter Debaere).