Professor of History
Director, Center for Austrian Studies
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
314 Social Sciences Building,
267 19th Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: 612-624-9811, Fax: 612-626-9004

Professor Emeritus of History
University of Oklahoma
455 W. Lindsey St., Rm. 403A
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-0535
tel. (405) 325-6002  (History office)
FAX: (405) 325-4503

E-MAIL:  gcohen@tc.umn.edu

       Prof. Cohen's research has focused on social development, ethnic group relations, and
education in modern Austria and the Czech lands. His publications include two books, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue University Press, 1996); articles in The Journal of Modern History, Central European History, The Austrian History Yearbook, The East European Quarterly, Jewish History, and The Social Science Quarterly; and numerous book chapters.

       Prof. Cohen's scholarship has earned national and international recognition. Grants from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the United States Department of Education, and the University of Oklahoma Research Council have supported his research. He served on the national selection committee for East European exchange fellowships of the International Research and Exchanges Board in 1984-86, and during the late 1980s was the only participant from the United States in the European Science Foundation's project on "Governments and Non-Dominant Ethnic Groups in Europe, 1850-1940." Prof. Cohen has served on the advisory board of The Austrian History Yearbook and was the executive secretary of the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History in 2000 and 2001.  In August 2001, he retired from the University of Oklahoma faculty after twenty-five years of service and assumed a new position as director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

B. A., University of Southern California (history) summa cum laude, 1970
M. A., Princeton University (history), 1972
Ph.D., Princeton University (history), 1975
 

ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION:

Modern European Social History
Eastern Europe, 1740-1939
Social and Political History of Austria and Germany, 1790-1939
 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

Assistant in Instruction, Princeton University, Spring 1974
Instructor, Princeton University, 1974-1976
Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, 1976-1982
Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, 1982-1995
Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, 1995-2001 (Secondary appointments:
      Director of Russian Studies, 1984-1996; Professor of Women's Studies)
Director, International Academic Programs, University of Oklahoma, 1996-2001
Director, Center for Austrian Studies, and Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,
      2001-
 

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (Princeton University Press,
       1981)  [published in Czech translation as Nemci v Praze, 1861-1914 (Karolinum--The Charles
       University Press,  Prague, 2000)]
Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue University
       Press, 1996)
 

Articles and Chapters:

"Jews in German Society: Prague, 1860-1914," Central European History X (1977), pp. 28-54; [reprinted in David Bronsen, ed., Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933: The Problematic Symbiosis (Heidelberg, 1979), pp. 306-337].

"Recent Research on Czech Nation-Building," The Journal of Modern History LI (December 1979), pp. 760-772.

"Ethnicity and Urban Population Growth: The Decline of the Prague Germans," Studies in East European Social History, Keith Hitchins, ed., II (1981), pp. 3-26.

"Liberal Associations and Central European Urban Society, 1840-1890," The Maryland Historian XII, No. 1 (198l), pp. 1-11.

"Ethnic Persistence and Change: Concepts and Models for Historical Research," Social Science Quarterly LXV, No. 4 (December 1984), pp. 1029-1042.

"Jews in German Liberal Politics: Prague, 1860-1914," Jewish History I, No. 1 (Spring 1986), pp. 55-74.

"Society and Culture in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in the Late Nineteenth Century," The East European Quarterly XX, No. 4, (January 1987), pp. 467-484 [Revised version: "The Social Structure of Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in the Late Nineteenth Century," in György Ránki, ed., Hungary and European Civilization (Budapest, 1989), pp. 181-99].

"Die Studenten der Wiener Universität, 1860 bis 1900: Ein soziales und geographisches Profil," in Richard Georg Plaschka and Karlheinz Mack, eds., Wegenetz europäischen Geistes, II: Universitäten und Studenten (Vienna, 1987), pp. 290-316.

"Education and Czech Social Structure in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Hans Lemberg, K. Litsch, R. G. Plaschka, and G. Ránki, eds., Bildungsgeschichte, Bevölkerungsgeschichte, Gesellschaftsgeschichte in den böhmischen Ländern und in Europa: Festschrift für Jan Havránek (Vienna and Munich, l988), pp. 32-45.

"Jews among Vienna's Educated Middle-Class Elements at the Turn of the Century," in Yehuda Don and Victor Karady, eds., A Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry (New Brunswick, N.J., 1990), pp. 179-89.

"Education, Social Mobility, and the Austrian Jews 1860-1910," in Victor Karady and Wolfgang Mitter, eds., Bildungswesen und Sozialstruktur in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [Studien und Dokumentation zur vergleichenden Bildungsforschung, v. 42] (Cologne and Vienna, 1990), pp. 141-61.

"European Urban Ethnic Minorities and Economic Development (1850-1940):  Some Comparative Observations," in Proceedings of the Tenth International Economic History Congress, Leuven, August 1990, Session B-5: Ethnic Minority Groups in Town and Countryside and their Effects on Economic Development (1850-1940) (Leuven, 1990), pp. 125-36.

"The German Minority of Prague, 1850-1918," in Max Engman, ed., Ethnic Identity in Urban Europe (Aldershot and New York, 1992), pp. 267-93.

"Organisational Patterns of the Urban Ethnic Groups," in M. Engman, ed., Ethnic Identity in Urban Europe (1992), pp. 407-18.

"Ideals and Reality in the Austrian Universities, 1850-1914," in Michael S. Roth, ed., Rediscovering History: Politics, Culture and the Psyche (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 83-101, 454-58.

"The Politics of Access to Advanced Education in Late Imperial Austria," in Russian in Avstro-Vengriia: Opyt mnogonatsional'nogo gosudarstva, ed. T. M. Islamov and A. I. Miller (Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, l995), pp. 155-199 (also available in English as Working Paper in Austrian Studies, no. 93-6, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Sept. 1993, 42 pp.).

"Deutsche, Juden und Tschechen in Prag: das Sozialleben des Alltags, 1890-1924," Allemands, Juifs et Tcheques à Prague--Deutsche, Juden und Tschechen in Prag, 1890-1924, edited by Maurice Godé, J. Le Rider, F. Mayer (Montpellier: Université Paul-Valéry, 1996, pp. 55-69 [Published in Czech as "Nemci, zidé a ceši v Praze: Spolecenský zivot všedního dne 1890-1914," Dejiny a souasnost, 20, no. 4 (1998), pp. 29-35].

"Neither Absolutism nor Anarchy:  New Narratives on Society and Government in Late Imperial
Austria," Austrian History Yearbook, 29, pt. 1 (1998), pp. 37-61.
 

Papers Read:

"Jews in German Society: The Case of Prague," symposium at Washington University, St. Louis, April 1976

"Czech Nation-Building, 1861-1914: Fragmentation as the Price of Success," American Historical Association, 1977 Annual Meeting, Dallas

"Group Solidarity and Social Cleavage: German Associations in Prague, 1860-1890," American Historical Association, 1980 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

"Ethnic Persistence: Some Comparative and Historical Reflections," Southwest Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Houston, March 1983

"The Students of the Vienna University, 1860-1900: A Social and Geographical Profile," International Conference on "Universities and Students," Austrian Institute for Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Vienna, September 1983

"The Jewish Role in Prague's German Politics, 1861-1914," American Historical Association, 1984 Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 1984

"Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Caveat on Comparisons," International Conference on "Hungary and European Civilization," Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1985

"Jews in German Liberal Politics: Prague," and a comment, International Conference on "Issues of Contemporary Central European Jewry," Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, August 1985

"Secondary and Higher Education for Czechs in the Late Nineteenth Century," Central Slavic Studies Conference, Oklahoma State University, October 1985

"The German Minority of Prague in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," Meeting of the Urban Sub-group of the European Science Foundation Project, "Comparative Studies on Governments and Non-Dominant Ethnic Groups," Trieste, Italy, April 1986

"Education and Czech Social Structure in the Late Nineteenth Century," International Workshop on "Socio-historical Aspects of Modern Central European Schooling," Institute for the Humanities, Vienna, Austria, October 1987

"Education, Social Mobility, and the Austrian Jews, 1860-1910, Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Meeting, Boston," December 1987

"The Social Structure of University Students in Austria and Germany, 1860-1910," German Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, October 1989

"Nationality and Education: Czechs, Germans, and Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1860-1910," meeting of the Czech-German Joint Historical Commission, Bad Homburg, Germany, March 1990

"European Urban Ethnic Minorities and Economic Development, 1850-1940: Some Comparative Observations," International Economic History Congress, Leuven, Belgium, August 1990

"The Social Origins of the Czech Educated Elements, 1860-1910," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, National Convention, Washington, D. C., October 1990

"Human Rights and National Interests: The Moral Dilemmas of Modern Czech Nationalism," conference on "Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Wake of Humanism," Scripps College and The Claremont Graduate Humanities Center, Claremont, California, April 1993

"The Politics of Access to Advanced Education in Late Imperial Austria," International conference on "Austria-Hungary: Problems of a Multinational State," Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 1993.

"Deutsche, Juden und Tschechen in Prag: Das Sozialleben des Alltags, 1890-1914," International Colloquium, "Allemands, Juifs et Tchèques à Prague," Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, December 1994

"Ambiguous Identities: German Minorities in East-central Europe, 1848-1945,"  Eighteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal, Canada, August 1995

"The Advance of Modern Political Life in Imperial Austria, 1890-1914," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, November 1996

"Educational Development and the Erosion of German Privilege in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918," Annual Symposium on Habsburg History, Woodrow Wilson Center/George Washington University, Washington, D.C., April 1997
 

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS:

Danforth Graduate Fellowship, 1970-1975
IREX Exchange Fellow to Czechoslovakia, 1972-1973
Shelby Cullom Davis Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, Princeton University, Fall 1978
ACLS Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1981
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant (U. S. Department of Education), January-July
       1982
IREX Exchange Fellow to Czechoslovakia, January-May 1982
American Philosophical Society Research Travel Grant, Fall 1983
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, May-July 1985
University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Summer Fellowship, Summer 1985
University of Oklahoma Senior Faculty Research Fellowship, Summer 1990
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, Summer 1996
IREX Exchange Fellow to the Czech Republic, May-July 1997
 

COURSES TAUGHT:

Assisted at Princeton:
   History 211:  Europe, 1450-1750
              212:  Europe since 1750
              357:  The Modernization of Russia
              365:  Twentieth-Century Europe
              369:  Modern Britain

Lectured or directed at Oklahoma:
   History 1233:  Europe since 1815
              3120:  European Jews from Ghetto to Modernity
              3173:  The Emergence of Modern European Society, 1815-1870
              3183:  Europe in the Age of Imperialism, 1870-1914
              3763:  Eastern Europe since 1938
              3833:  Nation-Building in East-Central Europe, 1790-1939
              3943:  European Fascism
              4973:  Work, Women, and the Family in Modern Europe (Senior Seminar)
              4973:  Contemporary Poland (Senior Seminar)
              6200:  Graduate Reading Seminar:  Europe since 1815
              6200:  Seminar:  Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century  (overseas advanced
                                 program)
   Honors 3993:  Colloquium: The Fall of East European Communism
   Non-credit short course:  "European Jews from Ghetto to Auschwitz"
 

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Member, University of Oklahoma Committee for Social Science Teacher Certification,
          1979-1984
Treasurer, American Association of University Professors, Oklahoma State Conference,
         1980-1981
Member, Test Development Committee for Advanced Placement in European History, College
         Entrance Examination Board/E.T.S., 1983-1985
Member, National Selection Committee for East European Research Exchanges, International
         Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), 1984-1986
Member, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Tenure Committee, 1984-1987
Member, OU College of Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, 1984-1987
Member, Jury for the Conference Group for Central European History Book Prize, 1986
Executive Committee, OU Norman Campus Faculty Senate, 1986-1988
Chair-elect, OU Norman Campus Faculty Senate, 1987-1988
Chair, OU Norman Campus Faculty Senate, 1988-1989
At-large council member, Czechoslovak History Conference, 1988-1989
Book review editor, Austrian History Yearbook, 1989-92
Treasurer, Alpha Chapter of Oklahoma, Phi Beta Kappa, 1990-93
Member, OU Council on Campus Life, 1991-94 (Chair, 1993-94)
Chapter President, Phi Kappa Phi, University of Oklahoma, 1994-95
Member, Advisory Board, Austrian History Yearbook, 1996-2001
Member, Executive Committee, Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, 1998-
Executive Secretary, Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, 2000-2001