James Casteel
Associate Professor
| Degrees: | B.A. (Tulane University), M.A. (University of Chicago), Ph.D. (Rutgers University) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 1934 |
| Email: | james.casteel@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 3306 Richcraft Hall |
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 (杏吧原创 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盲t zu Berlin, the Universit盲t Hamburg, and the Johannes Gutenberg Universit盲t 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鈥檚 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.
Current Research Projects:
Post-Soviet Migrants and Changing Memory Regimes in Germany, 1987-2018
Current Areas of Teaching
- GINS 1000: Global History
- EURR 5201 / RELI 4850/5850: Religion, Migration, & Identity (Winter 2019)
- EURR 5010: Research Design and Methodology in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (team taught MA core course, Winter 2019)
- EURR 5001: Interdisciplinary Seminar in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (team taught MA core course, Fall 2018)
- EURR 1001: Introduction to European and Russian Studies (Fall 2018)
- EURR 4303/5303 / HIST 4606 Contemporary Europe: From Postwar to the E.U.
- EURR 4202/5202: Nazism and Stalinism (co-taught course with Jeff Sahadeo)
- RELI 聽3140 / HIST 3714: Holocaust Encounters
- RELI 3141 / HIST 3718: Germans and Jews
Selected Publication relating to European, Russian and Eurasian Studies:
Books:
- (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
- Short-Listed for Council for European Studies Book Award 2018
Journal articles and book chapters:
- 鈥淭ranscultural Memories among Russian German and Russian Jewish Migrants in Germany: Literature, Museums, and Narrations of the Soviet Past.鈥� In:聽聽edited by Victor D枚nninghaus, Jannis Panagiotidis, & Hans-Christian Petersen, 179-204. Oldenbourg: DeGruyter, 2018.
- 鈥�,鈥� Cultural and Social History 11, no. 2 (Spring 2015), 255-272.
- 鈥�,鈥� First World War Studies 5, no. 3 (2014), 287-304.
- 鈥�,鈥� The Nation State & Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, ed. Roland Wenzelhuemer and Isabel Loehr, Transcultural Research. Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2013), 209-233.
- 鈥�,鈥� Transnational Europe: Problems, Paradox, Limits, ed. Achim Hurrelmann and Joan DeBardeleben (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,聽 2011), 153-169.
- 鈥�,鈥� in Mathias Schulze, et. al., eds. German Diasporic聽 Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), 117-130
- 鈥�,鈥� Central European History, 40, no. 3 (2007), 429-466.
Recent Papers Presented (selected):
- 鈥淢igrants and Memory Politics: Russian-German and聽Russian-Jewish Commemorative Narratives and Responses to Refugees in聽Contemporary聽Germany,鈥� German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September聽27-30, 2018.
- 鈥淧ost-Soviet Migrants, Memory Politics, and Responses to Refugees in聽Germany,鈥� 23rd聽Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of聽Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, NY, May 3-5, 2018.
- 鈥淭ranscultural Memories and Diasporic Identities among Russian German and Jewish Migrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany,鈥� for international conference 鈥淩ussian Germans in a Comparative Context: New Research Perspectives,鈥� Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans from Eastern Europe, Berlin, Germany, November 18-19, 2015.
- 鈥淩emembering the Soviet Union: Jewish and German Post-Soviet Migrants to Germany,鈥� Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, November 20-23, 2014.
- 鈥淧ost-Soviet Migration and Changing Memory Regimes in Germany: Narratives of Soviet Times among Jewish Quota Refugees and ethnic German Aussiedler,鈥� for international conference Post-Soviet Diasporas: Identity Construction, Linkages and Transformation, 杏吧原创 University, March 20-21, 2014
- 鈥漇iberia: the Far Eastern Front of Germany鈥檚 Imperial Imaginary鈥� for seminar 鈥淣ot So Quiet on the Eastern Front: New Directions in World War I Studies,鈥� German Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, October 3-6, 2013.
- 鈥淐olonizing the Wilderness: Siberia in Interwar German Captivity Narratives鈥� part of panel 鈥淏etween Germany and Russia: History, Music, Literature, and the Construction of Cultural Myth in the Early Twentieth Century,鈥� German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 4-7, 2012.