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 / Religion
Strong links with other UF departments and centers reinforce the graduate program in European History. Graduate students in European History receive language training in modern European 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.
Faculty
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)
Bonnie Effros (early medieval history and archaeology, gender, history of archaeology)
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)
Norman Goda (modern Europe, Holocaust studies)
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)
Recent PhDs
Pavel Murdshev, "The Medieval Town in Bulgaria, thirteenth to fourteenth century" (completed 2008)
Advisor: Florin Curta
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
Lela
Felter Kerley,“Female Public Nudity in Belle Époque
Paris” (completed 2007)
Advisor: Sheryl Kroen
Steven Matthews, “Apocalypse and Experiment: The
Theological Assumptions and Religious Motivations of Francis Bacon’s
Instauration” (completed 2004)
Samuel Pierce, “Political Catholicism in Spain's Second Republic, 1931-36:
The Confederación
Española de Derechas Autónomas in Madrid, Seville, and Toledo” (completed
2007)
Advisor: George Esenwein
Jace Stuckey, “Charlemagne: The Making of an Image,
1100-1300” (completed 2006)
Advisor: Florin Curta
Shane Stufflet, “No 'Stunde Null': German Attitudes
toward the Mentally Handicapped and Their Impact on the Postwar Trials of
T4 Perpetrators” (completed, 2006)
Advisor: Geoffrey J. Giles
Current ABDs
Mark Cole, “Feeding the Volk: Food, Culture, and
the Politics of Nazi Consumption”
Advisor: Geoffrey Giles
William Greer, “Collateral Damage: German Experience & Memory
of Bombing in World War II”
Advisor: Geoffrey Giles
Daniel Julich, “Pascal, Devout Savant:
The Works of Pascal and the Learned Community in 17th-Century Paris”
Advisor: Robert Hatch
Bruce McCord, “The German Academic Elite
during the Third Reich Leaders or Followers of National Socialism?”
Advisor: Geoffrey Giles
Michal Meyer, "Speaking
for Nature: Mary Somerville and the Science of Empire"
Advisor: Frederick Gregory
Michael Morse, “Catholic Iconography in the
Stuart Court”
Advisor: Bob Hatch
Dawn Shedden, “Crossing Boundary Lines: Religion,
Revolution, and Nationalism on the German Border, 1789-1815”
Advisor: Sheryl Kroen
