Modern European History

The Modern Europe faculty offers a variety of strengths in national fields and interdisciplinary inquiry. European history faculty look beyond national borders to consider regional and Europe-wide historical processes, as well as Europe 's role in global transformations. Our graduate programs equip students to integrate solid historical grounding with openness to new approaches.

Recasting Britain , Ireland and Europe within the scope of imperial processes, British historian Laura Tabili emphasizes the interaction of gender, class, and race in state formation. David Ortiz, Jr. works on the political, social, and cultural discourse of turn-of-the-century Spain and teaches courses on European liberalism, anarchism, comparative revolutions, and sexuality. Douglas Weiner integrates Russian and Soviet intellectual history with global concerns about the environment and modernization. Susan Crane 's work on modern Germany focuses on thematic issues of collective memory, historical consciousness and photographs as historical sources. Looking across the Atlantic, Miranda Spieler links modern French history with its colonial empire through study of French Guiana , with a particular interest in slavery and emancipation. An emphasis on eastern Europe and the Balkans is provided by Frederick Kellogg , who specializes in Romania , as well as southeastern European and Russian nationalism.

The field is supported by faculty in several affiliated areas, including World and Comparative History , Early Modern Europe , Comparative Women's and Gender History , and Middle Eastern Histories . Historians of the Middle East and North Africa, Linda Darling and Julia Clancy-Smith provide critical support for conceptualizing Europe in relation to the broader Mediterranean world.

The University of Arizona library collections are particularly strong in Germany , eastern Europe and pre-1917 Russia , as well as Women's History. Students are normally expected to master at least one appropriate European language by the end of their MA program, and to qualify in a second early in their PhD candidacy.