Jeffrey Wilson

Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and the 2004/5 Marshall Plan Professor of Austrian Studies

Contact Information

Office Hours: MW 9:00-11:00; TTh 11:00-1:00 & by app’t.
Office Location: 156 Education Building
Phone: (504) 280-6891
Email Address: jkwilson@uno.edu

Educational Background

PhD, University of Michigan, 2002

Research Interests

Modern Europe, Central Europe, Germany, Cultural, Social & Environmental History, Nationalism

Background

His recent publications include: "Environmental Protest in Wilhelmine Berlin: The Campaign to Save the Grunewald," in From Heimat to Umwelt: New Perspectives on German Environmental History.  Frank Zelko (ed.).  Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, Supplement 3 (2006).  Forthcoming publications include "Imagining a Homeland: Constructing Heimat in the German East, 1871-1914," in National Identities 9 (early 2007); and "Environmental Chauvinism in the Prussian East: Forestry as a Civilizing Mission on the Ethnic Frontier, 1871-1914," in Central European History 41 (early 2008).Dr. Wilson is currently working on a book concerning the contested meanings of forests in imperial Germany

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