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Professor of History
Director, Center for Austrian Studies

Research Interests

  • Social and political development in 19 th century Central Europe
  • Ethnic and national identities, ethnic group relations
  • Jewish experience in modern Central and East-Central Europe

Selected Publications

Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue University Press, 1996)

The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 revised, second edition (W. Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2006)

“Deutsche, Juden und Tschechen in Prag: das Sozialleben des Alltags, 1890-1924,” in Allemands, Juifs et Tcheques à Prague -- Deutsche, Juden und Tschechen in Prag, 1890-1924, eds. Maurice Godé, J. Le Rider, F. Mayer (Montpellier: Université Paul-Valéry, 1996) [Published in Czech as "Nemci, zidé a ceši v Praze: Spolecensky zivot všedního dne 1890-1914," Dejiny a soucasnost 20.4 (1998)]

“Ideals and Reality in the Austrian Universities, 1850-1914,” in Rediscovering History: Politics, Culture and the Psyche, ed. Michael S. Roth (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1994)

“Education, Social Mobility, and the Austrian Jews 1860-1910,” in Bildungswesen und Sozialstruktur in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [Studien und Dokumentation zur vergleichenden Bildungsforschung, v. 42], eds. Victor Karady and Wolfgang Mitter (Cologne and Vienna, 1990)

“Society and Culture in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in the Late Nineteenth Century,” The East European Quarterly 20.4 (January 1987)

“Jews in German Liberal Politics: Prague, 1860-1914,” Jewish History 1.1 (Spring 1986).

“Jews in German Society: Prague, 1860-1914,” Central European History 10 (1977) [reprinted in Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933: The Problematic Symbiosis, ed. David Bronsen ( Heidelberg, 1979)]

Zbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B. Cohen, eds., The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe (Berghahn Books, 2006)

"Nationalist Politics and the Dynamics of State and Civil Sociey in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1867-1914," Central European History 40 (2007):  241-78

"Jan Havránek: ucitel mimorádných qvalit" ["Jan Havránek: Mentor extraordinaire"], in Magister noster.  Studies dedicated to Prof. PhDr. Jan Havránek, Csc., in memoriam, edited by Michal Svatos, Lubos Velek, and Alice Velková (Prague: Karolinum - The Charles University Press, 2005), pp. 31-36

Courses

History 3747: Habsburg Central Europe, 1740-1918
History 3244: History of Eastern Europe
History 5777:  Proseminar: Habsburg Central Europe, 1740-1918
History 5900:  Proseminar: Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century