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GREGOR THUM University of Pittsburgh Department of History 3702 Wesley W GREGOR THUM University of Pittsburgh Department of History 3702 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE ( Mai 2017 ) EMPLOYMENT: Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, 2014–present Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, 2012–2014 DAAD Visiting Associate Professor, University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, 2010–2011 Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, School of History, Germany, 2008–2010 DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History, 2003–2008 Research fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, 2001–2002 (five months) Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Europa-Universität Viadrina, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 1995–2001 EDUCATION: Ph.D., summa cum laude, History, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 2002 Doctoral thesis: „Die fremde Stadt. Breslau nach dem Bevölkerungsaustausch“ [An alien place. Wrocław after the population exchange]; advisors: Karl Schlögel and Klaus Zernack M.A., History and Slavic Languages, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 1995 M.A. thesis: “Lev P. Karsavin und die Russische Revolution” [Lev P. Karsavin and the Russian Revolution]; advisors: Hans-Joachim Torke and Klaus Zernack Languages: German (native), English (professional fluency), Polish (reading and conversation competence), Russian (reading and conversation competence), Ukrainian (reading competence); Italian (basic), Latin (basic). Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 2 AWARDS: “Ambassador of Wrocław,” honorary title awarded by the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza (2007) Annual book prize, Polish monthly Odra (2006) Georg Dehio Book Prize (2004) VBKI European Special Prize for best dissertation on a European topic defended at one of the universities of Berlin and Brandenburg (2004) Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945 ranked as the “most innovative/provocative history book of the year,” history journal Damals (2004) Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945 listed among the ten best non-fiction books by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Buchjournal and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (2003 and 2004). Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945 listed by the weekly DIE ZEIT among five especially recommended non-fiction books (2003) GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Faculty Research Grant, European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburg (2014) Course Development Grant, European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh (2013) Research fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany (2008–2010) Translation Award "Geisteswissenschaften International," an initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Foreign Office, and the German Booksellers Association (2008) On behalf of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam, development of the grant proposal “Europe in the Eastern Bloc. Changing Perceptions and Spaces of Communication.” The project was awarded a three-year grant from the Volkswagen Foundation (2004) RESEARCH INTERESTS: • Modern Central European history with a specialization on Germany, Poland, and their entangled histories • Forced migrations and their long-term consequences • Empire, nationalism, and ethnic conflict • European integration and identity building • The symbolic meaning of architecture and urban planning Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 3 CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT: “Mastering the East. The German “Frontier” from 1800 to the Present”: A book in progress on the history of the German border in the east. This book will shed shed light on the failing projects of German empire building and its impact on the relations between German- and non-German-speaking societies of Central and Eastern Europe (under advance contract with Princeton University Press). PUBLICATIONS: Books: Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945, Berlin: Siedler, 2003 Paperback edition: Die fremde Stadt. Breslau nach 1945. München: Pantheon 2006 Translations: Obce miasto. Wrocław 1945 i potem. Wrocław: Via Nova 2006 Uprooted. How Breslau Became Wrocław During the Century of Expulsions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011 Reviews: American Historical Review (2012), Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales (2005), Badische Zeitung (2003), Berliner Zeitung (2003), Bohemia (2004), Borussia (2004), Choice (2012), Continuity and Change (2013), Damals (2004), Canadian Journal of History (2012), Central European History (2012), European History Quarterly (2013), European Review of History (2012), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2003), Freiburger Universitätsblätter (2005), Gazeta Wyborcza (2007), German History (2012), Historische Zeitschrift (2004), Das Historisch-Politische Buch (2005), H- Net (2006), H-Net Habsburg (2012), H-Soz-Kult (2003 and 2005), Jahrbuch für deutsche und osteuropäische Volkskunde (2004), Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2009), Journal of Contemporary History (2013), Journal of Modern History (2013), Junge Welt (2003), Nationalities Papers (2013), Neue Politische Literatur (2014), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2003), Nordost-Archiv (2007), Odra (2007), Osteuropa (2004), The Polish Review (2013), Przegląd Polityczny (2004), Przegląd Zachodni (2005), Rocznik Wrocławski (2004), Schlesien heute (2005), The Sarmatian Review (2008), Sehepunkte (2004), Slavic Review (2006), rbi-aktuell (2004), Süddeutsche Zeitung (2003), Sobótka (2005), Südwestrundfunk (2003), Der Tagesspiegel (2004), Urban History (2012), Vingtième Siecle (2012), Die Welt (2003), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (2003), DIE ZEIT (2003), Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik (2004), Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (2004) Edited Books: Stille Revolutionen: Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989 [Silent Revolutions: The Reshaping of the World since 1989], together with Katharina Kucher and Sören Urbansky. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2013 Reviews: H-Soz-Kult (2013), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2013), Wiener Zeitung (2013) Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 4 Helpless Imperialists: Imperial Failure, Fear, and Radicalization, together with Maurus Reinkowski. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013 Reviews: American Historical Review (2014), H-Soz-Kult (2014) Traumland Osten: Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen Europa im 20. Jahrhundert [Dreamland East: German Images of Eastern Europe in the 20th century], Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006 Reviews: Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales (2009), Bohemia (2006/07), H-Soz-Kult (2007), Kwartalnik Historyczny (2008), Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2010), Neue Politische Literatur (2007), Südostfoschungen (2008), Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (2007) Chronik russischen Lebens in Deutschland, 1918–1941 [Chronicle of Russian Life in Germany], co- edited with Karl Schlögel, Katharina Kucher, and Bernhard Suchy, Berlin: Akademie, 1998 Journal articles and book chapters (* peer-reviewed): "Die kulturelle Leere des Ostens. Legitimierung preußisch-deutscher Herrschaft im 19. Jahrhundert." In Umkämpfte Räume: Raumbilder, Ordnungswille, und Gewaltmobilisierung, edited by Ulrike Jureit, 263- 285. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016. "Die Ostgrenze des Reiches und ihr Verschwinden in Preußen." In Europa Vertikal. Zur Ost-West- Gliederung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Rita Aldenhoff-Hübinger, Catherine Gousseff and Thomas Serrier, 63-83. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016. "Das Ende der Utopien und die Vereinigung Europas," In Stille Revolutionen. Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989, edited by Katharina Kucher, Sören Urbansky and Gregor Thum, 21–32. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2013. * “Die polnischen Legionen in Saint-Domingue. Politik, Literatur, und die Verflüchtigung des historischen Geschehens,” In Heinrich von Kleists Novelle "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo". Literatur und Politik im globalen Kontext um 1800, edited by Reinhard Blänkner, 161–85. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013. * “Megalomania and Angst. The Nineteenth-Century Mythicization of Germany’s Eastern Borderlands,” In Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands, edited by Omer Bartov and Eric Weitz, 42–60. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. * “Imperialists in Panic: The Evocation of Empire at Germany’s Eastern Frontier around 1900,” In Helpless Imperialists. Imperial Failure, Fear, and Radicalization, edited by Maurus Reinkowski and Gregor Thum, 137–62, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. * "'We Are Prussia Today.' Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State." In Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations. In Search of a Livable Past, edited by Kristin Kopp and Joanna Niżyńska, 259–79. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. “Preußen - das sind wir. Zur Wiederentdeckung der preußischen Kulturlandschaft in Deutschland und Polen”, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 59/3 (2010), 301–22. Curriculum Vitae – Gregor Thum 5 “Eine deutsche Frontier? Die deutsch-polnische Grenze und die Ideen von 1848,” In Grenze – Granica. Die deutsch-polnische Grenze im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Christian Pletzing and Karoline Gil, 19–38. München: Meidenbauer, 2010. * “Wrocław’s Search for a New Historical Narrative: From Polonocentrism to Postmodernism,” In Cities after the Fall of Communism. Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity, edited by John Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis and Blair Ruble, 75–101. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 “Ex oriente lux - ex oriente furor. Einführung,” In Traumland Osten. Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen Europa im 20. Jahrhundert,
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