Nancy Wingfield
@nmw1.bsky.social
Habsburg historian, occasionally, some Successor States; fan of cats, good coffee, wine, the Austrian Riviera, NYC, Paris, Prague, & Vienna. Under contract to write a book that stubbornly refuses to write itself. I've been awarded a medal!
Winner of the 2025 CAS Biannual Book Prize. Congratulations!
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Winner of the 2025 CAS Biannual Book Prize. Congratulations!
Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
Will this KS GOP remove John Brown from the Topeka statehouse? 🙄
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Will this KS GOP remove John Brown from the Topeka statehouse? 🙄
When I first taught History of Gender & Sexuality, lo these many years ago, it was never the students who worried me. They advocated for the relevant program certificate. But, I suppose the course title was itself the trigger warning. Biggest challenge? Getting some to love _Imperial Leather_.
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
When I first taught History of Gender & Sexuality, lo these many years ago, it was never the students who worried me. They advocated for the relevant program certificate. But, I suppose the course title was itself the trigger warning. Biggest challenge? Getting some to love _Imperial Leather_.
Happy publication day!
August 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Happy publication day!
PSA: Historians of Habsburg Central Europe/adjacent spaces, if you write about modern nationalism, and haven't included Jeremy King's (2002) monograph or his pathbreaking chap., "The Nationalization of East Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond" (2001), perhaps, work on your geneology!
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
PSA: Historians of Habsburg Central Europe/adjacent spaces, if you write about modern nationalism, and haven't included Jeremy King's (2002) monograph or his pathbreaking chap., "The Nationalization of East Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond" (2001), perhaps, work on your geneology!
No excuse for not having read Brian Ladd's _The Ghosts of Berlin_ long since. Urban historian Alan Lessoff recommended it as an exemplar of urban histoy. He is so right. What a spectacular book. Perhaps, even worthy of the overused "brilliant" and "fantastic." Good covers, too.
August 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
No excuse for not having read Brian Ladd's _The Ghosts of Berlin_ long since. Urban historian Alan Lessoff recommended it as an exemplar of urban histoy. He is so right. What a spectacular book. Perhaps, even worthy of the overused "brilliant" and "fantastic." Good covers, too.
Alice Lovejoy's amazing new monograph is forthcoming from Cal Press in August. Another of her creative takes on culture & history.
April 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Alice Lovejoy's amazing new monograph is forthcoming from Cal Press in August. Another of her creative takes on culture & history.
Can't wait for this fascinating, well-written book to be available in early September. OUP has it at a v. good price for pre-orders. Not only the beautiful cover; all of the images are amazing. Cindy took many of the pictures.
April 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Can't wait for this fascinating, well-written book to be available in early September. OUP has it at a v. good price for pre-orders. Not only the beautiful cover; all of the images are amazing. Cindy took many of the pictures.
Excellent news for historians of gender & sexuality, modern Central Europe, the Holocaust, all of us, really: Robert Sommer's pathbreaking 2009 book on forced sexual labor in Nazi concentration camps, a classic in the field, has been translated into English & published by Fordham University Press.
April 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Excellent news for historians of gender & sexuality, modern Central Europe, the Holocaust, all of us, really: Robert Sommer's pathbreaking 2009 book on forced sexual labor in Nazi concentration camps, a classic in the field, has been translated into English & published by Fordham University Press.
Congratulations to the editors of/contributors to this volume, hot off the press. Good work!
April 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Congratulations to the editors of/contributors to this volume, hot off the press. Good work!
Good cover & very thoroughly researched. Useful book!
March 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good cover & very thoroughly researched. Useful book!
@fabianbaumann.bsky.social brought my attention to Olena Petrenko's monograph, which includes discussion of post-Habsburg Ukraine.
March 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@fabianbaumann.bsky.social brought my attention to Olena Petrenko's monograph, which includes discussion of post-Habsburg Ukraine.
So many books; so little time, until the end of the month, that is! From Mary Gluck, another important volume on Budapest.
And, the cover!!!
And, the cover!!!
March 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So many books; so little time, until the end of the month, that is! From Mary Gluck, another important volume on Budapest.
And, the cover!!!
And, the cover!!!
This classic, recently republished, also w/ a good cover Who doesn't love to read about Trieste?
March 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This classic, recently republished, also w/ a good cover Who doesn't love to read about Trieste?
Another great cover! This from Veronika Helfert
March 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Another great cover! This from Veronika Helfert
Lea Horvat's book also has a great cover. Yugoslavia's postwar architecture (Also, you might want to see "The Brutalist" if you haven't yet...)
March 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Lea Horvat's book also has a great cover. Yugoslavia's postwar architecture (Also, you might want to see "The Brutalist" if you haven't yet...)
Sarah Cramsey's recent book
March 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sarah Cramsey's recent book
The always fascinating work of Dominique Reill on one of the Adriatic's most interesting cities
March 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The always fascinating work of Dominique Reill on one of the Adriatic's most interesting cities
