Alexander Maxwell

Senior Lecturer

MA and PhD in History (University of Wisconsin)
MA in Nationalism Studies (Central European University)
B.A.S. in History and Physics (University of California, Davis)

Director, Antipodean East European Study Group

This scholarly society examines the peoples and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. For further information, see the website:
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/antipodean/index.aspx

Contact details

Lectures in

HIST 118: Making Europe Modern: Citizens, States and Nations
HIST 120: Global History
HIST 239: Special Topic: History of the German-Speaking Peoples
HIST 239: Special Topic: Peoples of the Soviet Empire
HIST 329: Special Topic: Nationalism in European History
HIST 329: Sex and Society in Modern Europe

Research Areas

• The Habsburg and Ottoman Empires and their successor states
• Nationalism, particularly linguistic nationalism
• Everyday life in Europe, 1750-1950
• The social history of clothing
• The history of sexuality
  

Research

Supervision

I am very interested in supervising theses related to nationalism, ethnicity, social history of language, gender history, or the history of everyday life. I am best qualified to assist students working in European history, but am willing to supervise topics in other geographic areas.

Recent publications

Books:

• Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language, and Accidental Nationalism, (London: IB Tauris, 2009)
• Reciprocity Between the Tribes and Dialects of the Slavic Language, a translation of Ján Kollár’s Wechselseitigkeit, with a 72-page introduction “Ján Kollár’s Linguistic Nationalism.” (Bloomington: Slavica Press, 2008).

Articles / Book Chapters:

• “Polish Goals in a Panslav Context: Walerjan Krasiński’s Panslavism and Germanism,” New Zealand Journal of Slavonic Studies, vol. 42 (2008), 101-20
• “Slavic Macedonian Nationalism: From ‘Regional’ to ‘Ethnic’,” Ethnologia Balkanica, vol. 11 (2008), 127-54. A Bulgarian translation has appeared as Славянският – Македонский национализъм: от – „регионален” към „этнически,“ in the journal Македонски преглед [Macedonian Review], no. 1 (2009), 1-36.
• “National Endogamy and Double Standards: Sexuality and Nationalism in East-Central Europe during the 19th Century,” Journal of Social History (December 2007), 413-33
• “ ‘Such a Smoking Nation as This I Never Saw…’: Tobacco, Nationalism and 19th Century Hungarian Society,” Journal of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, vol. 21 no.1 (Autumn 2006), 7-23
• Why the Slovak Language has Three Dialects: A Case Study in Historical Perceptual Dialectology,” Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 37 (Spring, 2006), 385-414.  This article won the R. John Rath Prize. It appears in Slovak translation as “Prečo má slovenčina tri nárečia: prípadová štúdia z historickej perceptuálnej dialektológie,” see Sibyla Mislovičová, ed., Jazyk a jazykoveda v pohybe (Bratislava, 2008) and in the e-journal Forum Historiae, vol. 3, no. 2 (2009).
• “Budapest and Thessaloniki as Slavic Cities (1800-1914): Urban Infrastructures, National Organizations and Ethnic Territories,” Ethnologia Balkanica, vol. 9 (2006), 43-64
• “Multiple Nationalism: National Concepts in 19th century Hungary and Benedict Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 11, no.3 (Fall 2005), 385-414
• “Magyarization, Language Planning, and Whorf – The Word ‘Uhor’ as a Case Study in Linguistic Relativism,” Multilingua, vol. 23, no. 4 (2004), 319-337
• “Contemporary Hungarian Rune Writing: Linguistic Nationalism within a Homogenous Nation,” Anthropos, 99 (2004), 161-175
• “Literary Dialects in China and Slovakia: Imagining Unitary Nationality with Multiple Orthographies,” International Journal of Sociolinguistics, no. 164 (2003), 129-149.
• “Hungaro-Slavism: Territorial and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Slovakia,” East Central Europe/l’Europe du Centre-Est (ECE/ECE), vol. 29/pt.1 (2002), 45-58
• “Ban the Bullet Point! Content-Based PowerPoint for Historians,” The History Teacher, vol. 41, no. 1 (November, 2007), 1-17

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