Brendan Fay

Dr. Brendan Fay, Ph.D., is the Associate Professor of Library Management at Emporia State University, with broad interests in the function of information within closed societies, with a special focus on Nazi Germany. Fay’s research examines the role of conspiracy theories in helping bring the Nazis to power, consolidating rule and radicalizing policy over the course of the Third Reich. His first book was My Classical Music in Weimar Germany: Culture and Politics before the Third Reich and he is working on a manuscript tentatively titled The Power of Conspiracy: Nazi Information Worlds Between Weimar and the Third Reich.