Dr Jakub Benes

 

CENDARI project research fellow

Department of History

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About

I study the history of modern east central Europe, focusing on social movements, nationalism, and popular culture at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Qualifications

  • PhD in History, University of California, Davis
  • BA in International Studies, Middlebury College, Vermont

Research

I am currently interested in workers’ politics in Habsburg Austria during the First World War. To approach this topic in a new way, I hope to use the digital tools and transnational access offered by the CENDARI project, which I am also helping to coordinate. This stage of my research is a continuation of my dissertation project, which presented a cultural history of ethnic nationalism among Czech and Austrian-German socialist workers in the period 1890-1914.

Publications

  • “Socialist Popular Literature and the Czech-German Split in Austrian Social Democracy, 1890-1914” [Forthcoming in Slavic Review Summer 2013]
  •  “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 2/2012

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