Heather L. Gumbert

• Modern Europe/ Germany
• Cultural History
• Television and Media Studies

• Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
• M.A. The University of Texas at Austin
• B.A. Trent University

• Associate Chair, Department of History, 2016-
• Executive Editor, Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review, Virginia Tech, 2014-
• Faculty Principal, The Honors Residential College 2013—2014 
• American Historical Association (AHA)
• German Studies Association (GSA)

• Excellence in Administration Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2019
• Edward S. Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, Virginia Tech, 2015
• Favorite Faculty Award, Division of Student Affairs, Virginia Tech, 2012 and 2014
• Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2013
• Barnes F. Lathrop Prize for Best Dissertation in History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007

Books

Envisioning Socialism: Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014).

Journal Articles

"Exploring Transnational Media Exchange in the 1960s" in VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture 3, no. 5 (2014), 50-59.

“Cold War Theaters: Cosmonaut Titov at the Berlin Wall” in Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration, Culture and Soviet Society in the Khrushchev and Cold War Era, edited by James Andrews and Asif Siddiqi (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 240-262.

“Constructing a Socialist Landmark: the Berlin Television Tower” in Berlin, Divided City, edited by Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake (Providence, R.I.: Berghahn, 2010), 89-99.

Book Chapters