- Associate Professor in Central European History, UCL
I am a historian of central and eastern Europe in the modern era. I have published books on the rise of nationalism in the socialist movement of Austria-Hungary (Oxford, 2017) and on peasant violence and rural politics in the period of world wars in eastern Europe (Princeton, 2025).
Experience
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2019–presentAssociate Professor in Central European History, University College London
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2017–2019Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Birmingham
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2015–2017Departmental Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford
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2012–2015Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Birmingham
Education
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2012University of California, Davis, PhD/History
Publications
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2025The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, Princeton University Press
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2025‘Parallel Revolution: Hungarian peasants during the upheavals of 1918-1920’, Journal of Modern History
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2019‘The colour of hope: The Legacy of the “Green Cadres” and the Problem of Rural Unrest in the First Czechoslovak Republic’, Contemporary European History
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2017‘The Green Cadres and the Collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918’, Past and Present
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2017Workers and Nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918, Oxford University Press
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2013‘Socialist Popular Literature and the Czech-German Split in Austrian Social Democracy, 1890-1914’, Slavic Review
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2012‘Czech Social Democracy, František Soukup, and the Habsburg Austrian Suffrage Campaign 1897-1907 – Toward a New Understanding of Nationalism in the Workers’ Movements of East Central Europe’, Střed/Centre
Grants and Contracts
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2021Standard Research Grant
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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