{"id":1057,"date":"2009-09-02T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T19:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?page_id=1057"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:14:13","slug":"casteel-james","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/people\/casteel-james\/","title":{"rendered":"James Casteel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Casteel is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe cross-appointed between the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies<\/a> (EURUS) and the Bachelor of Global and International Studies<\/a> in the College of Global Studies. He is currently serving as Director of the College of Global Studies and Program Director and Graduate Supervisor for EURUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00e4t zu Berlin, the Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, and the Johannes Gutenberg Universit\u00e4t Mainz.  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 Migration and Diaspora Studies<\/a> and he has been EURUS Director since 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests Relates to European, Russian and Eurasian Studies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Current Research Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Post-Soviet Migrants and Changing Memory Regimes in Germany, 1987-2018 (funded by SSHRC Insight Grant)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Current Teaching:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n