Pieter M. Judson (born 1956,

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) is a professor of history.

Education and academic interests

Pieter Judson attended

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and graduated in 1978. He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1987. He has taught

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between 1993 and 2014 and is currently a professor of 19th and 20th century history at the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality, established by its founding member states to contribu ...

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. For more than ten years, he served as an editor of the '' Austrian History Yearbook'' and the President of the Central European History Society of North America. His research interests include modern European History, nationalist conflicts, revolutionary and counter revolutionary social movements, and the history of sexuality. His works on the

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and

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are published in more than ten languages.

Awards

He is a 2010 recipient of the

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 ...

and received two Fulbright awards to Vienna, as a student and scholar. In Spring 2011, Pieter Judson was the recipient of Nina Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize in History at the

American Academy in Berlin The American Academy in Berlin is a private, independent, nonpartisan research and cultural institution in Berlin dedicated to sustaining and enhancing the long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and German ...

Publications

*''Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire 1848—1914'' (1996, winner of the

Herbert Baxter Adams prize The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is an annual book prize of the American Historical Association. It is awarded for "a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history", and is named in honor of Herbert Baxter Adams, who ...

of the American Historical Association and the Austrian Cultural Institute's Prize for best book both of 1997) *''Wien Brennt. Die Revolution 1848 und ihre liberale Erbe'' (1998) *''Constructing nationalities in East Central Europe.'' New York; Oxford: Berghahn, 2005. *''Guardians of the nation: activists on the language frontiers of imperial Austria.'' Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. * ''The Habsburg Empire. A New History''. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts)/London 2016, *''Habsburg: Geschichte eines Imperiums: 1740 - 1918.'' München: C.H. Beck, 2017. *“Nationalism in the Era of the Nation State” in Helmut W. Smith, ed., ''The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History,'' Oxford University Press, 2011. *“Nationalism and Indifference” in ''Habsburg Neu Denken. Vielfalt und Ambivalenz in Zentraleuropa. 30 Kulturwissenschatliche Stichworte''.Vienna: Böhlau, 2016.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Judson, Pieter 1956 births Living people Swarthmore College faculty Swarthmore College alumni 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 20th-century Dutch historians Writers from Utrecht (city) American male non-fiction writers