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Brotherlands: Nazis versus Fascists across Austria & Germany, 1918-1955
Publications
Peer Reviewed
2025 “Austria & Japan as Cultural Nations? Photography & Art in the Occupied Axis Powers, 1945-1955,” Co-Authored Chapter in Austrian Art, Culture, and Literature of the 20th/21st Century (Istanbul: Istanbul University Press, 2025), Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in German Philology, Co-Author: Dr. Emily E. Cole. Forthcoming.
2025 “From Bavaria to the Brenner: Austria as a Fascist Borderland, 1933-1936,” German Studies Review 48, no. 2 (2025): Forthcoming.
2024 “Making Austria German Again: Austrofascist ‘Home Guards’ Against Nazi ‘Austrian Legionaries,’ 1933-1934,” Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 13, no. 1 (2024): 99-121.
2023 “Borderland Brothers: Austrofascist Competition & Cooperation with National Socialists, 1936-1938,” Journal of Austrian Studies 56, no. 1 (2023): 1-24.
Max Kade Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Austrian Studies in 2023. Awarded by the Austrian Studies Association, the Journal of Austrian Studies, & the Max-Kade Foundation
2019 “Casualties of War? Refining the Civilian-Military Dichotomy in World War I,” Madison Historical Review 16, Article 5 (2019): 1-36.
2017 “Racist Limitations on Violence: The Nazi Occupation of Denmark,” Essays in History 50 (2017): 1-18.
Non-Peer Reviewed
2023 “Pro-Fascist, Anti-Nazi: Austrian Catholics weaponized religion against Hitler but for fascism,” Commonweal: Religion, Politics, Culture, 10 October.
2014 “Historical Alternatives in the First World War: German Conceptualization, Creation, and Loss of its Central Europe,” The James Blair Historical Review 5, 1 (2014): 73-90.
Book Reviews
2025 Review of Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914, by Ambika Natarajan. German Studies Review (Forthcoming).
2024 Review of Interwar Salzburg: Austrian Culture Beyond Vienna, ed. by Robert Dassanowsky and Katherine Arens. Journal of Austrian Studies (Forthcoming).
2024 Review of Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania by Reginald Elias Kirey. German Studies Review 47, no. 2 (May 2024): 345-347.
2024 Review of Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I by Paul Miller-Melamed. Journal of Austrian Studies 57, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 111-113.
2023 Review of Europeans and Africans: Mutual Discoveries and First Encounters by Michał Tymowski. World History Bulletin 84, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2023): 80-81.
2023 Review of Gedächtnisort der Republik: Das Österreichische Heldendenkmal im Äußeren Burgtor der Wiener Hofburg: Geschichte – Kontroversen – Perspektiven. Herausgegeben von Heidemarie Uhl, Richard Hufschmied, & Dieter A. Binder. Austrian History Yearbook 54 (2023): 201-202.
2023 Review of The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy by Jonathan Singerton. Journal of Austrian Studies 56, no. 2 (2023): 111-113.
Conferences & Presentations
2024 “Armaments after Armistice: Right-Wing Paramilitary Agents in the Austro-Bavarian Borderland, 1918-1928,” German Studies Association, 48th Annual Conference, Atlanta, September 27-29.
2024 “Fighting Fire with Fire: Austrofascist Resistance to Nazism, 1933-1938,” 2023-2024 Lecture Series on Resistance, Boston College History Department, March 22.
2024 Discussion Moderator/Facilitator, “Dialogue & Action: War, Civilians, International Law,” Pertaining to Ongoing War in Gaza, Provosts’ Series on Dialogue, Live Stream Panels across Nine Universities in Greater Boston Area, March 13.
2023 Panel Commentator, “Culture, Consumption and Catholicism in Austrian History and Diplomacy,” German Studies Association, 47th Annual Conference, Montréal, October 6-8.
2023 “The Nazi March to War: ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Eastern Marches in Imperial Imaginaries, 1938–1945,” German Studies Association, 47th Annual Conference, Montréal, October 6-8.
2023 “Repeating the ‘July Crisis’ of 1914? An Austrian Assassination & Border Mobilizations Twenty Years Later,” Freie Universität & German Studies Association, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Berlin, July 5-6.
2023 “What’s in a Nazi Name? Anschluss, Altreich, & Austria, 1938-1945,” Lafayette College, Austrian Studies Association Meeting, Easton PA, April 14-16.
2023 “Österreich or Ostmark? Nazi Nomenclature After Anschluss, 1938-1941.” University of Alabama, 15th Southeast German Studies Consortium Workshop, Tuscaloosa, February 23-24.
2022 “‘Wir brauchen Waffen von Bayern:’ Arming Activists Across the Austro-Bavarian Borderland, 1918-1928.” Freie Universität & German Studies Association, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Berlin, July 6-7.
2022 “‘One of the Queerest Wars:’ Fascist Infiltration of Parliament & Fascist Infighting Across the Austro-Bavarian Border, 1928-1934.” Austrian Studies Association Meeting, New Orleans, April 12-14.
2022 “From Bavaria to the Brenner: The Austrofascist Regime as a Fascist Borderland, 1934-1936.” Joshua B. Stein Works in Progress Lecture Series, Roger Williams University, Bristol, April 7.
2022 “Across the Alps: Transborder Smuggling & Paramilitary Formation, 1918-1928.” Appalachian State University, 14th Southeast German Studies Consortium Workshop, Virtual, March 24-25.
2021 “Two Brudervölker, Two Bruderreiche, Two Führer: Austrofascist Engagement with Nazism, 1936-1938.” Freie Universität & German Studies Association, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Virtual, June 30-July 2.
2021 “An Intra-National Borderland: Regional Conflicts & Affinities Across the Austro-Bavarian Border, 1918-1955.” German Historical Institute, 26th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Virtual, June 16-19.
2021 “‘One of the Queerest Wars:’ Fascist Infiltration of Parliament & Fascist Fighting Across the Austro-Bavarian Border, 1929-1934.” Northeastern University, 13th Annual Graduate History Conference, Virtual, May 15.
2020 “Zwei Brudervölker & Zwei Vaterländer: Austrofascist Resistance to Nazism.” German Studies Association, 44th Annual Conference, Virtual, October 4.
2016 “Casualties of War? Refining the Civilian-Combatant Dichotomy in World War I,” 12th Annual Graduate History Symposium, University of Toronto.
2015 “One Volk, One Reich, Many Fredericks: The Portrayal of Frederick II in the Third Reich,” Graduate Student History Conference, North Carolina State University.
2015 “One Volk, One Reich, Many Fredericks: The Portrayal of Frederick II in the Third Reich,” New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University.
2014 “One Volk, One Reich, Many Fredericks: The Portrayal of Frederick II in the Third Reich,” Undergraduate Research Symposium, The Center for Undergraduate Excellence, University of Virginia.
