Biography

Pieter M. Judson is part-time Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2014 to 2024, he held the Chair in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History at the EUI.

Before that he taught for 21 years at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History and International Relations. Judson holds a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (1987). He has authored articles and prize-winning books on diverse aspects of the history of Central and Eastern Europe. Most recently, The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Harvard-Belknap, 2016), has been translated into twelve European and Asian languages.

In 2025 Oxford University Press will publish The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (written together with Tara Zahra). For ten years Judson served as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook, and he was President of the Central European History Society of North America (2020-2022).

He has received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, the American Academy in Berlin, Phi Beta Kappa, and in 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize for Guardians of the Nation. Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Harvard 2006).

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Interwar Histories Working Group

Supervisees

• Andreas Schurr
• Björn Johnsen
• Christopher Wendt
• Corentin Gruffat
• Louisa Niesen
• Maria Pantazi
• Marie-Theres Findeisen
• Niklas Platzer
• Sandra Ricker
• Sven Mörsdorf
• Tobias Kossytorz
• Tymoteusz Skowroński
• Wouter Baas

Currently second reader for:

• Aliesia Soloviova
• Elisa Chazal
• Eoghan Hussey
• Erlend Colleuille
• Julià Gómez Reig
• Lewis Driver
• Michał Narożniak
• Riccardo Bulgarelli

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2024), Endet das Imperium nach seinem Ende? , Contribution to book
• AYDIN, Cemil; BALLOR, Grace Ann; CONRAD, Sebastian Anton; COOPER, Frederick; CUUNJIENG ABOITIZ, Nicole; DRAYTON, Richard; GOEBEL, Michael; JUDSON, Pieter M.; KOTT, Sandrine; MILLER, Nicola; ROSHWALD, Aviel; SLUGA, Glenda; WALKER, Lydia (2024), Rethinking nationalism , Article
• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2024), Prisons of peoples? : empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1925 , Article
• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2024), Au centre, la périphérie : repenser l’Europe révolutionnaire du XIXe siècle , Article
• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2024), Die Bedeutung der österreichischen Liberalen : das Jahr 1848 und sein Erbe , Contribution to book
• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2023), Making minorities and majorities : national indifference and national self determination in Habsburg central Europe , Contribution to book