Robert Nelson

Associate Professor, History
Graduate Faculty

Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 2003
M.A. Simon Fraser University, 1997
B.A. Simon Fraser University, 1996

2182 Chrysler Hall North
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
tel. 519-253-3000 ext. 2322

rnelson@uwindsor.ca

Research & Teaching Interests

Modern European cultural history, German history, First World War, colonialism.

Current Projects

My new area of research, begun while a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, at the University of Bristish Columbia, investigates the development of a German 'colonial gaze' upon Eastern Europe, which began in the 1880s, and radicalized during the First World War. My areas of interest thus include: the social and cultural history of war and occupation, as well as both overseas and 'inner' colonialism.

Selected Publications

German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War (Cambridge, 2011)
 

Editor. Germans, Poland and Colonial Expansion to the East: 1850 Through the Present (Palgrave, 2009).

'From Manitoba to the Memel: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East' Social History 35:4 (2010)
 

“Germany and the Germans at War”. Review article of five books. International History Review 31 (2009): 85-95.

Recent Graduate Students Supervised

Steven Dale, "Textbooks, Teachers, and the Current Status of the Canadian Grand Narrative," 2010.

Jacob Miller, "Red Flux: The Shifting American Perspectives Towards Russians and the Soviet State 1937-1955, 2010.

Agata Kubiak, "Pamietenmy- Polish Historiography of the Polish-Soviet War 1919-1939," 2010.

Charles Bain, "Myth and History: Aboriginal Peoples,
Canada, and the First World War," 2009.

Justin Fantauzzo, "He Made Our Lives Worth Living: Masculinity, British Soldiers and the Image of General Edmund Allenby in the Palestine Campaign, 1917-18," 2009.

John Conlon, "The Power of Propaganda and Other Factors that Influenced the Morale of Canadian Troops in World War One," 2008.

Gary Collins, "Moving Images: Identify, Memory and History in the West Germany Cinema, 1962-1984," 2008.

Rochelle Pereira, "Alcohol and the Male Image: Representations of Gender, Race and Class in Canadian Club Whisky and Guinness Stout Advertisements from 1930-1965," 2006.

Courses Taught