Editor/Site Creator

Eric G.E. Zuelow (Assistant Professor of Modern European History, West Liberty State College) received his Ph.D. in European history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2004. His first monograph, Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War is currently under advance contract. He is co-editor of Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (forthcoming from Routledge, March 2007) and has published a number of articles on commemoration, nationalism, and the role of tourism in (re-)shaping national identity.

Assistant Editor

Catherine M. Burns (Ph.D. Candidate in United States History, University of Wisconsin–Madison) studies American immigration, race, ethnicity, and nationalism in transnational perspective. She is writing a dissertation entitled "Cranks and Kickers, Vixens and Spitfires: American Nativism and New York's Progressive Irish Nationalists, 1913-1925."

Advisory Committee

David A. Bell (Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University) is author of Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France, numerous articles related to nationalism, and is co-editor of Raison universelle et culture nationale au siècle des lumières. His latest book is titled The Cult of the Nation in France and is published by Harvard University Press.

John Breuilly (Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, London School of Economics) is author of Nationalism and the State as well as numerous works on German and European history. He is currently completing on a two-volume book entitled Modernisation Theory and German History.

Rogers Brubaker (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles) is author of Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany, and The Limits of Rationality: An Essay on the Social and Moral Thought of Max Weber. He is the editor of Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Europe and North America.

Daniele Conversi (Senior Lecturer in European Policy Studies, University of Lincolnshire) is the author of the highly praised The Basques, the Catalans, and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization and German-Bashing and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. He has written extensively on issues of nationalism, ethnicity, and violence for a variety of scholarly journals.

Don Doyle (McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina) is author of Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question, Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, New Men, New Cities, New South, and numerous other works. He is currently working a collection of essays with Marco Pamplona titled Nationalism in the New World: The Americas and the Atlantic World.

Stephen E. Hanson (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington) is coeditor of Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Post-Communist Societies and author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions.

Michael Hechter (Professor of Sociology, University of Washington) is author of Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 and Principles of Group Solidarity. His latest book is titled Containing Nationalism.

Robert Kaiser (Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin—Madison) is author of The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR and Russians as the New Minority in the Soviet Successor States. He has written numerous articles on issues related to nationalism and identity in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Adeeb Khalid (Associate Professor of History, Carleton College) is author of Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Tsarist Central Asia.

Lynette Spillman (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame) is author of Nation and Commemoration : Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia.

Thongchai Winichakul (Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is author of Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation.

M. Crawford Young (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is author of several award winning books including: The Politics of Cultural Pluralism, and The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. He is co-author of Rise and Decline of the Zairian State and is an expert scholar of African politics.

Project Assistant

Nicolas Queen (Fall 2005–Spring 2006): Queen is an undergraduate at West Liberty State College with a particular interest in U.S. history.