| Burr, Christina |
| Howsam, Leslie |
| Huffaker, Shauna |
| Kulisek, Larry |
| Lazure, Guy |
| McCrone, Kathleen |
| Mohamed, Mohamed |
Nelson, Robert
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| Palmer, Steven |
| Pole, Adam |
| Simmons, Christina |
| Way, Peter |
| Wright, Miriam |
History
University of Windsor
Room 2164 CHN, 401 Sunset
Windsor Ontario N9B 3P4
email: history@uwindsor.ca
telephone: 519-253-3000
ext. 2318 |  | Faculty Information Sheet
Nelson, Robert
Office location: 2182 CHN
Office Ext: 253-3000 ext. 2322
Email address: rnelson@uwindsor.ca
Degree and Research Interest:
Ph.D. - Modern European History
Position: Assistant Professor, Graduate Faculty,
Personal Statement and Research
I am a Professor of History, and received my Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2003. I have previously taught at Trent University, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. My dissertation analysed the soldier newspapers of the German, French, British and Commonwealth armies in the First World War. I particularly focused on German occupation and the construction of 'manly justification' in the German newspapers. I am currently revising this manuscript for publication. My new area of research, begun while a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, at the University of Bristish Columbia, investigates the development of a German 'colonial gaze' upon Eastern Europe, which began in the 1880s, and radicalized during the First World War. My areas of interest thus include: the social and cultural history of war and occupation, as well as both overseas and 'inner' colonialism.
From 2001 to 2002, I was an associate producer at CBCs award-winning investigative program the fifth estate.
Publications...
Cultured Warriors: German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War (Manuscript)
Colonialism in Europe? Germany's Expansion to the East(Editing this anthology for submission)
"Comparative Colonialisms; German Views of Canada's West and the Baltic East", in Journal of Baltic Studies 38:2 (Summer 2007). Special Edition, Guest Editors: Robert L. Nelson and Stefan Gaenzle. (Forthcoming)
"Unsere Frage ist der Osten': Representations of the Occupied East in German Soldier Newspapers, 1914-1918,' Zietschrift fur Ostmitteleuropaforschung [Journal of East Cetnral European Research] 51, no. 4 (2002, 500-528.
"German Comrades - Slavic Whores: Gender Images in the German Soldier Newpapers of the First World War" in: Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany. Edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schueler-Springorum. Berg: Oxford and New York, 2002, pp. 69-85. This article appears in German as "Deutsche Kameraden - slawische Huren. Geschlechterbilder in deutschen Fedlzeitungen des Ersten Weltkrieges" in: Heimat - Front. Militar und Geschledchterverhaltnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege. Eds. K. Hagemann and S. Schueler-Springorum. Campus: Frankfurt, 2002, pp. 91-107.
"Ordinary Germans in the First World War? German Soldiers as Victims and Participants". Review article of five books. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 39, No. 4 (July 2004).
Soldatenzeitungen" [Soldier Newspapers], in the Encyklopedie des Ersten Weltkriegs, [Encyclopedia of the First World War] edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld. Paderborn: Scholingh, 2004.
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