Outputs (3)

Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education (2023)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Mills, G. (2024). Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education. Holocaust Studies, 30(1), 47-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2023.2249296

Based on a sample of the most commonly used textbooks and online teaching resources, we find that photos play a central but deeply problematic role in Holocaust education in the UK. The impact of photos on a generation of ‘primarily visual learners’... Read More about Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M., Umbach, M., & Clulow, Z. (2019). The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1589958

The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, howeve... Read More about The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course.

Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story (2018)
Book
Umbach, M., & Sulzener, S. (2018). Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00784-3

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States. Using the texts and images from a personal archive, this book explores how these refugees made sense of... Read More about Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story.