Modern Europe

The Modern European field offers a broad array of courses, methodologies, and thematic emphases, including social and gender history, political and diplomatic history, state-building and modernization, comparative ethnic politics and nationalism, history of science, and religious history. Georgetown University's Center for German and European Studies—located one floor beneath the History Department—provides additional opportunities for joint-degree programs, cross-disciplinary contacts, discussion fora, speaker series, and seminars in the area of European history, politics, and culture.

In addition to Georgetown University's own rich faculty and library resources, its location in Washington, D.C. offers students the opportunity to conduct research in the Library of Congress, the National Archives (brief summary of State Department documents concerning Europe), and the Holocaust Museum Library and Holocaust Museum archival collections, all of which house important materials relating to Modern European History.

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Faculty:

CHICKERING, Roger (PhD, Stanford 1968; prof. and faculty, Center for German and European Studies)
Modern Germany

HORVATH-PETERSON, Sandra (PhD, Catholic 1971; assoc. prof.)
Modern France (esp. social and religious)

MCNEILL, John (PhD, Duke 1981; prof., Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies)
Environmental, Mediterranean, Atlantic

OLESKO, Kathryn (PhD, Cornell 1980; assoc. prof. and faculty, Center for German and European Studies; editor, Osiris)
17th-20th century European science and technology; modern European intellectual history

ROSHWALD, Aviel (PhD, Harvard 1987; prof.)
19th- and 20th-century European diplomatic, ethnic politics and nationalism

SHEDEL, James P. (PhD, Rochester 1978; assoc. prof.)
Habsburg Austria, Germany, Central Europe

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For more information regarding graduate studies in Modern European History at Georgetown, please contact Professor Roger Chickering (faculty area representative to the Graduate Studies Committee). In addition, we encourage you to contact current graduate students for their perspectives on the program; they will also be glad to answer any questions you may have. The following students, listed with their chosen fields and specializations, have agreed to serve as contacts.

Megan M. Faller
Research: Women in 1^st Republic Austria/arts & culture
Collateral: Gender history

Andy Wackerfuss, ABD
Research: Modern Germany
Dissertation: "Sexuality, Spirituality and the Everyday Life of the Hamburg Stormtroopers, 1918-1934"
Minor: Russia
Collateral: German & European Studies

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Photo Credit:

"Getting Married in Hamburg"

Image taken from the dissertation of Andy Wackerfuss, "The Stormtrooper Family: How Sexuality, Spirituality, and Community Shaped the Hamburg SA."

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