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"Budapest: How LaGuardia Learned to Love a Jewish Metropolis"
Dominique K. Reill, University of Miami
This workshop will be offered in a hybrid format with attendees both in-person and online via Zoom. Registration is only required for those who attend virtually.
The pre-circulated paper will be available one-week prior to the workshop. The paper will be available to the Princeton University community via SharePoint. All others should request a copy of the paper by emailing Bennett A. Nagtegaal at [email protected].
Dominique Kirchner Reill is a Professor in History at the University of Miami and the Fulbright-IMéRA-Aix-Marseille Université Chair in Migration Studies. Her first book, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice, was published by Stanford University Press in 2012 and was awarded the Center for Austrian Studies’ Book Award and Honorable Mention from the Smith Award. Her next book, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire came out in 2020 with Harvard University’s Belknap Press and received an Honorable Mention from the Jelavich Book Prize. In Marseille she is working on her next manuscript “The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello LaGuardia,” while also serving as an editor for the Purdue University Press book series Central European Studies, an Executive member of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, a board member of the journal Contemporary European History, Vice-President Elect of the Central European History Society, and a member of the board of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies.