Jeremy King

Associate Professor of History

Specialization
Central and Eastern Europe, nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Jeremy King recently completed a study of Czech and German nationalism between 1848 and 1948 in the Bohemian lands, which now make up the Czech Republic (see Princeton University Press link, below). His current research focuses on efforts during the final years of the Habsburg Monarchy at elaborating constitutional frameworks within which national or "racial" conflict (Czech-German, Serb-Croat-Muslim, etc.) could be managed and reduced. He is also researching questions connected to legal and historiographical definitions of such concepts as "nation," "ethnic group," and "race."

At Mount Holyoke, King regularly teaches courses on the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states (with a focus on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Yugoslavia), on modern Germany, on the Second World War, and on the Communist era in "Eastern Europe." He also teaches History 151: Modern and Contemporary Europe, a requirement for the international relations major. King has held research fellowships at Harvard University and at the American Academy in Berlin, and has lived for several years in various cities of the former Habsburg Monarchy, including Prague, Budapest, and Vienna. In the summer of 1989, he held an internship at the Hungarian Section of Radio Free Europe, in Munich.

During 2004-2005, King was on sabbatical as a Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He currently is writing a book about constitutional frameworks for managing nationalist
conflict.

Princeton University Press, Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948