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He is currently serving as Director and Graduate Supervisor for EURUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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). &nbsp;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.&nbsp; He has held fellowships and grants from Fulbright, the Rutgers Centre for Historical Analysis, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin and the Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg. From January 2019-December 2022 he served as the founding Program Director for the MA and Graduate Diploma programs in <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/\">Migration and Diaspora Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests Relates to European, Russian and Eurasian Studies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. His current research focuses on post-Soviet migrants in Germany (mostly Jews and ethnic Germans from the countries of the former Soviet Union) and issues of memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Research Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Post-Soviet Migrants and Changing Memory Regimes in Germany, 1987-2018 (funded by SSHRC Insight Grant)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Teaching 2025-2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fall 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>EURR 5001A\/B \u201cInterdisciplinary Seminar in European and Russian Studies (co-taught with Paul Goode)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 4204\/5204\/HIST 4604\/5604 Central Europe: Past and Present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>EURR 5010A\/B EURR 5010A\/B Research Design and Methodology in Europe, Russia, and Eurasian Studies (co-taught with Paul Goode)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Courses taught (selected)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>EURR 1000 Introduction to European, Russian and Eurasian Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 4201\/5201\/MGDS 5002 Migration and Muticulturalism in Europe and Eurasia,1945 to present (co-taught with Jeff Sahadeo)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 5001A\/B \u201cInterdisciplinary Seminar in European and Russian Studies (team taught course)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 5010A\/B Research Design and Methodology in Europe, Russia, and Eurasian Studies (team taught course)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MGDS 5001 Introduction to Migration and Diaspora Studies (co-taught with Blair Rutherford)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MGDS 5010 Research Seminar in Migration and Diaspora Studies (co-taught with Blair Rutherford)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 4202\/5202 Nazism and Stalinism (co-taught with Jeff Sahadeo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Publication relating to European, Russian and Eurasian Studies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Books:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/upittpress.org\/books\/9780822964117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russia in the German Global Imaginary: Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941<\/a><\/em> (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Short-Listed for Council for European Studies Book Award 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Journal articles and book chapters:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Russian German History as Global History: Beyond Ethnonational Frames.&#8221; In: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781666911718\/Russian-Germans-on-Four-Continents-Histories-of-a-Global-Diaspora\">Russian Germans on Four Continents: Histories of a Global Diaspora<\/a>, <\/em>ed. Anna Flack, Jan Musekamp, Jannis Panagiotidis, and Hans-Christian Petersen (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cTranscultural Memories among Russian German and Russian Jewish Migrants in Germany: Literature, Museums, and Narrations of the Soviet Past,\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/isbn\/9783110501414\/html\"><em>Jenseits der\u00a0\u201cVolksgruppe.\u201d Neue Perspektiven auf die Russlanddeutschen zwischen Russland, Deutschland und Amerika<\/em>,<\/a> ed. Victor D\u00f6nninghaus, Jannis Panagiotidis, &amp; Hans-Christian Petersen (Oldenbourg: DeGruyter, 2018),\u00a0179-204.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.2752\/147800415X14224554625316#.VXXp3GCpr8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Searching for the \u2018New World,\u2019 Finding \u2018Asia\u2019: The Rhetoric of Colonization in Interwar German Travellers\u2019 Accounts of the Soviet Union<\/a>,\u201d <i>Cultural and Social History<\/i> 11, no. 2 (Spring 2015), 255-272.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/19475020.2014.999813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Romance of Siberian Captivity: German POWs of the First World War in Friede H. Kraze\u2019s Interwar Novel <i>The Magical Forests<\/i><\/a>,\u201d <i>First World War Studies<\/i> 5, no. 3 (2014), 287-304.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/social+sciences\/book\/978-3-642-32933-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On the Civilizing Mission of the Global Economy: German Observers of the Colonization and Development of Siberia, 1900-1918<\/a>,\u201d in <em>The Nation State &amp; Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century<\/em>, ed. Roland Wenzelhuemer and Isabel Loehr, <em>Transcultural Research. Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context<\/em> (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2013), 209-233.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1057\/9780230306370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Historicizing the Nation: Transnational Approaches to the Recent European Past<\/a>,\u201d in <em>Transnational Europe: Problems, Paradox, Limits<\/em>, ed. Achim Hurrelmann and Joan DeBardeleben (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,\u00a0 2011), 153-169.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlupress.wlu.ca\/Books\/G\/German-Diasporic-Experiences\">The Politics of Diaspora: Russian German \u00c9migr\u00e9 Activists in Interwar Germany<\/a>,\u201d in <em>German Diasporic\u00a0 Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss, ed. <\/em>Mathias Schulze, et. al. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), 117-130.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=1300404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Russian Germans in the Interwar German National Imaginary<\/a>,\u201d <em>Central European History<\/em>\u00a040, no. 3 (2007), 429-466.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Papers Presented (selected):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Entangled Histories of Decolonization: Post-Soviet Migrants and Memory Cultures in Germany&#8221;, German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, September 26-29, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPost-Soviet Migrants and Transcultural Memories in Germany,\u201d Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities 2023 World Convention, New York, NY, May 18-20, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDecolonizations, Legacies of Empires, and Migrations in German Histories: Post-Soviet Perspectives.\u201d Montreal Central European Studies Workshop, March 9-10, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cRussian German History as Global History: Beyond Ethnonational Frames,\u201d International Conference \u201cRussian Germans on Four Continents: Global History and Present,\u201d Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabr\u00fcck, Germany (conference held virtually due to COVID-19). November 10-12, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cMigrant Memories: Narrating Post-Soviet Migration in Germany\u201c German Studies Association (conference held virtually due to COVID-19), October 1-3, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cNarratives of Victimization among Post-Soviet Migrants in Germany,\u201d International Conference on \u201cNarratives of Forced Migration in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,\u201d University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K, September 16-18, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cMigration and Transformation of Berlin\u2019s Jewish Community: from Postwar to Post-Soviet,\u201d Leo Baeck Summer University, July 9, 2019 (invited lecture).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPost-Soviet Migrant Memories: Russian-Jewish and Russian-German Commemorative Narratives in Germany\u201d, Selma-Stern Zentrum f\u00fcr J\u00fcdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg (Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg), June 6, 2019 (invited lecture).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPost-Soviet Migrants, Memory Politics, and Responses to Refugees in\u00a0Germany,\u201d 23rd\u00a0Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of\u00a0Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY, May 3-5, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cTranscultural Memories and Diasporic Identities among Russian German and Jewish Migrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany,\u201d for international conference \u201cRussian Germans in a Comparative Context: New Research Perspectives,\u201d Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans from Eastern Europe, Berlin, Germany, November 18-19, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13069,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"James","cu_people_last_name":"Casteel","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[15],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1057","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"EURUS Director & Graduate Supervisor, Associate Professor \u2013 Modern and Contemporary European History","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (Rutgers University), M.A. (University of Chicago), B.A. (Tulane University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"james.casteel@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"1934","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15507,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1057\/revisions\/15507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}