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Professor Retallack teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in German and European History, 1740-1945. His research interests (1830-1918) include German regional history, nationalism, antisemitism, elections, and historiography. He is currently writing a biography of the German Social Democratic leader August Bebel. He published a revised and expanded second edition, Volume 4 of the online German History Documents and Images project for the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., which covers Bismarckian Germany from 1866 to 1890. Since his induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011, he has held grants and fellowships from various institutions, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Gerda Henkel Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. He has held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen, and he was a visiting scholar at Bergische Universität Wuppertal in 2014. Professor Retallack serves as the General Editor of the 'Oxford Studies in Modern European History' for Oxford University Press and the 'German European Studies' series for University of Toronto Press. His book, 'Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918', was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
University of Toronto • Toronto, ON
Teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in German and European History.
Department of Sociology