Nations, Borders, Identities

Researchers of the British Project Group
	Dr. Leighton S. James	(Project on War Experiences in Austria and Germany)
	Dr. Catriona Kennedy	(Project on War Experiences in Great Britain and Ireland)
	Dr. Marie-Cécile Thoral	(Project on War Experiences in France)
Researchers of the German Project Group
	PD Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz	(Project on War Memories in Russia and Poland)
	Dr. Kirstin Buchinger-Schäfer	(Project on War Memories in France)
	Wolfgang Koller, M.A.	(Project on War Memories in European Feature Films)
	Lars Peters, M.A.	(Project on War Memories in Great Britain and Ireland)
	Maria Schultz, M.A.	(Project on War Memories in Austria and Germany)

is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Swansea. He teaches Modern and Central European history, the history of Napoleonic Wars, Military history, and Labour history. He previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Swansea before taking up a post-doctoral post at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, where he was part of the project group, Nations, Borders and Identities: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experience, funded by the Art and Humanities Council from 2005 to 2008. He recently finished a monograph on Austrian and German war experiences of the Napoleonic Wars and started to work on a new research project on the experience of the Seven Years War in Europe and the American colonies.

▪ The Politics of Identity and Civil Society: The Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008)

▪ ‘”The Whole Man”: Austrian Officers' Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

▪ ‘Travel Writing and Encounters with National ‘Others’ during the Napoleonic Wars’, History Compass, 7 (June, 2009): 1246-1258 (DOI 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00620.x)

▪ ‘Discourses of Labor: The Cases of William Abraham and Gerhard Stötzel, 1890-1914’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 12 (2006): 101-120

▪ (with Ray Markey) ‘Class and Labor: The British Labour Party and the Australian Labor Party Compared’, Labour History, 90 (2006): 23-42

▪ ‘Trade Union Development in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1914’, in Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies, ed. Stefan Berger, Andy Croll and Norman Laporte (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), 253-266

▪ ‘War and Industry: A Study of the Industrial Relations of the Mining Regions of South Wales and the Ruhr during the Great War, 1914-1918’, Labour History Review, 68 (2003), 195-215

is a lecturer in the History Department and member of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. She works on modern British and Irish history with particular interests in the cultural history of war, politics, gender and national identity. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York on the project, Nations, Borders and Identities: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experience, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and worked on British and Irish war experiences of the Napoleonic Wars. Recently she finished the monograph Writing War: Britain and Ireland, 1793-1815, which will be published with Palgrave Macmillan. Her doctoral research explored the relationship between gender, politics and Irish national identity during and after the revolutionary upheaval of the 1790s. She is currently revising her dissertation for publication as a monograph, provisionally titled Engendering Ireland: Women, Politics and Nation, 1789-1848.

▪ Writing War: Britain and Ireland, 1793-1815 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

▪ ‘The War at Home: British Civilian Diaries, 1793-1815’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

▪ ‘John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the British Army, 1793-1815’, in Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Comparison, 1775-1820, ed. Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)

▪ ‘From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo’, in Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars, 1790-1820, ed. Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 137-156

▪ ‘“A Gallant Nation”: Chivalric Masculinity and Irish Nationalism in the 1790s’, in Public Men: Political Masculinities in Modern Britain, ed. Matthew McCormack (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

▪ ‘“Womanish Epistles?”: Martha McTier, Female Epistolarity and Late Eighteenth-century Irish Radicalism’, Women’s History Review, 13:4 (2004) (awarded the Clare Evans’ essay prize for women’s and gender history): 649-667

is Senior Lecturer in modern European History at the University of Sheffield Hallam. She teaches Modern French and European History. She completed her PhD on ‘Local Government in a French Department from the Consulate to the July Monarchy: The Case of the Isère‘ in 2004 at the University of Grenoble (France). After having been a temporary lecturer in the department of History of the University of Grenoble from 2004 to 2006, she took up the position of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York from 2006 to 2008. Her research on French war experiences of the Napoleonic Wars was part of the project Nations, Borders and Identities: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experience funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She completed her book on the experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians and its link with the emergence of total war, and she has now begun a new research on colonial warfare and social, cultural and economic interactions between France and Algeria in the 19th century.

▪ From Valmy to Waterloo: France at war, 1792-1815 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010)

▪ L’émergence du pouvoir local: le département de l’Isère face à la centralisation napoléonienne (1800-1837) (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010)

▪ ‘The Egyptian campaign (1798-1801) and French Nineteenth Century Orientalism: perception and memory in autobiographical accounts and novels’, in Memories of War: Transmitting the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, ed. Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Etienne François (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (forthcoming)

▪ ‘Renforcement de la culture politique blanche dans les armées royalistes contre-révolutionnaires’, in Les cultures politiques blanches dans l’Europe méditerranéenne (France, Italie, Espagne), XIX°-XX° siècles, ed. Bruno Dumons and Hilaire Multon (Presses de l’Ecole Française de Rome, 2011) (forthcoming)

▪ ‘The Everyday Life of War: Diaries and Carnets de Route of French Soldiers as a Material for the Elaboration of a Memory of War’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

▪ ‘Administrer la frontière : les fonctionnaires de l’Isère et la frontière franco-italienne de la Restauration à la Monarchie de Juillet’, Histoire, Economie et Société, (March 2007)

▪ Naissance d’une classe sociale, les fonctionnaires de bureau, du Consulat à la Monarchie de Juillet. Le cas de l’Isère’, Revue d’Histoire du XIX° siècle, 32 (July 2006)

▪ ‘L’administration locale en temps de crise: l’administration locale en Isère en 1814-1815’, Annales historiques de la révolution française, nro. 1 (2005): 117-135

▪ ‘The Limits of Napoleonic Centralisation: Notables and Local Government in the Department of the Isère from the Consulate to the Beginning of the July Monarchy’, French History 19:4 (2005): 463-481

▪ ‘‘L’Empire au village: les fonctionnaires dans les villages de l’Isère sous le Consulat et l’Empire, entre l’Etat et le village’, Revue de l’Institut Napoléon, 188:1 (2004): 23-44

is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for French Studies at the Free University of Berlin and works on a research project entitled Nations, Borders, Identities: The French Memories of the Napoleonic Wars, which was part of the project group Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memory, funded by the German Research Foundation. She works on her Habilitation entitled, ‘Napoleomanie?’ Eine transfergeschichtliche Untersuchung intermedialer Napoleonrezeption (Frankreich und Europa 1815 – 1945). From 1999 to 2001 she was a Research Fellow at the History Department of the Free University of Berlin and worked for the project Deutsche Erinnerungsorte. Her main research fields are the Modern French and German history, the history of mentalities and cultural history, military history, the history of nation, nationalism, and national movements in Europe, and he history of French memories of the Napoleonic Wars in the 19th and 20th centuries.

▪ (ed. with) Claire Gantet and Jakob Vogel, Europäische Erinnerungsräume: Zirkulationen zwischen Frankreich, Deutschland und Europa (Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2008)

▪ Hitlers erster Feldmarschall Werner von Blomberg: Eine Biographie (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2006)

▪ ‘Text and Image: The Napoleonic Wars in French Historical Novels and their Illustrations’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

▪ ‘Chapeau! Napoleons Hut – Ein europäisches Imago Agens’, in Europäische Erinnerungsräume. Zirkulationen zwischen Frankreich, Deutschland und Europa, ed. Kirstin Buchinger, Claire Gantet and Jakob Vogel (Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2008), 296-321

▪ ‘Kriegsgefangene und Gefangenenaustausch als europäisches Transferphänomen (1750-1800)’, in Instrumente des Friedens: Vielfalt und Formen von Friedensverträgen im vormodernen Europa, ed. Heinz Duchardt and Martin Peters, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Beiheft Online 3 (Mainz, 2008), 94-108

▪ ‘Die Völkerschlacht’, in Deutsche Erinnerungsorte, ed. Etienne François and Hagen Schulze vol. 2, (Munich: Beck, 2001), 187-201

is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for French Studies at the Free University of Berlin. He studied History, Political Science, and Spanish and Latin American Literature in Regensburg, Madrid and Berlin between 1996 and 2003. He was part of the production team of the 2004 exhibition Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918. Ereignis und Erinnerung of the German Historical Museum in Berlin. His main fields of study have been Classical Mexican Cinema, German Cinema during National Socialism and historical picturisations. His dissertation project is titled Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Feature Films (1895-1945) and was part of the project Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memory, funded by the German Research Foundation.

▪ ‘Heroic Times: Gendered Images of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars in German Feature Films of the Interwar Period’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

is Debuty Director of the German Historical Institute Warszawa. Until 2009 she was Lecturer at the Humboldt University Berlin. Her main fields of research are Modern and Contemporary History, European History, especially Baltic, Polish, and Russian history, cultural and social history as well as Jewish history. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Berlin School for European Comparative History at the Free University of Berlin in the project Nations, Borders and Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memory funded by the German Research Foundation and works on the Polish and Russian memories of this wars.

▪ Zwischen Grenze und Ausgrenzung. Jüdische Perspektiven einer preußischen Peripherie 1812-1942 (Berlin: Metropol-Verlag, forthcoming)

▪ Die unbekannten Nachbarn. Minderheiten in Osteuropa (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2008)

▪ Wolfskinder: Grenzgänger an der Memel (Berlin: Basis-Druck 1996, 4. Auflage 2003)

▪ Memellandbuch: Fünf Jahrzehnte Nachkriegsgeschichte (Berlin, Basis Druck, 2002)

▪ Ostpreußens Schicksalsjahre 1944 -1948 (Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 2000, 2. Auflage 2001)

▪ ‘'"...so that people talk about Poland out loud again in the world today!" Polish Volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars', in War Volunteering in Modern Times, ed. Christine Krüger and Sonja Levsen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)

▪ ‘Female Heroism: Gender Images in Russian Memoirs and Historical Novels of the “Patriotic War” of 1812’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for French Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Between 2005 and 2008 his research project Nations, Borders, Identities: The Irish and British Memories of the Napoleonic Wars, which was part ofthe project group Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memory, was funded by the German Research Foundation. His main fields of research are Modern British and Irish History, Western European History, Gender History, Cultural and Military History. Since 2008 he works as officer of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

▪ ‘Warrior Sailors and Heroic Boys: The Narrative Imagining of Masculinities in Popular British Historical Novels’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for French Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Her research project on Nations, Borders, Identities: The Memories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Germany and Austria (1815-1945) was funded from 2005 to 2008 by the German Research Foundation as a part of the German project group Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memory. Her research interests on German and Austrian History (18th-20th century) include political culture, national identities, gender and the experiences and memory of war.

▪ Wolfgang Eric Wagner unter Mitarbeit von Maria Schultz u.a., Die Bibliothek der Historischen Gesellschaft von Johann Gustav Droysen 1860-1884. Eine Büchersammlung in der Zweigbibliothek Geschichte der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008)

▪ ‘Archetypes from the Past: Gender Images in German and Austrian Historical Novels on the Napoleonic Wars’, in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. Alan Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (forthcoming)

▪ ‘“Morgen wieder lustik!” Die Erinnerungen an Jérôme Bonaparte und das Königreich Westphalen in Deutschland (1813-1945)’, in König Lustik!? Jérôme Bonaparte und der Modellstaat Königreich Westphalen, Ausstellungskatalog Museumslandschaft Hessen (Kassel: Hirmer, 2008), 169-175

▪ ‘Zwischen Kultur und Politik: Die Hauptversammlungen der Goethe-Gesellschaft in den Jahren 1954 bis 1960 als Orte der deutsch-deutschen Auseinandersetzungen’, in Goethe in Gesellschaft: Zur Geschichte einer literarischen Vereinigung vom Kaiserreich bis zum geteilten Deutschland, ed. Jochen Golz (Cologne: Böhlau, 2005), 157-181