in art history from the University of Hamburg in 1987, with a thesis about a 1949 memorial dedicated "to the Victims of National Socialist Persecution and the Resistance Struggle".
[3] In 1985, Marcuse co-produced a photographic exhibition on monuments and memorials commemorating events of the Nazi and World War II periods.
[2] Marcuse says that since the end of World War II, much art, literature and public debate in Germany have revolved around the issues of resistance, collaboration and complicity with the Third Reich.
This in turn led him to study the effects of the No Child Left Behind Act on his local school system from 2004 to 2008.
[1][10] Since 2002 he has worked to reform the University of California, Santa Barbara General Education Curriculum.