Department of History: Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Katherine B. Aaslestad
Katherine Aaslestad

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign , IL, 1997

Master of Arts in History, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, 1987

Major Field: Modern European History.

Minor Fields: German History, International Affairs, Russian History.

Bachelor of Arts in History Mary Washington College , Fredericksburg , VA , Magna Cum Laude and Final Honors, 1985

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, New York, NY.

Teaching Certificate in Graham Technique, Apprentice for Graham Dance Company, 1983-1985.

Teaching Fields:

Modern German History

Nineteenth Century Europe

Gender and Family in Modern Europe

Modern Europe Graduate Readings

Western Civilization, part II.

Research Fields:

Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Germany

Napoleonic Wars

German Enlightment

European Nationalism and State-Building

Urban and Civic Culture

Gender and Consumer Culture

Publications:

Book
Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era, Studies in Central European Histories Series (Leiden: Brill, 2005)

Articles

"The Continental System Revisited and Imperial Exploitation" in Napoleon and the Empire, edited by Philip Dwyer and Alan Forrest (Palgrave, 2007) 114-132.

"'No Relationship Aside From Work:' Domestic Servants and Prosperous Households in Early Nineteenth-Century Hamburg," in Reichtum und Sparsamkeit. Paradoxien in der Buergerkultur Hamburgs 1700-1900/Wealth and Thrift. Paradoxes of Buerger Culture in Hamburg , 1700-1900, edited by Frank Hatje and Ann LeBar (Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, forthcoming, 2006).

"Sitten und Mode, Fashion, Gender, and Public Identities in Hamburg ," in Gender in Transition: Breaks, and Continuities in German-Speaking Europe, 1750-1830, edited by Marion Gray and Ulrike Gleixner ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), 282-318.

"Krieg und Identitat in Hamburg: 1806, Wirtschaftskrieg und moderner hanseatischer Regionalismus," Hamburg Wirtschafts-Chronik, Band 6 (2006), 45-75.

"Paying for War: Experiences of Napaleonic Rule in the Hanseatic Cities," Central European History, December 2006, 39/4, 641-675.

"1806 and its Aftermath: Revisiting the Period of Napoleonic Wars in German Central European Historiography," (co-authored with Karen Hagemann), Central European History, December 2006, 39/4, 547-579.

"Remembering and Forgetting: the Local and the Nation in Hamburg's Commemorations of the Wars of Liberation," Central European History, vol. 38, No. 3, 2005, 384-416.

"Old Visions and New Vices: Republicanism and Civic Virtue in Hamburg 's Print Culture, 1790-1810," in Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture: Public Culture in Hamburg , 1700-1933, edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl (Rodophi, 2003), 143-165.

"Material Identities: Tradition, Gender, and Consumption in Early Nineteenth Century Hamburg " in The Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Florida State University , 1998, 599-607.

"Virtue in the Public Sphere: Civic Identity in Hamburg , 1790-1806," in The Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Florida State University , 1995, 109-116.

Book Reviews published in such journals as German Studies Review, Journal of Social History, and Journal of Economic History, and H-German.

Works in Progress:
"Gender in Patriotic Rhetoric in North German Public Discourse, 1780-1815," European History Quarterly, 3/2007.

"The Experience of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare in Northern Europe," for War in the Age of Revolution, edited by Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, (forthcoming, Cambridge Press).

”Small Power Survival Strategies: Hamburg and the Great Powers, 1792-1815."

Other Web Sites
German Studies Page: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~german/

Spring 2008 Courses