Paul Lerner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California where he directs the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. He is the author of Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890 1930, also from Cornell, and coeditor of Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History and Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870 1930.