Nancy M. Wingfield

Professor

Fields of Study: Modern Europe (Habsburg Central Europe), Gender and Sexuality, Memory and Commemoration

E-mail: nmw@niu.edu
Phone: 815-753-6805
Office: Zulauf 707

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University, 1987

Current Research: I am writing a book on the regulation of prostitution in late imperial Austria.  My research has received support from Fulbright-Hays, IIE Fulbright , and International Research and Exchanges (IREX).

Major/Recent Publications:

Recent Books

• Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.
• Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II, 4th ed.  Co-author with Joseph Rothschild.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  Third edition, 1999.
• Gender and World War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Co-editor with Maria Bucur. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006; simultaneous hardbound and paperback editions.

Recent Articles in Refereed Journals and Book Chapters

• "Gender and the Construction of Wartime Heroism in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union," with Lisa Kirschenbaum, for a special issue of European History Quarterly 39/3 (2009), "The Politics of Memory in Modern Europe: Comparative Perspectives," ed. by Robert Gerwarth and Lucy Riall.
• "Echoes of the Riehl Trial in Fin-de-Siècle Cisleithania," Austrian History Yearbook 38 (2007).
• "Emperor Joseph II in the Austrian Imagination to 1914" in The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Celebrations and the Dynamics of State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, Laurence Cole and Daniel Unowsky, eds. (New York: Berghahn Books:  2007).
• "The Sacred and the Profane: Religion and Nationalism in the Bohemian Crownlands, 1880-1920," with Cynthia J. Paces, in Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe, Pieter Judson and Marsha Rozenblit, eds. Austrian History, Culture & Society Series (New York: Berghahn Books, 2004), 107-25.

Teaching Interests: I teach geographic courses on Habsburg Central Europe as well as topical courses on the history of gender and sexuality.

Courses Taught:

• HIST 402 Gender and Sexuality in History
• HIST 413 Family, Sexuality, and Society Since 1400
• HIST 424 Habsburg Monarchy, 1815-1918
• HIST 425 World War II
• HIST 426 East Central Europe, 1914-Present
• Graduate Reading Seminars on Cultural Studies/Gender, Gender and Collective Memory, Prostitution, World War I
• Graduate Research Seminar on Modern Europe

Interdisciplinary Affiliations:
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program