George S.
Vascik
vascikgs@muohio.edu
www.ham.muohio.edu/~vascikgs
Miami University-Hamilton
1601 Peck Boulevard
Hamilton, Ohio 45011
513-785-3272
home:
809 Melinda Drive
Oxford, Ohio 45056
513-523-9990
The University of Michigan, 9/77-8/88, Ph.D.
Thesis:
"Rural Politics and Sugar: A Comparative Study of the National Liberal
Party in Hannover and Prussian Saxony, 1871-1914."
Duke University, 9/76-5/77, M.A.
Thesis: "Anglo-Saxon Resistance to the Norman
Conquest, 1066-1076."
The University of Toledo, 9/72-8/76, B.A.
Thesis:
"John of Salisbury as Historian."
Miami University, Associate Professor of History,
6/97 to the present. Assistant
Professor of History, 9/92-6/97. Courses
taught: Western Civilization to 1500; Western Civilization since 1500;
Historical Inquiry; The Age of Revolutions: Europe 1750-1850; Industry and
Empire: Europe 1850-1914; Age of Dictators: Europe 1914-1945; The
Reconstruction of Europe since 1945; The Historical Foundations of the Social
Sciences: The Legacy of the Enlightenment; The Historical Foundations of the
Social Sciences: The Impact of the French and Industrial Revolutions; The Age
of Bismarck; The Age of Hitler; The Nüremberg Trials and their Legacies; The
Holocaust and Genocide in Modern History; Honors seminar on fin de siècle Paris and Vienna; Honors
seminar on War and Society in Twentieth Century Europe; Senior Capstone on the
Industrial Revolution in Fiction; Graduate Readings in German History; Graduate
Readings on the Origins of the First World War; Graduate Readings on Nineteenth
Century Europe; Graduate Colloquium on the Industrial Revolution; Graduate
Seminar on German Industrialization and Militarism. Directed independent studies on: Imperial Germany; Nazi Germany;
Prussian History; the Origins of the First World War; the Holocaust;
Anti-Semitism and Gender in Imperial Germany; Social and Cultural Aspects of
the Industrial Revolution; Contemporary Europe, Historical Paris. Directed departmental honors theses on:
Clausewitz and German Unification; National Socialist state structures; Forced
Labor Policy in Nazi-Occupied Europe; Nationalism and the Disintegration of the
Austrian Imperial Army.
The Ohio State University, Instructor of History,
9/90-6/92. Courses taught: Western
Civilization to 1600; Western Civilization since 1600; Contemporary Europe.
The University of Toledo, Part-time Assistant
Professor of History, 3/88-6/90.
Courses taught: Western Civilization to 1600; Western Civilization since
1600; American History since 1865; Honors Reading Seminar.
Madonna College, Instructor of History,
9/84-12/85. Courses taught: Modern
World Problems; American Diplomatic History.
The University of Michigan, Teaching and Research
Assistant, 9/77-5/83.
Book:
Fashioning the Political Man: Diederich Hahn and the
Transformation of Politics in Wilhelmine Germany. (Manuscript currently under consideration by
an academic press.)
Electronic Media:
The Imperial
German Elections Atlas. Interactive
web site sponsored by the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, the University
of California Berkeley.
Articles:
"Towards an Electoral Atlas of Imperial Germany:
Creating a Digital Electoral Atlas for the Prussian Province of
Hanover." Article submitted to Social
Science History.
"Agrarianism in the Prussian Administrative
District of Stade. What We Can Learn
from Historical GIS." Article
under review by the History & Computing.
"Agrarianism in the Villages. What the Electoral Record Shows." Article under review by the German
Studies Review.
"Computer-Assisted Analysis and Plotting of Village Returns in
German National Elections, 1893-1912," Journal of the American
Association for History and Computing, 4/1(2001).
"State Policy and Differential Development in
the German Sugar Industry, 1800-1871," Competing for the Sugar Bowl,
eds. Roger Munting and Tomas Szmrecsanyi, (St. Katherinen: Scripta Mercaturae
Verlag, 2000).
"Beyond the 'National Consensus': Recent
Research on the Origins and Trajectory of Germany's Industrial
Revolution," The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective,
ed. Christine Rider, (Homestead: Krieger Press, 2000).
"German States and the Industrial Revolution,
1800-1850," Essays in Economic and Business History, 15(1997):
11-27.
"Crisis or Transformation? Confronting the Myth
of Agricultural Depression in Wilhelmine Germany," Essays in Economic
and Business History, 14(1996): 91-103.
"Agrarian Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: Diederich
Hahn and the Agrarian League," in Between Reform, Reaction, and
Resistance. Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to the
Present, eds. Larry Eugene Jones and James Retallack, (Providence: Berg
Press, 1993).
"Sugar Barons and Bureaucrats: Unraveling the
Relationship between Economic Interest and Government in Modern Germany,
1799-1945," Business and Economic History, 22(1992):336-342.
"The German Peasant League and the Limits of
Rural Liberalism in Wilhelmine Germany," Central European History
24(1991): 147-175.
"What Was the German Sugar Cartel? An Analysis
of Interest Group Representation and Industrial Organization," Essays
in Economic and Business History, 8(1990):355-367.
"The Brussels Convention of 1902: Reevaluating
the Roles of State and Industry in Wilhelmine Germany," Essays in
Economic and Business History, 7(1989): 90-101.
Reviews:
Review
of Hubertus Hiller, Jäger und Jagd.
Zur Entwicklung des Jagdwesens in Deutschland zwischen 1848 und 1914
(Munster: Waxmann, 2003) on H-Net.
Review
of Dietmar Süß, Kumpel und Genossen.
Arbeiterschaft, Betrieb und Sozialdemokratie in der bayerischen
Montanindustrie 1945 bis 1976 (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2003) in German Studies Review.
Review
of Hans-Heinrich Müller, Franz Carl Achard. 1753 bis 1821 (Berlin: Bartens,
2002) in World Sugar History
Newsletter.
Review of W.R. Smyser, From Yalta to Berlin: The
Cold War Struggle Over Germany (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000)
forthcoming in The Journal of Military History.
Review of Wolfgang Neugebauer and Ralf Pröve, Agrarische
Verfassung und politische Struktur (Berlin: Berlin Verlag A. Spitz, 1998)
forthcoming in German History.
Review of Brett Fairbairn , Democracy in an
Undemocratic State. The German
Elections of 1898 and 1903 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1998)
forthcoming in the German Studies Review.
Review of Christian Leitz, ed., The Third Reich
(London: Blackwell, 1999) forthcoming in History: Review of New Books.
Review of Tom Scott, The Peasantries of Europe
(London: Longman, 1998) forthcoming on the list serve “H-W-Civ.”
Review of Peter Fritzsche , Germans into Nazis
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998) in The Historian
62/2(2000):451.
Review of Hans Pohl (ed.), Competition and
Cooperation of Enterprises on National and International Markets
(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Press, 1997) in the Economic History Review,
52(1999): 203-204.
Review of Robert Spaulding , Ostpolitik and Osthandel.
German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer
(Providence: Berghahn Press, 1997), in German Studies Review, 22(1999):
157-158.
Review of W.O. Henderson, The German Colonial
Empire 1884-1919 (London: Frank Cass, 1993), in The Historian,
58(1996): 236-237.
Review of Volker Berghahn, Imperial Germany,
1871-1914: economy, society, culture and politics (Providence: Berghahn
Books, 1994), in The Historian, 58(1996):101-102.
Review of Helmut Heiber, The Weimar Republic
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), in The Historian, 57(1995): 637-638.
Review of Mikael Hård, Machines are Frozen
Spirit. The Scientification of
Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century - A Weberian Analysis
(Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1994), in Central European History, 27(1994).
Review of W.R. Lee, ed., Essays on German Economic
and Business History (London: Routledge, 1992) in German Studies Review,
17(1994): 402.
Review of Duncan Smith, Walls and Mirrors. Western
Representations of Really Existing German Socialism in the German Democratic
Republic, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988), in German
Studies Review, 12(1989): 224-225.
Research Guides:
"Diedrich Hahn," "Deutscher Bauernbund,"
"Verein deutscher Studenten," "Tivoli Program,"
"Hermann Wagener," and "Werner Sombart," forthcoming in The
Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice and Persecution, ed.
Richard S. Levy, (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2003).
“Count Alfred von Schlieffen,” Magill’s Guide to
Military History, (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2001), volume 3, pp. 967-968.
“Battle of the
Marne,” Magill’s Guide to Military History, (Pasadena: Salem Press,
2001), volume 4, p. 1381.
"The Hindenburg Plan, 1916," Great
Events from History: Business and Commerce, (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994),
pp. 293-296.
Abstracts of articles from Geschichte und
Gesellschaft and German Studies Review for Historical
Abstracts, Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 1989-1993.
"The German Democratic Republic," Read
More About It, Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1989.
"Helmut Schmidt," The Book of Days 1988,
Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1988.
Editing:
Pre-publication Reviewer, Europe since 1945,
Talbott and Winks, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Pre-publication Reviewer, The West: Encounters and
Transformations, Lavack, Muir, Maas, and Veldman, Longman Press, 2002.
Pre-revision Editor, A History of Western Society,
McKay, Hill, and Buckler, Houghton-Miflin Publishing, 2000.
Associate Editor, Essays in Economic and Business
History, volumes XII-XV, (Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
1995-1998).
Work in progress:
Liberalism and Sugar: Party Politics and Economic
Interest in the German Countryside, 1850-1918 (40,000 word manuscript solicited by the University of Michigan
Press).
“Mapping Soil Structures, Village
Types and Market Patterns in East Friesland for the Second Half of the 19th
Century" Paper presented in November 2004 at the Social Science History
Association conference in Chicago, Illinois.
“Transatlantic Perspectives on
German Immigrant Communities and Culture.” Session chair. Comment presented in November
2004 at the Social Science History Association conference in Chicago, Illinois.
“The Imperial German Elections Atlas.” Paper presented to the
Congress of Cultural Atlases, May 2004, University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, California.
“Local dimensions of the 'crisis
of liberalism' in East Fresia as reflected in the German elections of 1881 and
1884.” Paper presented in March 2004 at the V International Conference of the
European Social Science History Association in Berlin, Germany.
“Using GIS to analyze urban
patterns in the past.” Session chair.
Comment presented in March 2004 at the XV International Conference of
the European Social Science History Association in Berlin, Germany.
“German
Agrarianism and the Creation of an anti-Socialist Coalition in the 1890s.”
Paper presented in November 2003 at the Social Science History Association
conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
“Sophisticates or Neophytes: Charting the
Campaign Behavior of Candidates in Imperial Germany Using Historical GIS.” Paper presented in August 2003 at the XV
International Conference of the Association for History and Computing in
Tromsø, Norway.
"Creating a Digital Electoral Atlas for the
Prussian Province of Hanover."
Paper presented in March 2002 at the 4th International
Conference of the European Social Science History in The Hague, Netherlands.
"Landed Wealth and Rural Indebtedness As Factors
In The Upsurge Of German Agrarianism: Evidence From The Administrative District
Of Stade." Poster session
presented in November 2001 at the Social Science History Association meeting in
Chicago.
"An exposition of the social and economic bases
of rural radicalism in fin-de-siécle Germany." Paper presented in August 2001 at the 15th International Congress
of the Association for History and Computing in Poznan, Poland.
"Computer-Assisted Analysis and Plotting of Village Returns in
German National Elections, 1893-1912."
Paper delivered at the 2001 meeting of the American Association for
History and Computing in Indianapolis, Indiana.
"Scientific Progress and Traditional Identity: Farmers and
Brewers in 19th Century Germany." Comment delivered at the 2000 meeting of the German Studies
Association in Houston, Texas.
"Workers and Politics and 20th
Century Europe." Comment delivered
at the 2000 meeting of the Ohio Academy of History in Westerville, Ohio.
"Defining Weber’s ‘new political
man’. Diederich Hahn and the
Transformation of Imperial German Politics." Paper delivered at the Fall 1999 meeting of the Social Science
History Association in Fort Worth, Texas.
"The
Role of Sugar Production in the ‘Agrarian Crisis’ of the 1890s." Paper delivered at the First Conference on
German Cliometrics in Fall 1999 in Toronto, Ontario.
"Agrarianism in the
Villages. What the Electoral Record
Shows." Paper delivered at the
1998 meeting of the German Studies Association in Salt Lake City, Utah.
"State Policy and Differential Development in
the German Sugar Industry, 1800-1871."
Paper delivered at the 1998 congress of the International Economic
History Association in Madrid, Spain.
"Poverty, Peasants, and Popery: Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century
Economic Culture." Comment
delivered at the 1998 meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Society,
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"A Troublesome Rooster: Diederich Hahn and the
Transformation of German Politics before the First World War." Paper delivered in October 1997 as part of
the Miami University - Hamilton faculty research seminar.
"From Idea to Reality: National Socialist Racial
Ideology and the Holocaust."
Public lecture series delivered in March 1997 at the Miami University Dolibois
European Center, Luxembourg.
"Einbahnstraße
zum Faschismus? Continuity in German Agrarian
Organization and Ideology, 1871-1933."
Paper delivered at the 1996 meeting of the International Society for the
Study of European Ideas in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
"The State and the Industrial Revolution in
Germany." Paper delivered at the
1996 meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Society in Savannah,
Georgia.
"Immer
wi(e)der Caprivi: the Utility of Crisis in German Agrarian
Politics." Paper delivered at the
1995 meeting of the Southern Historical Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Confronting the Jewish, Woman and Slavic
Questions in the Nineteenth Century."
Comment delivered at the 1995 meeting of the German Studies Association
in Chicago, Illinois.
"Defining Jews Out: Diederich Hahn and the
Evolution of German Agrarromantik." Paper delivered at the 1995 meeting of the
German Studies Association in Chicago, Illinois.
"Germany's Peculiar Industrialization: Economic
Aspects of the deutsche Sonderweg."
Paper delivered August, 1995 to the Seminar for Economic History,
Volkswirtschaftliches Institut, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, Munich,
Germany.
"Was there an Agrarian Crisis in Wilhelmine
Germany?" Paper delivered at the 1995 meeting of the Economic and Business
Historical Society in Boulder, Colorado.
"What Sort of Anti-Semite? Diederich Hahn and the Articulation of
Political Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany." Paper delivered at the 1995 meeting of the Ohio Academy of
History in Westerville, Ohio.
"Confronting the Myth of Agrarian Crisis in
Wilhelmine Germany."
Article-in-progress presented to the History Department, Miami
University, April, 1994.
"German and French Companies in the 20th
Century." Comment delivered at the
1994 meeting of the Business History Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia.
"Scheming Junkers and Docile Peasants?
Reassessing the Character and Function of the Bund der Landwirte."
Paper delivered at the 1993 meeting of the German Studies Association in
Washington, DC.
"An End to Comity: Sugar and the Worsening of
German-American Relations, 1880-1910."
Delivered at the 1993 meeting of the Ohio Academy of History in
Springfield, Ohio.
"Was Germany Blockaded Into Submission? Reexamining the Nutritional Aspects of the Allied
Blockade of Germany, 1914-1918."
Paper delivered at the 1992 meeting of the Ohio Academy of History in
Dayton, Ohio.
"Sugar Barons and Bureaucrats: Unraveling the
Relationship between Economic Interest and Government in Modern Germany,
1799-1945." Paper delivered at the
1992 Business History Conference in Pasadena, California.
"Nutrition and Nationhood: Control of German
Sugar Policy under the Reparations Regime." Paper delivered at the 1991 meeting of the Southern Historical
Association in Fort Worth, Texas.
"Modernizers or Mystics? Nazi Food Policy and
Administration in the Second World War."
Paper delivered at the 1991 Duquesne History Forum in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
"Politics in the German Empire: the Problematic
Authoritarian Legacy." Comment
delivered at the 1991 meeting of the German Studies Association in Los Angeles,
California.
"Nutritional Policy during World War II in Light
of National Socialist Agrarian Ideology."
Paper delivered at the 1991 meeting of the Ohio Academy of History in
Columbus, Ohio.
"Illusions on the Eve of the Great War:
Preparations for the Cataclysm, 1912-1918." Comment delivered at 1990 meeting of the American Historical
Association meeting in New York, New York.
"Diederich Hahn, the Agrarian League and the Politics
of Radical Agrarianism, 1893-1918."
Paper delivered at the 1990 meeting of the German Studies Association in
Buffalo, New York.
"Liberals and Sugar. A Study in Interest Group
Representation." Paper delivered
at the 1989 meeting of the German Studies Association conference in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
"What was the German Sugar Cartel? An Analysis
of Interest Group Representation and Industrial Organization. Paper delivered at the 1989 meeting of the
Economic and Business Historical Society meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
"Economic Interest Groups and the Parameters of
Trade Diplomacy in Wilhelmine Germany: the Brussels Sugar Convention of
1902. Paper delivered at the 1988
meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Society meeting in Toronto,
Ontario.
"The German Peasant League and National Liberal
Revival. Paper delivered at the 1987
meeting of the German Studies conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
"Defending the Socialist Fatherland: Origin and
Utility of the Nationale Volksarmee." Lecture delivered April 1986 at the Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.
"Landwirtschaft und politische Gesellschaft im
deutschen Kaiserreich." Paper
delivered March 1985 at Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, German Democratic
Republic.
"Der Bund der Landwirte und ländliche
Liberalismus in der Provinz Hannover."
Paper delivered March 1983 at the Universität Hannover, Hanover, Federal
Republic of Germany.
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Memorial
Holocaust Museum - 6/02.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Institute, "The People of Vienna in a Time of Turmoil, 1850-1955,"
Vienna, Austria - 6/01-7/01.
Miami University Learning Technologies Enrichment
Grant – 8/00-6/01.
Miami University-Hamilton Academic Excellence Grant –
1/01-6/01.
Miami University Hampton Fund for International
Education grant - 7/98-8/98.
Miami University-Hamilton Academic Excellence Grant -
7/98-8/98.
Miami University Summer Research Appointment -
6/97-8/97.
Miami University Commitee for Faculty Research Grant
- 6/96-8/96.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar,
Seminar for Economic History, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- 6/95-8/95.
Miami University-Hamilton Research Grant - 8/94-5/95.
Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies,
University of Michigan, Faculty Development and Enrichment Grant - 5/94.
Miami University-Hamilton Research Grant - 8/93-5/94.
Medici Foundation Teaching Enrichment Grant - 1993.
Miami University-Hamilton Academic Excellence Grant -
1992/93.
Miami University-Hamilton Research Grant - 1/92-5/93.
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to
Collections Grant - 6/90-8/90.
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Fellowship - Bonn, Germany,
10/86-5/87.
University of Michigan Fellowship - 9/85-5/86.
IREX Fellowship - Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle,
GDR, 1/85-4/85.
Rackham Dissertation Grant - 1/85-5/85.
University of Michigan Fellowship - 9/84-5/85.
DAAD Fellowship - Universität Hannover, Hanover,
Germany, 10/83-6/84.
DAAD Summer Grant - University of California,
Berkeley, 6/80-8/80.
Memberships
American Historical Association
The Historical Society
German Studies Association
Conference Group for Central European History
Social Science History Association
Ohio Academy of History
American Association for History and Computing
World Sugar History Group