European History
The graduate program in European History at the University of Florida offers students a variety of concentrations for study at both the MA and PhD levels. Students may work with professors in traditionally defined chronological periods of European history, such as Late Antiquity, medieval Europe, early modern Europe, and modern Europe. Within this chronological framework, the program offers students the opportunity to study traditional western European history with a focus on France, Britain, and Germany.
The European section also has distinctive configurations of faculty, whose current research interests enable students to pursue more focused study of the following themes and regions:
Religious History / Central and East-Central Europe / History of Science
Europeanists at the University of Florida are also represented in trans-national, thematic areas of study that draw on faculty from across the Department of History, currently including:
the Atlantic World / Gender and Sexuality / Legal History
Strong links with other UF departments and centers reinforce the graduate program in European History. Graduate students in European History receive language training in the departments of Germanic and Slavic Studies, Romance Languages, African and Asian Languages and Literatures, and Classics. They are exposed to the theories and methodologies of other disciplines while working with faculty in the departments of Anthrolopology, Classics, English, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology. Finally, they may take advantage of the programs, funding opportunities, and intellectual communities offered by several interdisciplinary centers on campus (link to affiliated programs and centers).
Current European History faculty include:
Peter Bergmann (modern Europe, Germany, intellectual history)
Nina Caputo (medieval Jewish history and culture, medieval history)
Florin Curta (medieval Eastern Europe, Byzantium, medieval archaeology, ethnicity)
George Esenwein (modern Spain, 20th-century Europe, political ideologies)
Stuart Finkel (Russia and the Soviet Union)
Alice Freifeld (eastern Europe, modern Hungary, genocide and refugees)
Geoffrey Giles (Germany, Holocaust, sexuality, education, social history of
alcohol)
Frederick Gregory (German science 18th and 19th centuries, science and religion)
Jessica Harland-Jacobs (British Empire, Ireland, Atlantic world, imperialism)
Mitchell Hart (modern Jewish history, Central Europe, history of social sciences)
Robert A. Hatch (early mod intellectual and cultural history, the scientific
revolution)
Sheryl Kroen (late mod Europe, political culture France, Germany, England,
and US)
Howard Louthan (early mod central Europe, cultural, intellectual, & religious
history)
Andrea Sterk (history of Christianity, Late Antiquity, Byzantium)
European History PhDs (graduated since 2006 or in progress):
Mark Cole, “Feeding the Volk: Food, Culture,
and the Politics of Nazi Consumption” (in progress)
Advisor: Geoffrey Giles
Mark
Correll, “Finding the Words of God: The
Contest for Moral Authority in Germany's Believing Protestant Community,
1888-1919” (completed 2007)
Advisor: Frederick Gregory
William Greer, “Collateral Damage: German Experience & Memory
of Bombing in World War II” (in progress)
Advisor: Geoffrey Giles
Daniel Julich, Daniel, “Pascal, Devout Savant:
The Works of Pascal and the Learned Community in 17th-Century Paris” (in
progress)
Advisor: Robert Hatch
Lela Felter Kerley,“Female Public Nudity in Belle Époque
Paris” (completed 2007)
Advisor: Sheryl Kroen
Bruce McCord, Bruce, “The German Academic Elite
during the Third Reich Leaders or Followers of National Socialism?” (in
progress)
Advisor: Geoffrey Giles
Dissertator: Meyer, Michal
Dissertation title: “The Spaces and Places of Mary
Somerville”
Advisor: Gregory, Frederick
Dissertation is currently in progress
Dissertator: Murdzhev, Pavel
Dissertation title:
Advisor: Curta, Florin
Dissertation in progress
Dissertator: Morse, Michael
Dissertation title: “Catholic Iconography in the
Stuart Court”
Advisor:
Dissertation is currently in progress
Dissertator: Pierce, Samuel
Dissertation title: “Political Catholicism in Spain's
Second Republic, 1931-36: The Confederación Española de Derechas
Autónomas in Madrid, Seville, and Toledo”
Advisor: Esenwein, George R.
PhD 2007
Dissertator: Shedden, Dawn
Dissertation title: “Crossing Boundary Lines: Religion,
Revolution, and Nationalism on the German Border, 1789-1815”
Advisor: Kroen, Sheryl T.
Dissertation is currently in progress
Dissertator: Stuckey, Jace
Dissertation title: “Charlemagne: The Making of
an Image, 1100-1300”
Advisor: Curta, Florin Completed: 2006
Dissertator: Stufflet, Shane
Dissertation title: “No 'Stunde Null': German Attitudes
toward the Mentally Handicapped and Their Impact on the Postwar Trials
of T4 Perpetrators”
Advisor: Giles, Geoffrey J. Completed: 2006
Dissertator: Terceira, Ayne
Dissertation title: “A Theatre of Botany: Medical
Herbalism as Popular Protest during the English Civil War”
Advisor: Smocovitis, Vassiliki B.
Dissertation is currently in progress
