Paul Miller-Melamed Ph.D.

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I teach modern European history, from the “age of enlightenment/progress” in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the “barbaric era” of two world wars, holocaust, and a divided continent in the twentieth. In graduate school at Yale (1989-1995), I wrote a dissertation on the antimilitarist activities of the French left in the decades before the First World War (“From Revolutionaries to Citizens,” Duke University Press, 2002). From 1996-1999, I was editor of the academic journal “Holocaust and Genocide Studies” at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where I also became involved with a documentary film on the bombing of Auschwitz controversy (“They Looked Away,” 2003; narrated by Mike Wallace).

Since then, my interests have expanded into the fields of history and memory, ethnic cleansing/genocide, the Yugoslav wars of secession, and the origins of World War I. I recently co-edited a book (with Claire Morelon) entitled “Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918 (Berghahn, 2019/2021). In June 2022, I will publish the book “Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I” (Oxford University Press). Related to these projects, I have published articles in such venues as “Austria History Yearbook,” “Central Europe,” “The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies,” “Historical Reflections,” the ‘Made by History’ section of “The Washington Post,” and the “New York Times.” I am always eager to involve students with my research!