RECENT EXTERNAL GRANTS:
Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, Czech Republic, 2003-2004.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Short-Term Research Grant. Summer 2002.
International Research and Exchanges Short-Term Travel Grant, Czech Republic. Summer 2001.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
Books and Book-Length Volumes
Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,  2007.

Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Co-editor with Maria Bucur.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006 (Simultaneous Hardback and Paper Editions).

Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe.  Editor.  Austrian History, Culture & Society Series, volume 4.  New York: Berghahn Books, 2003 (Paper 2004).

Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present. Co-editor with Maria Bucur. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press,  2001.

Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II, 3rd ed. Co-author with Joseph Rothschild. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Guest editor, "Czech-Sudeten German Relations" 24/1 Nationalities Papers (March 1996).

Minority Politics in a Multinational State: The German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938. Boulder: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1989.

Select Articles
"Echos of the Riehl Trial in Fin-de-Siècle Cisleithania," Forum in Austrian History Yearbook 38 (2007): 36-47.

"The Politics of Memory: Constructing National Identity in the Czech Lands during the Postwar Period," East European Politics and Societies 14/2 (Spring 2000): 246-67.

"When Film Became National: 'Talkies' and the Anti-German Demonstrations of 1930 in Prague," Austrian History Yearbook (1998):113-38.

"Conflicting Constructions of Memory: Attacks on Statues of Joseph II in the Bohemian Lands after the Great War," Austrian History Yearbook (1997): 147-71.

"Film jako otázka národní identity: zvukové filmy a prazské protinmecké demonstrace v roce 1930," Iluminace 8/4 (1996): 5-33.

Book Chapters
"Emperor Joseph II in the Austrian Imagination to 1914," in The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, ed. by Laurence Cole and Daniel Unowsky.    Austrian History, Culture & Society Series.  New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2007.

"The Sacred and the Profane: Religion and Nationalism in the Bohemian Crownlands,  1880-1920," with Cynthia J. Paces, in Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe, ed. by Pieter Judson and Marsha Rozenblit.  Austrian History, Culture & Society Series.  New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.

"Statues of Joseph II as Sites of German Identity," in Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present,  168-95.

Review Essay
"The Problem with 'Backwardness': Ivan T. Berend's Central and Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," 34/4 European History Quarterly (October 2004): 534-50.

On-line Publication:
"Framing Essay," on-line publication for /Women and World History/ Fairfax, VA: Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2005.  http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/wwhprimary.html

Recent Miscellaneous Publications:
"Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia" and "Prague," Encyclopedia of Europe: 1789-1918. John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds.-in-chief. New York: Charles Schribner’s Sons, October 2006.

LANGUAGES OF RESEARCH: Czech, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish.

SELECT SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
"National  Commemorations of the Battle of Zborov in a Multinational State."  Conference on Sacrifice and Regeneration, University of Southampton, England, September 2007.

With Dagmar Hájková, "Czech (-oslovak) Commemoration of the Great War: The Battle of the White Mountain Avenged, 1918-1938."  Workshop on the Commemoration of the Great War in East-Central Europe 1918-1939.  Central European University, Budapest, March 2007.

"Karlsbad: Prostitution in an Austrian Spa Town at the Turn of the Century."  Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, November 2006.

"How Prague Became Czech: Designing Public Space in the Late Nineteenth Century."  European Association for Urban History, Stockholm, September 2006.

"Echoes of the Riehl Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Cisleithania." American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2006.

"The Influence of the Riehl Trial on the Regulation of Prostitution at the Austrian Fin-de-Siècle." 'Behaving Badly-Again!' 4th Annual SOLON Conference, Nottingham, England, September 2005.

“Masculinity Reflected in Attitudes toward Prostitution in Late Imperial Cisleithania." VI. World Congress of the ICCEES. Berlin, July 2005.

"Regulating Prostitution in Late Imperial Cisleithania: The Example of the Bohemian Lands." Conference to mark the 50th anniversary of Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, “Women’s Sexualities: Historical, Interdisciplinary, and International Perspectives.” Bloomington, Indiana, November 2003. (Revised version of paper listed below.)

"The Regulation of Prostitution in Late Imperial Cisleithania: The Example of the Bohemian Lands."  International Federation for Research in Women's History Conference.  Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 2003.

"The Body and Commemoration in Communist Czechoslovakia." 72nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London, England, July 2003.

Round Table Participant, "Nationalism: The Civic/Ethnic Dichotomy Revisited." American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2006.

Discussant, "Looking Forward to the 19th Century? Visual Self-Representation of Central and Eastern European States Since 1989." VI. World Congress of the ICCEES. Berlin, July 2005.

Discussant, "Urban Innovations: Politics and Nationalism in Central Europe." Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, December 2004.

RECENT INVITED LECTURES:
"Prostitution in the Bohemian Lands at the Fin-de-Siècle," Gender Studies Group of the English Institute at Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland, May 2005.

"'Pryc z hostence': Attitudes toward Prostitution in the Bohemian Lands at the Fin de Siècle," Lecture for University of Dundee students and faculty in Prague, January 2004.

"The Politics of Commemoration: Reconstructing the Commemorative Landscape in Postwar Czechoslovakia," Doctoral Colloquium, Department of History, Charles University, Prague, October 2003.

"'Ego History': How an American Came to Study East Central Europe," Erasmus Program, Department of History, Charles University, Prague, October 2003.

BOOK REVIEWS in American Historical Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Austrian Studies, Bohemia, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Central European History, East Central Europe, German Studies Review, HABSBURG (H-Net), Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of Modern History, Kosmas, Slavic and East European Journal, Slavic Review, Slavonic and East European Review.

RECENTLY TAUGHT COURSES:
Gender & Sexuality in History 
Habsburg Monarchy 
World War II
Graduate Seminars:
Reading Seminar: World War I--Collective Memory and Gender
Reading Seminar: Modern France--Cultural Studies

GRADUATE TRAINING:
Dissertations:
Director,
Pontus Hiort, "Reconciling Local, Regional, and Religious Loyalties: South German Catholics and the Formation of National Identity 1864-1914" (PhD defense, February 2007).
External  Examiner,
David Gerlach, "For Nation and Gain: Economy, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Czech Borderlands," Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (PhD defense, February 2007).
Traci Colston Heitschmidt, "The Quest for Uranium: Environmental and Political Effects of Soviet Mining Policy in East Germany, 1945-1967," Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara (PhD deposited September 2003).
Michael Thurman: "The Nature of Nations: The Dutch Challenge of Modernization Accounts of National Identity," Department of Political Science, Boston University (PhD defense, November  2000).

RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Journals:
Nationalities Papers,
Editor, August 1998-December 2002.
Associate Editor, July 1996-September 1998.
Book-Review Editor, August 1995-August 1998.

Editorial Boards:
The Habsburg List, H-Net, November 1997- Present,
Nationalities Papers, 2003-2006.
Association for the Study of Nationalities Book Series (Cambridge University Press),  November 1996-November 1999.

Professional Advisory Boards:
At-large member, Executive Committee, Conference Group for Central European History, 2006-2009.
Executive Committee, Association for the Study of Nationalities, August 1997-December 2002.
Officer-at-large, Czechoslovak History Conference, Autumn 1994-Spring 1998.

Peer Review:
American Historical Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d'Histoire, Central European History, The Historian, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Modern History, Nationalities Papers, Slavic Review;
Harvard University Press, Hoover Institution Press, Louisiana State University Press, Oxford University Press, Purdue University Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Pittsburgh Press.

Prize Committees:
Member, Conference Group for Central European History, Hans Rosenberg Book Prize Committee, 2002.
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Student Prize, 2001-2003.
Chair, Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for the best dissertation on Austrian culture or society, Summer 1999.
Chair, Stanley Pech Prize Committee of the Czechoslovak History Conference, Autumn 1995.

University Committees:
Northern Illinois University-
Elected Member, College Curriculum Committee, 2000-2003.
Elected Member, College Council, 1998-2000.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
American Historical Association.
Czechoslovak Studies Association.
Society for Austrian and Habsburg History.

June 30, 2006