Eliza Ablovatski was a new member of the Kenyon history department in 2003. She comes from graduate work in East Central European history at Columbia University. Her dissertation explores the cultural ramifications of the failed revolutions of 1919 in Hungary and Germany. From 1998 to 2000 she was in Munich, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary, for dissertation research, and then spent two years in Berlin as a fellow at the Center for Comparative European History and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

Areas of Expertise

Women's history, European Jewish history, East European and German film and literature, war and revolution in 20th Century Europe

Education

Ph.D., M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University
B.A. summa cum laude, Amherst College

Selected Publications

"The Central European Revolutions of 1919 and the Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism," European Review of History, Vol. 17/ Issue 3: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (2010), 473-489.

"Between Red Army and White Guard: Women in Budapest, 1918-1919," in Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, edited by Maria Bucur and Nancy Wingfield
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2006

Zwischen Pruth und Jordan. Lebenserinnerungen Czernowitzer Juden , with Gaby Coldewey and others Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2003

"The Girl with the Titus-head: Women in Revolution in Munich and Budapest, 1919" Nationalities Papers 28/3 (September 2000), 541-550

Czernowitz ist gewen an alt jiddische Stdt: Überlebende berichten, With Gaby Coldewey and others. First Edition: Czernowitz,Ukraine: distributed by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 1998 Second Edition: Berlin, 1999 (Third edition: Potsdam, forthcoming 2009)

Courses Taught

HIST 131 Early Modern Europe
HIST 132 Modern Europe
HIST 231 Habsburg Empire
HIST 232 Modern European Womens History
HIST 233 Studies in Russian and the Soviet History
HIST 236 Gender, Race, and Class in Modern Germany
HIST 331 Europe Between the World Wars
HIST 333 Freud's Vienna
HIST 334 History and Memory in Eastern Europe
HIST 337 Socialism at the Movies
HIST 339 Eastern European Life Stories