Pieter Judson Explained

Pieter M. Judson (born 1956, Utrecht) is an American professor of history.

Education and academic interests

Pieter Judson attended Swarthmore College and graduated in 1978.^[1] He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1987. He has taught history at Swarthmore College between 1993 and 2014 and is currently a professor of 19th and 20th century history at the European University Institute in Florence.^[2] For more than ten years, he served as an editor of the Austrian History Yearbook and the President of the Central European History Society of North America.^[3]

His research interests include modern European History, nationalist conflicts, revolutionary and counter revolutionary social movements, and the history of sexuality.^[4] His works on the Habsburg Empire and Central Europe are published in more than ten languages.

Awards

He is a 2010 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and received two Fulbright awards to Vienna, as a student and scholar.^[5] In Spring 2011, Pieter Judson was the recipient of Nina Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize in History at the American Academy in Berlin.^[6]

Publications

• Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire 1848—1914 (1996, winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association and the Austrian Cultural Institute's Prize for best book both of 1997)^[7]
• Wien Brennt. Die Revolution 1848 und ihre liberale Erbe (1998)
• Constructing nationalities in East Central Europe. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, 2005.
• Guardians of the nation: activists on the language frontiers of imperial Austria. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.^[8]
• The Habsburg Empire. A New History. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts)/London 2016, ^[9]
• Habsburg: Geschichte eines Imperiums: 1740 - 1918. München: C.H. Beck, 2017.^[10]
• “Nationalism in the Era of the Nation State” in Helmut W. Smith, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, Oxford University Press, 2011.
• “Nationalism and Indifference” in Habsburg Neu Denken. Vielfalt und Ambivalenz in Zentraleuropa. 30 Kulturwissenschatliche Stichworte.Vienna: Böhlau, 2016.

References

1. Web site: Ullman . Sharon . Queer Youth: On Campus and in the Media . 27 October 2019.
2. Web site: Pieter M. Judson . European University Institute . 27 October 2019.
3. Web site: Central European History Society – Welcome to CEHS . 2023-09-23 . en-US.
4. Web site: Dougherty . Ryan . Listen: Historian Pieter Judson '78 Reflects on Field, Swarthmore Experience . 27 October 2019 . 2 June 2015.
5. Web site: Pieter M. Judson - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . www.gf.org . 3 February 2022 . https://archive.today/20120731073257/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16797-pieter-judson . 31 July 2012 . dead.
6. Web site: Pieter M. Judson | American Academy in Berlin . 2016-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160603051644/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/pieter-m-judson . 2016-06-03 . dead .
7. Web site: Judson . Pieter M . Exclusive Revolutionaries . 27 October 2019 . en.
8. Book: Judson . Pieter M . Guardians of the nation : activists on the language frontiers of imperial Austria . 2006 . Harvard University Press . 9780674023253 . 27 October 2019.
9. June 2017. An Imperial Dynamo? CEH Forum on Pieter Judson's The Habsburg Empire: A New History. Central European History. 50. 2. 236–259. 10.1017/S0008938917000310. 231893527. 0008-9389.
10. Book: Judson, Pieter M. 1956-. Habsburg : Geschichte eines Imperiums : 1740-1918. Müller, Michael, C.H. Beck Verlag. 16 March 2017. 9783406706530. München. 976438263.