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Faculty Information » History Department Home » History Faculty Home Aviel Roshwald Professor of History Department of History Georgetown University Box 571035 Washington, DC 20057-1035 Tel. 202-687-6089 roshwaav@georgetown.edu

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Biographical Information Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987 A.M., Harvard University, 1981 B.A., summa cum laude, University of Minnesota, 1980 Year of birth: 1962 Aviel Roshwald has been on the faculty of Georgetown's Department of History since 1991. His interests include the comparative history of ethnic politics and nationalism in Europe and the Middle East, and the history of 19th- and 20th-century European international relations. For more information, click here and scroll to page 11 of the 2001 History Dept. Newsletter. Publications Click here for an online copy of "Kindred Blood, Mingled Blood: Ethnic and Civic Frameworks of National Identity," Chapter 5 from Aviel Roshwald, The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Books The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923 (London: Routledge, 2001). Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). Co-edited with Richard Stites: European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999; paperback ed., 2002). Selected articles, book chapters, and essays “The Nation-State as Domesticator of the Alien,” Ethnopolitics, Vol. 9, nos. 3-4 (September 2010), 415-418. (Response piece in symposium about Michael Hechter’s essay, “Legitimating Alien Rule.”) “Texts and Contexts in the Study of Nationalism” on pp. 649-658 of Anthony D. Smith, John Breuilly, Susan-Mary Grant and Aviel Roshwald, “Debate on Aviel Roshwald’s The Endurance of Nationalism,” Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 14, no. 4 (October 2008), 637-663. “Between Balkanization and Banalization: Dilemmas of Ethno-cultural Diversity,” Ethnopolitics, Vol. 6, no. 3 (September 2007), 365-378. “Ethnicity and Democracy in Europe’s Multinational Empires, 1848-1918,” in André W. M. Gerrits and Dirk Jan Wolffram, eds., Political Democracy and Ethnic Diversity in Modern European History (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), 65-77. Entry on “Ethnic Nationalism” in William H. McNeill et al., eds., Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005), Vol. 2, 676-680. “Jewish Identity and the Paradox of Nationalism,” in Michael Berkowitz, ed.,  Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), 11-24. “Jewish Cultural Identity in Eastern and Central Europe during the Great War,” in Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites, eds., European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 89-126. “Colonial Dreams of the French Right Wing, 1881-1914,” The Historian, Vol. 57, no. 1 (Autumn 1994), 59-74. “The Spears Mission in the Levant: 1941-1944,” The Historical Journal, Vol 29, no. 4 (Winter 1986), 897-919. Journals in which Aviel Roshwald has published book reviews and review essays American Historical Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Central Europe, Central European History, English Historical Review, European History Quarterly, German Politics and Society, Hebraic Political Studies, International History Review, Jewish Journal of Sociology, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Israeli History, Middle East Journal, Nationalities Papers, Nations and Nationalism, Peace and Change, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, The Historian. Papers and Presentations By invitation of the German Historical Institute (GHI): Commentator on panel, "Looking Back to Europe: Career Migrants in a Global World," at summer seminar on "Europe -- Migration -- Identity," co-organized by the GHI (Washington, DC) and the University of Minnesota's History and Immigration Research Center, Minneapolis, 25 August 2011. Commentator on panel, “Fifty Years After: New Perspectives on the Vienna Summit of 1961,” at the Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC and at the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Conference, Alexandria, VA, 22/23 June 2011. By invitation: “The Twenty-First Century as Age of the Nation-State,” Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Seminar Series: Nation-Building for the Twenty-First Century, London School of Economics, 31 May 2011. By invitation: “Violence and the Structuring of Eurasian Identities, 1917-1923: Possible Frameworks of Comparative Analysis,” War Studies Seminar, Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland, 14 April 2011. “Between Empires and Nation-States: Organizing Power and Identity in Eurasia, 1919-1949,” at The King’s College-Georgetown University Global History Forum on Empires and Globalizations in the Making of the Modern World, Washington/London, September 2010/May 2011. By invitation: "Bounded Freedom: The Possibilities and Limitations of National Self-Determination," Fifth Galilee Colloquium on Social, Moral, and Legal Philosophy: The End of the Nation State? Theoretical Dimensions and Historical Realities (Professor Shlomo Avineri, convener), Kibbutz Kfar Blum, Israel, 10-13 June 2010. Participant in roundtable on “The Russian Empire’s Nationality and Citizenship Practices: Entanglements and Borrowings from Other Empires,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Convention, Boston, 13 November 2009. By invitation: “Nationalism, Internationalism, and Collaboration in the Second World War: An Agenda for Comparative Analysis,” Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 19 October 2009. Commentator on panel about “Post-World War I Austria: Austria and the Political, Economic and Social Legacies of World War I,” German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, 11 October 2009. By invitation of the ASN Program Committee: Discussant on panel about John Hall’s Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography (Verso, 2009) at the Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York, 23 April 2009. By invitation of the ASN Program Committee: Discussant on panel about Ben Kiernan’s Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Yale University Press, 2007) at the Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York, 11 April 2008. By invitation: “Nationalism before Modernity: The Case of the Ancient Jews,” Department of History and Schusterman Program for Judaic and Israel Studies, University of Oklahoma, 5 March 2008. By invitation: Panelist at debate on my book, The Endurance of Nationalism, hosted by the journal Nations and Nationalism and the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), chaired by Anthony D. Smith at the London School of Economics, 31 October 2007. By invitation:  Respondent at panel discussion on my book, The Endurance of Nationalism, organized by Vejas Liulevicius at the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) annual convention, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, 12 April 2007. By invitation: “Between Banalization and Balkanization: Dilemmas of Ethno-Cultural Diversity,” Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Cultural Autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Department of Eastern and Central European Studies, University of Glasgow, 17-18 July 2006. By invitation of the AHA Program Committee: Organizer of, and participant in, roundtable panel on “Nationalism: Global Perspectives on the Civic/Ethnic Dichotomy,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 5 January 2006. By invitation: “Kinship and Community: Ethnic and Civic Conceptions of Nationhood,” Second German-American Frontiers of Humanities Symposium (co-sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the American Philosophical Society), Hamburg, Germany, 20-23 October 2005. By invitation: “The Nation in History and the Curved Arrow of Time,” Harvard University International History Seminar, 15 December 2004. Commentator on panel about “Theodor Herzl Revisited: 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod,” German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, 8 October 2004. By invitation: “Ethnicity and Democracy in Europe’s Multinational Empires, 1848-1918,” Conference on “Political Democracy and Ethnic Diversity,” University of Amsterdam and Netherlands Centre for Contemporary History, 13-15 March 2002. “The Mirage of Self-Determination: Defining the Boundaries of Identity in Post-1918 Eastern Europe and the Middle East,” Conference on “Mars in Ascendant: The Great War and the Twentieth Century,” University College Northampton, U.K., 31 July-4 August 2001. By invitation: “The Ambiguities of Nationalism: A Jewish Perspective,” at Georgetown University History Department’s Quigley Forum on nationalism, featuring Benedict Anderson as main speaker, 3-4 November 2000. By invitation: “Jewish Identity and the Paradox of Nationalism,” Conference on “Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilisation,” Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, 13-15 June 2000. “World War I and the Crisis of Nationalism,” presented to the faculty seminar at Catholic University’s Department of History, Washington, D.C., 9 April 1997. “The Shock of Independence: World War I and the Crisis of the Nation-State in East Central Europe and the Middle East,” Conference of the Rocky Mountain World History Association, University of Utah, 31 October - 2 November 1996. By invitation: “The French in the Levant during World War II,” Colloquium on Modern and Contemporary Syria, Tel Aviv University, 1 June 1988. Undergraduate courses: History 001: World History I: The Power of Identity (Late Bronze Age to 1500 A.D.) History 002: World History II: The Power of Identity (1500-2001) History 246: European International Relations I (1789-1914) History 247: European International Relations II (1914-1991) History 440: Problems in the History of Nationalism History 446: Religious Wars, From Crusades to al-Qaeda Graduate courses: History 505: Comparative History INAF 507: Globalization and Intersocietal Relations (MSFS students only) History 601: Modern European Nationalism History 606: Collaboration in the Second World War History 708: Identity and Intolerance in Modern European History
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