{"id":5218,"date":"2019-09-13T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/?post_type=cu-people&p=5218"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:57:40","slug":"james-casteel-associate-professor-modern-and-contemporary-european-history","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/people\/james-casteel-associate-professor-modern-and-contemporary-european-history\/","title":{"rendered":"James Casteel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Casteel is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe and is cross-appointed between the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Bachelor of Global and International Studies in Kroeger College. He currently serves as Program Director for Migration and Diaspora Studies and as Co-Undergraduate Supervisor of EURUS (together with Professor Martin Geiger). He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies (Carleton University Research Centre). Professor Casteel holds a B.A. in German and Philosophy from Tulane University (1994), an M.A. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago (1997) and a Ph.D. in modern European history from Rutgers University (2005). He spent significant time studying in Germany at the Humboldt Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, the Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, and the Johannes Gutenberg Universit\u00e4t Mainz. He has held fellowships from Fulbright and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Research Interests Relates to European, Russian and Eurasian Studies:Professor Casteel\u2019s research interests include transnational relations between Germany and Russia from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, nations and empires in central and eastern Europe, diasporic cultures and belonging, European Jewish history including the Holocaust, and transnational and global approaches to the European past.<\/p>\n

Current Research Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post-Soviet Migrants and Changing Memory Regimes in Germany, 1987-2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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