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Associate Professor

Alexander Maxwell

Associate Professor

School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations

Orcid identifier0000-0002-5332-5795
  • Associate Professor
    School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations
  • +6444636753 (Work)
  • OK 422, Old Kirk Building, Gate 2, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand

BIO

Alexander Maxwell researches national awakening the Habsburg and its successor states, and particularly Slovakia and Hungary during the long nineteenth century. He has published extensively on linguistic nationalism and the history of linguistic ideologies, the history of everyday life, particularly nationalized sexuality and the social history of clothing. He also publishes pedagogical articles about teaching history. His broader interests concern nationalism and cultural history in the Habsburg, Romanov, Hohenzollern, and Ottoman Empires and their successor states. He is the director of the Antipodean East European Study Group.

DEGREES

  • Ph.D. (History)
    University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States2003
  • MA (Nationalism Studies)
    Central European University, Budapest, Hungary1999
  • MA (History)
    University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States1998
  • BAS (History and Physics)
    University of California, Davis, United States1992

LANGUAGES

  • German
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Czech
    Can read, speak and understand
  • Hungarian
    Can read, speak and understand
  • French
    Can read
  • Serbian
    Can read
  • Croatian
    Can read
  • Yiddish
    Can read and speak

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Career advice
  • Media enquiries

FIELDS OF RESEARCH