Chapters & Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • “The Christ of Empires: German Veneration of Austria-Hungary in the First World War.” (In Preparation).

  • “Feldgrau Golems and Infernal Warlords: Combat, Morale, and Memory in Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front.” In Screening War: Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front in Context. (Berlin, de Gruyter)(Revised and Resubmitted)

  • “German Tanks in Ukraine: Memory and the Making of German Strategic Culture.” In Learning with theGermans: Cultures of Memory, Amnesia & Misprision (Revised and Resubmitted)

  • “Incurable Megalomania” and “Fantasies of Expansion”: The German Army Reimagines Empire in Occupied-Poland, 1915-1918.” Central European History 54, no. 4 (2021) doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000017

    • Abstract Available HERE.

    • Article Available Here.

  • “What Did Paul Rohrbach Actually Learn in Africa?: The Influence of Colonial Experience on a Publicist’s Imperial Fantasies in Eastern Europe.” German History 38, no. 2 (2020) doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghaa013

  • “Designing Empire for the Civilized East: Colonialism, Polish Nationhood, and German War Aims in the First World War.” Nationalities Papers(May 2019), 1-17. doi: 10.1017/nps.2018.49

    • Awarded the Huttenbach Prize for the best article published in Nationalities Papers in the course of the Previous year, 2020.

    • Abstract and Link Available Here.

Other Publications

Selected Conference Papers & Presentations

  • “Germany Learned the Wrong Lessons from WWI… and so have we all.” Invited talk at Transatlantic Memory Cultures: Comparative Perspectives on Commemorating Genocide, Racism, and Slavery. Universität Duisburg-Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 1 April 2025.

  • “Narratives of Pathology and Germany’s Strategic Culture.” Invited talk at Transatlantic Memory Cultures: Comparative Perspectives on Commemorating Genocide, Racism, and Slavery. Universität Duisburg-Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 31 March 2025.

  • “To Renew the Empire: Multinational Imperialists Challenge Germanization.” Invited Work-in-Progress Talk, History Graduate Student Association, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 14 November 2024.

  • “The ‘German-Polish Ausgleich’: The Rise and Fall of Germany’s Multinational Empire.” Germanic, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies Work-in-Progress Talk, Notre Dame, IN, 11 October 2024.

  • “German Tanks in Ukraine: Memory and the Making of German Strategic Culture.” Paper presented at Learning with the Germans: Cultures of Memory, Amnesia & Misprision, Notre Dame, IN, 3 April 2024.

  • “Monolith or Mosaic?: German Perceptions of Eastern Europe and Imperial Planning in the First World War.” Paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Montréal, Canada, 5-8 October 2023.

  • “Fabricating the Nation: German Narratives of Imperial Collapse in Occupied Congress Poland.” Paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2 October 2021.

  • “The Christ of Empires: German Veneration of Austria-Hungary in the First World War.” Invited Talk. Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Notre Dame, IN, 13 October 2020.

    • ABSTRACT AVAILABLE HERE.

  • “From Compromise to Coercion: Occupied Poland, the German Officer Corps, and the Transformation of German Imperialism in WWI.” Paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR, 6 October 2019.

    • Abstract Available Here.

  • “Before Lebensraum Meant Genocide: Autarky, Ethnic Diversity, and German Imperialism in WWI.” Invited Talk. Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Notre Dame, IN, 25 September 2019.

    • Abstract Available Here.

    • Poster Available Here.

  • “When Paramilitarism Became a Threat: Readings of Polish Nationalism and German Occupation Policy in WWI.” Paper presented at The Many Faces of War: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Experience and Impact of War throughout History. South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD. 19 September 2018.

    • Abstract Available Here.

  • “A Nation of Barbarians, or Barbarians against Nations: German Depictions of Russian Barbarism in the First World War.” Paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, 7 October 2017.

    • Abstract Available Here.