Nancy M. Wingfield
Professor
Fields of Study: Modern Europe (Habsburg Central Europe), Gender, Sexuality and Women, Memory and Commemoration, Nationalism and Identity
E-mail: nmw@niu.edu
Phone: 815-753-6805
Office: Zulauf 707
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Education: Ph.D., Columbia University, 1987
Current Research: I am writing a book on the regulation of prostitution in the Bohemian Lands from 1880 to 1918.
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.
- Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe. Editor. Series of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota. New York: Berghahn Publishers, November 2003. Paperback edition, 2004.
- Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present. Co-editor with Maria Bucur. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2001.
Recent Articles in Refereed Journals and Book Chapters
- "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).
- "Echoes of the Riehl Trial in Fin-de-Siècle Cisleithania," Austrian History Yearbook 38 (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
- "The Battle of Zborov and the Politics of Commemoration in Czechoslovakia," East European Politics and Societies 17/4 (Winter 2003): 654-681.
- "The Politics of Memory: Constructing National Identity in the Czech Lands during the Postwar Period," East European Politics and Societies 14/2 (Spring 2000): 246-67.
Teaching Interests: I teach geographic courses on East-Central European and Habsburg History as well as a topical course on the History of Gender and Sexuality.
Courses Taught:
- HIST 112 Western Civilization Since 1815
- HIST 321 Revolutionary Movements Since 1789
- 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, World War I
- Graduate Research Seminar on Modern Europe
Interdisciplinary Affiliations:
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program
