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Dr James Ward

MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (University of Washington), MA and PhD in History (Stanford University)

Lecturer in Modern European History

Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3862

E-mail: j.ward@qub.ac.uk

Office: 17UQ.206

Dr Ward received his graduate training from the University of Washington and Stanford University. In 2008–2010, he was an Acting Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Stanford University, and in 2010–2011, an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at DePauw University, Indiana. His scholarship has won several prizes, including the Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award for the most deserving article to appear in Pacific Historical Review in 2008. He has also received several national fellowships, including from the Mellon Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fulbright-Hayes Program, and the International Research and Exchanges Board. Before training as a historian, Ward taught English as a Second Language for seven years in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Thailand.

Research Interests

Dr Ward’s research interests include religion, nationalism, mass violence, collaboration and resistance, and expropriation. At present, he is completing a political and intellectual biography of Jozef Tiso (1887–1947), the priest-president of Slovakia during the Second World War and the only executed war criminal to be seriously proposed as a Catholic saint. He has also started work on a general history of modern expropriation, tentatively titled The People’s Property. Framed as a voyage through time and space from Josephist Vienna to Stalinist Budapest, this project will investigate a series of episodes of or debates about expropriation. The book’s premise is that expropriation has an inner logic that has served as a driver for modernity.

Select Publications

Books:

No Saint: Jozef Tiso, 1887–1947. Cornell University Press (under contract for 2013 publication).

Articles:

'Legitimate Collaboration: The Administration of Santo Tomás Internment Camp and Its Histories, 1942–2003', Pacific Historical Review 77 (2008): 159–201. (Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award, 2008)

'“People Who Deserve It": Jozef Tiso and the Presidential Exemption', Nationalities Papers 30 (2002): 571–601. (Special mention in the Czechoslovak History Conference Stanley Z. Pech Prize for best article published in 2001–2002 on Czech or Slovak history; Slovak-American International Cultural Foundation Prize for best graduate student essay [judges provided by the Slovak Studies Association], 2002)

'“Black Monks": Jozef Tiso and Anti-Semitism', Kosmas 14, no. 1 (fall 2000): 29–54.

Teaching

Dr Ward teaches the following modules

Fall 2011

HIS3017         The Russian Revolution, 1894–1921

HIS2050         Europe between the Wars

 

Spring 2012

HIS3039         Soviet Russia, 1921–1964

HIS1002         European Nationalism since 1600