Faculty in History
Dr.
Richard Blanke
Professor of History
207-581-1919
145 Stevens Hall
E-Mail:
richard.blanke@umit.maine.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
I teach a variety of courses in modern European history with
particular attention to central and eastern Europe, including the
introductory survey of European Civilization II (HTY 106), a
two-semester intermediate course sequence in 20th Century Europe (HTY
409.410), and alternating two-semester course sequences in Modern
Germany (HTY 425.426) and Russian History (HTY 423.424). I also teach a
graduate seminar in Modern European Historiography every other year and
Senior Seminars on such topics as nationalism, totalitarianism, and
"comparing the cultures." My research has focused on nationalism and the
national problems of central Europe; above all, on German-Polish issues.
It has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Commission, American
Council of Learned Societies, and the Research and Exchanges Board. I am
a member of the German Studies Association, the American Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the National Association of Scholars,
the Association for the Study of Nationalities, and the Historical
Society.
Representative Publications: (books)
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'Polish-speaking
Germans?' Language and National Identity among the Prussian Masurians
(2001)
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Orphans of Versailles: Germans in Western Poland, 1918-1939
(1993)
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Prussian Poland in the German Empire, 1871-1900 (1981)
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also articles in Journal of Modern History, Journal of Contemporary
History, Slavic Review, Slavonic and East European Review,
Nationalities Papers, etc.
Work in Progress:
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Ethnic cleansing in east-central Europe after World War II
