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Emily Joan Greble, married Balić, is a historian of the
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and
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and a specialist on the history of Muslims in Europe. She is currently chair of the Department of History and Professor of History and of German, Russian, and East European Studies at
Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private university, private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provide ...
. She was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
in 2021.


Early life and education

Greble received her BA degree in 1999 at the
College of William and Mary The College of William & Mary (abbreviated as W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest instit ...
. From here she moved to
Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
, where she received her MA in 2004, and eventually her
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in 2007.


Career and academic interests

Greble is a historian of the
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and
Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the Europe, European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic connotations. Its eastern boundary is marked by the Ural Mountain ...
and a specialist on the history of Muslims in Europe and civil conflicts. She is currently chair of the Department of History Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2017, Greble was assistant professor of History at the
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. Greble's first book, ''Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe'' (Cornell University Press, 2011) examines the history of
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under
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Occupation during the
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. Her second book, ''Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe'' challenges the common belief that
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are outsiders or foreigners to
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whose recent arrival creates new cultural and political challenges. Instead, Greble shows that Muslims were central participants in the intricate processes of European nation-building and that the development of norms around European equality,
secularism Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. It is most commonly thought of as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state and may be broadened ...
, and law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were profoundly affected by the theoretical and practical confrontations with Muslims within European territory and states. ''Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe'' has been both praised and criticized for treating Muslims as an integral part of European history. The book was selected as one of the ''
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"Best Summer Books of 2022" for the category history. It was awarded the 2022 Harriman Rothschild Book Prize by the
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and the 2002
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"in recognition of outstanding historical writing in European international history since 1895" from the American Historical Association.


Fellowships

Greble’s work has been supported by numerous fellowships and grants, including
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, Fulbright-Hays, ACLS, the Mellon Foundation, IREX, and the
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. She has held residential fellowships at the Remarque Institute at
New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
, the
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, part of the Kennedy School of Government at
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, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in
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She was the William S. Vaughn Fellow at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt in 2019-2020. In 2021, she was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
.


Works


Awards

For her second book, Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe, Oxford, 2021, which was translated into Bosnian and
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, Greble was awarded the Rothschild Harriman Book Prize, the
George Louis Beer Prize The AHA Prize in European International History, formerly named the George Louis Beer Prize, is an award given by the American Historical Association for the best book in European international history from 1895 to the present written by a United S ...
, the Laura Shannon Prize silver medal, an honorable mention from the Southern Conference for Slavic Studies, and the inaugural Fikret Karčić Book Prize, was named a best book in History by the Financial Times for 2022.


See also

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Dubravko Lovrenović Dubravko Lovrenović (30 August 1956 – 17 January 2017) was a Bosnian and Herzegovinian medievalist, author and essayist, who worked at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo, Department of History, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herz ...
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Ivo Banac Ivo Banac (; 1 March 1947 – 30 June 2020) was a Croatian-American historian, a professor of European history at Yale University and a politician of the former Liberal Party in Croatia, known as the Great Bard of Croatian historiography. , Bana ...
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Florin Curta Biography Curta works in the field of Balkans history and is a professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Curta's first book, '' The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the L ...
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Tibor Živković Tibor Živković ( sr-cyr, Тибор Живковић; 11 March 1966 – 26 March 2013) was a Serbian historian and Byzantinist who specialised in the period of the Early Middle Ages. Biography Živković was born in Mostar, and studied history ...


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Emily Greble
at Google Scholar American women historians Stanford University alumni Vanderbilt University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers Historians of Islam Historians of the Balkans Historians of Bosnia and Herzegovina City College of New York faculty {{US-historian-stub