Dr Thomas Ort has joined the faculty as an assistant professor of East European history.
Thomas Ort has just joined the faculty for the 2011-12 academic year as an assistant professor of Eastern European history. He received his PhD in Modern European History in 2005 from New York University, with a specialization in the cultural and intellectual history of East-Central Europe. The main subject of his research is modernist and avant-garde life in early twentieth-century Czechoslovakia, but he is also interested in the politics of memory in postwar Eastern Europe. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, and an American Council for Learned Societies fellowship. His book, Karel Capek and his Generation: Culture and Politics in Modernist Prague, 1911-1938, is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. |
