Three professors invited to CHSP in November

Ota KONRAD

Ota Konrad (photo on the left) is an associate professor of modern history and director of the Modern history Ph.D. program at Charles University in Prague. Currently, he is a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute of East and Southeast European History at the Munich University (from February 2021 to February 2022). He was the head of the Department of German and Austrian Studies at Charles University from 2012 until 2019 and a visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessor) at the University in Regensburg in the spring term of 2018. He has worked on topics dealing with the history of the humanities, history of foreign policy, WWI history in central Europe, cultural history of violence, and contemporary Austrian history. In his current research project, he focuses on domestic violence and its contexts in post-1945 West Germany and Czechoslovakia as a tool for analyzing the complex postwar societal and political reconstruction.

Contact: ota.konrad@fsv.cuni.cz / Correspondant: Guillaume Piketty

Simon LEVIS SULLAM

Simon Levis Sullam (middle photo) is Associate Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He was trained and has spent research and teaching periods in Italy, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. He was a Research Associate at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies of Columbia University NYC, an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at UC Berkeley, a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole, a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His many publications include: Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism (Palgrave 2015); The Italian Executioners. The Genocide of the Jews of Italy (Princeton University Press 2018); Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism. A Global History (co-edited with A. Green, Palgrave 2020).

Thomas ZEILER

Thomas Zeiler - Fulbright Specialist (photo on the right) is a Professor of History and Director of the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. He specializes in American history, focused on diplomacy and economics, globalization, baseball and sports, and World War II. His current research and forthcoming book is Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free Trade Internationalism, to be published by Oxford University Press. Tom has served as the editor of the journal of record of his field, Diplomatic History, served as President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), and as a member of the Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee, and has lectured widely abroad, including holding Fulbright fellowships in Argentina, Japan, and France.