Jeremy King

e-mail: jking@mtholyoke.edu

 

 

3 Burnett Avenue                                                                                             Department of History

South Hadley, MA 01075                                                                               Skinner Hall      

tel: 413-535-0129                                                                                           Mt. Holyoke College

fax: 413-538-2513                                                                                          South Hadley, MA 01075

                                               tel: 413-538-2749

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1998, Columbia University, Department of History

B.A., 1985, Yale College, Russian and East European Studies 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE & EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Mt. Holyoke College, May 1998-present

Instructor, Department of History, Mt. Holyoke College, July 1996-May 1998

Tutor, Department of History, Harvard University, 1995-96

 

PUBLICATIONS

Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2002).

 

AOd Budweiserç k „echçm a NŤmcçm@ [Czech translation of the introduction to Budweisers into Czechs and Germans], in Jiho…eský sborník historický, vol. 71 (2002).

 

Review (in Czech) of Jan Mareš, Kohoutí kÍíń. Šumavské ozvŤny/’s Hohnakreiz. Des Waldes Widerhall, a web site (2001) viewable at platon.cbvk.cz/kniha, in Jiho…eský sborník historický, vol. 71 (2002).

 

Review of Monika Glettler and Alena Miskova, eds., Prager Professoren 1938-1948. Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik (Essen: Klartext, 2001), in HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, an electronic publication, September 2002.

            [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=103721033965773]

 

Review of John C. Swanson, The Remnants of the Habsburg Monarchy: The Shaping of Modern Austria and Hungary, 1918-1922 (Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 2001), in International History Review, vol. 24, no. 3 (September 2002), pp. 669-71.

 

AAustria vs. Hungary: Nationhood, Statehood, and Violence since 1867,@ in Philipp Ther and Holm Sundhaussen, eds., Nationalitätenkonflikte im 20. Jahrhundert. Ursachen von inter-ethnischer Gewalt im europäischen Vergleich (Berlin: Harrassowitz, 2001), pp. 163-182.

 

AThe Nationalization of East Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond,@ in Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur, eds., Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2001), pp. 112-52.

 

Review of Gary Cohen, Education and Middle-class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1996), in Nationalities Papers, vol. 27 (1999), pp. 339-40.

 

Review of Christoph Reinprecht, Nostalgie und Amnesie. Bewertungen von Vergangenheit in der Tschechischen Republik und in Ungarn (Wien: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, 1996), for HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, an electronic publication, May 1997.

[http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=19143867094321]

 

Review of Hugh Agnew, Origins of the Czech National Renascence (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1993), in Nationalities Papers, vol. 14 (1996), pp. 748-50.

 

Review of Stefan Karner, Die Steiermark im Dritten Reich 1938-1945, third edition (Graz: Leykam, 1994), for HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, an electronic publication, March 1996.

[http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13852850532035]

 

SCHOLARLY PAPERS DELIVERED

Commentator, ACities and Nations in the Habsburg Monarchy: Reflections and Images.@ American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention, Crystal City, VA, November 2001.

 

A>Ethnicity= as National Argument.@ American Historical Association convention, Boston, January 2001.

 

ACzechness, Germanness, and Hungarianness in Historical Perspective, 1848-1945.@ Colloquium of the Center for the Comparative History of Europe, Free University, Berlin, June 5, 2000.

 

AThe Nationalization Of East Central Europe, 1848 to the Present.@ American Academy in Berlin, May 23, 2000.

 

AAustria vs. Hungary. Nationalism, Statehood, and Violence from Local Perspectives.@ Center for the Comparative History of Europe, Free University, Berlin, May 19, 2000.

 

ACensuses and National Minorities in East Central Europe.@ Lecture Series on Minorities and Minority Conflicts in Change: East Central and Eastern Europe in Upheaval. Institute for the Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, May 16, 2000.

 

AAusgleiche: A Tradition of Political Settlement in East Central Europe, 1848 to the Present.@ Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe, University of Leipzig, April 19, 2000.

 

ANations and Municipal Politics in Late Imperial Austria.@ Symposium in honor of Professor István Deák, Columbia University, New York City, March 2000.

 

AEthnizismus am Beispiel der Stadt Budweis (Böhmen) seit 1848.@ Forschungskolloquium zur neueren Geschichte, Technische Universität Berlin, February 15, 2000.

 

ASocial, National, and Imperial Aspects to Enfranchisement in Budweis/BudŤjovice, circa 1900.@ American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention, St. Louis, November 1999 (in absentia).

 

Commentator, ACentral Europe in the Nineteenth Century.@ Historical Society convention, Boston, May 1999.

 

ADebunking Ethnicity in East Central Europe.@ Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 29, 1999.

 

AThe Nationalization of East Central Europe, 1848 to the Present.@  NYU Department of History, New York City, February 9, 1999.

 

Featured speaker, Wilder House Editorial Board, Cornell University Press. University of Chicago, December 11, 1998.

 

ALoyalty, Polity, Membership.@ Cornell University Department of History Europeanist Colloquium, Ithaca, NY, November 18, 1998.

 

Commentator, ANational Landscapes: Creating the Modern Nation in the Czech and Hungarian Lands.@ American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention, Boca Raton, FL, September 1998 (in absentia).

 

ANationhood in Central Europe. A Supranational Approach.@ UCLA Workshop in Comparative Social Analysis, Los Angeles, April 1998.

 

ALoyalty or Ethnicity. Nationhood in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1946.@ University of Michigan conference on Vocabularies of Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe, Ann Arbor, MI, April 1998.

 

Commentator, AImages of King and Emperor: The Representation of Power and Rulership across the Centuries.@ American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention, Seattle, November 1997.

 

Commentator, AThe Limits of Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia.@ American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention, Seattle, November 1997.

 

AThe Social and the National in Late Nineteenth-Century Austria.@ Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1997.

 

ANationalism in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1948: A New Approach.@ Department of History and Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest, March 1997.

 

ACzech? German? The National Separation of Souls under Habsburg Rule.@ 5-College History Seminar, Amherst, MA, April 1997.

 

ABudweisers: Politics in Habsburg Central Europe as Seen through Beer.@ Five-College Slavic Seminar, Amherst, MA, February 1997.

 

AThe Habsburg Monarchy's Legacy to the National Problem,@ George Washington University, Washington, D.C., April 1996.

 

ALocal Perspectives on National Movements in Habsburg Central Europe: A Comparison of Two Statues,@ American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention, Washington, D.C., October 1995.

 

AFrom Empire to Nation-States: Upheaval in the Habsburg Lands of Central Europe, 1848-1948,@ Woodrow Wilson Center Junior Scholars' Training Seminar, Washington, D.C., August 1995.

 

AEthnicity and Ethnic Conflict from a Historian's Perspective,@ Harvard University Center for International Affairs Conference on Designing Social Inquiry into Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict, Cambridge, MA, April 1995.

 

AThe Habsburg Succession in East Central Europe,@ SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 1993.

 

ASinking Islands: German Towns in non-German Central Europe, 1848-1948,@ American Historical Association convention, Washington, D.C., December 1992.

 

ABudweis/BudŤjovice: the Politics of Ethnic Change,@ SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Conference, Harare, Zimbabwe, May 1992.

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Historical Association

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Czech and Slovak History Conference

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Five-College Committee on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2002

Prize Committee, Austrian Cultural Forum prize for best dissertation in Austrian history, 2002

Member, board of editors, Nationalities Papers, 2002-6

Mt. Holyoke College Department of History fellowships coordinator, 2001-present

Treasurer, Mt. Holyoke College chapter of AAUP, 2000-present

Mt. Holyoke College Faculty Planning and Budget Committee, January 1998-present

Mt. Holyoke College Phi Beta Kappa Prize Committee, 1998-99

Member of the following interdisciplinary programs at Mt. Holyoke College: International Relations, European Studies, and Jewish Studies

Committee for the Five-College Guide to Primary Sources in History, 1996-97

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Mt. Holyoke College Faculty Grant, 2001

Best Dissertation in Austrian History, Austrian Cultural Institute/Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, 2000

Mt. Holyoke College Faculty Grant, 1999

Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 1999-2000

Ph.D. awarded with Distinction, 1998

American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellow, 1995-96

Columbia University Whiting Fellow, 1995-96

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 1993-95

National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow, 1993

SSRC-MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security, 1991-93

IREX Fellow in the Czech, Slovene, and Hungarian Republics, 1991-93

President's Fellow at Columbia University, 1989-90

American Council of Learned Societies Advanced Graduate Fellow, 1989-90

Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, 1987-92

Columbia University Hofstadter Fellow, 1987-92

B.A. awarded summa cum laude, with Distinction in the Major, Phi Beta Kappa, 1985

 

TRAVEL, STUDY, AND WORK

Austria: study of German in Vienna, summer 1988. Shorter visits in 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993,   2002

 

Czech Republic: study of Czech language, literature, and history in Prague, summer 1984 and fall 1986. Dissertation research in „eské BudŤjovice, November 1991-February 1992. Shorter visits in 1999, 2000

 

Germany: internship at Radio Free Europe in Munich, summer 1989. Residence and writing at the American Academy in Berlin, July 1999-July 2000

 

Hungary: study of Hungarian language and history in Budapest, November 1986-June 1987. Work for Gannett Foundation as East European consultant, summer 1990. Dissertation research in Sopron, spring 1993. Shorter visits in 1994, 1997

 

Israel: study of Hungarian in Jerusalem, summer 1987

 

Slovenia: study of Slovene, summer 1990. Dissertation research in Maribor, summer 1992

 

Turkey: study of Turkish at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, summer 1984 and summer 1985