Eliza Ablovatski joined the Kenyon history department in 2003, after graduate work in East Central European history at Columbia University and research and fellowships in Munich and Berlin, Germany and Budapest, Hungary. She teaches classes on Europe from 1500 to the present, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germany, Russia, the Habsburg Monarchy, film, nationalism and identity, gender, race, and the interwar period. Her dissertation and first book, Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), focused on the revolutionary upheavals in Munich and Budapest following the First World War, and their relationship to political violence and antisemitism. She is currently researching the occupation of Austria (1945-1955) at the end of the Second World War, and the nuclear idea in postwar Europe. She has also researched and written extensively on the history of Jews in the former Habsburg regional capital of Czernowitz (now Ukraine).

Areas of Expertise

Modern Europe, especially Germany and Central/East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; European Jewish and women's history, East European and German film and literature, socialism, war, and revolution.

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