Dr Julie Thorpe

Deputy Director, National Europe Centre

T: ( 02 ) 6125 2613

E: julie.thorpe@anu.edu.au

National Europe Centre
Research School of Humanities
College of Arts and Social Sciences

Qualifications:

BA (Hons); PhD, University of Adelaide

Short biography:

Dr Julie Thorpe received her PhD from the University of Adelaide in February 2007. She was a Visiting Scholar at the National Europe Centre from February to June 2007 and from July to December 2007 she was an Associate Lecturer in the ANU’s School of Social Sciences in Faculty of Arts. In 2008 Dr Thorpe had visiting teaching appointments at the University of Adelaide and the ANU and she will take up a joint post-doctoral fellowship at the ANU and University of Konstanz in 2009.

Research Interests:

19th and 20th Central European history, nationalism, political culture and fascism in Austria

Current Research Projects:

Wartime refugees in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in WWI; currently working on manuscript for Manchester University Press on nationalism in the Austrofascist state (1933-1938).

Selected Publications:

Chapters in books

2006

‘Minorities, Migrants and Refugees: Crossing the Border(s) of Pan-German Identity in Austria, 1933-1938,’ in Madeleine Hurd (ed.), Borderland Identities: Territory and Belonging in North, Central and East Europe (Eslöv: Gondolin, 2006), pp. 445-480.

‘Population Policy in the Austrofascist state’, in Humanities Research Journal, Thematic Issue on Diversity, Integration, Citizenship

‘Provincials Imagining the Nation: Pan-German Identity in Salzburg, 1933-1938’, Zeitgeschichte, vol. 33, no. 4 (2006), pp. 179-198.

Disciplines:

History, European studies

Teaching:

19th and 20th century European history; history of empires and nation-states in central, eastern and southeastern Europe.

Conferences:

‘Nationalising political cultures in the First Austrian Republic and the Austrofascist State,’ Paper Title in Panel on Politics, Empire and Nation-Building in Central Europe: From the Habsburg Monarchy to the Austrofascist State, 1861-1938

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, January 2009

‘Multiethnicity in Vienna and Graz during World War One’

Herder Institute Summer Academy: Multiethnizität im Lokalen Raum: Europäische Städte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert im Vergleich

Marburg, Germany, August 2007

‘Political Culture and Cultural Politics in the Austrofascist State, 1934-1938’

Workshop on Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Central and South East Europe, 1850-1950

Centre for Advanced Studies and Bulgarian Academy of Social Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2007

‘Refugees in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War One’

Refugees and the End of Empire Conference

De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, June 2007