Biography

Professor of 19th and 20th Century History

Since 2014 Pieter M. Judson holds the Chair in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History at the European University Institute in Florence. Before that he taught for 21 years at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History and International Relations. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (1987). He has authored many articles and several prize-winning books on several aspects of the history of Habsburg Central Europe, as well as The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Harvard-Belknap, 2016), which has been translated into twelve European and Asian languages. For ten years Judson served as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook, and he is currently President of the Central European History Society of North America. He has received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, the American Academy in Berlin, Phi Beta Kappa, and in 2010 he received the Karl von Vogelsang state prize from the Austrian government for Guardians of the Nation. Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Harvard 2006).

Supervisees

• Andreas Schurr
• Arda Akinci
• Christopher Wendt
• Corentin Gruffat
• Daniel Jansson
• Elisa Chazal
• Kamil Karczewski
• Moisés Fernández Cano
• Nikolaos Paraschis
• Oliver Pejic
• Pauli Aro
• Rachel Trode
• Sebastian Majstorovic
• Sils Sils
• Sven Mörsdorf
• Tobias Kossytorz

Fields of expertise

• Modern history
• 20th century (Twentieth century)
• Cultural history
• Political history
• Europe in the world
• Global history
• Empires
• Colonialism
• European borderlands
• Transnational history
• Diplomatic History
• Nationalism
• Gender and sexuality
• Democracy
• Ottoman Empire
• 19th century (Nineteenth century)

Recent research output

• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2021), Seeing the Habsburg monarchy as a global empire in an age of self-styled nation-states, Article

• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2020), Die globale Bedeutung der österreichischen Geschichte, Contribution to book

• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2021), The world in the association : liberal practice in 19th-century Habsburg Central Europe, Contribution to book

• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2021), Austria-Hungary, Contribution to book

• GRANDITS, Hannes; JUDSON, Pieter; ROLF, Malte (2020), Towards a new quality of statehood : bureaucratization and state-building in empires and nation states before 1914, Contribution to book

• JUDSON, Pieter M. (2020), Das stille Verschwinden des Staats : Österreich-Ungarn 1918, Contribution to book