Associate Professor Elizabeth Bright Jones Clark B-343 970-491-6853 Elizabeth.Jones@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Modern German History, University of Minnesota, 2000
M.A. German Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1987
B.A. History and German Studies, Mount Holyoke College, 1985

Current Research Interests:

The Settlement Imagination: Internal Colonization in Germany, 1867-1933, a study of internal colonization experiments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany, with emphasis on regional, gender, and environmental perspectives.

Courses:

European Society in the Industrial Age, 1750-1870 (pt. 1); 1870-present (pt. 2)          
Peasant Protest in Modern Europe, 1500-1900
Modern European Gender History
Social History of WWI 
History of Germany from Napoleon to 1918
History of Germany from 1918-1989
Graduate Reading and Research Seminars in Modern European History, post 1815
World History Survey, 1500-present

Major Publications:

• Gender and Rural Modernity: Farm Women and the Politics of Labour in Germany, 1871-1933 (forthcoming, Ashgate Series in Labour History, 2008)

• “Landwirtschaftliche Arbeit und weibliche Körper in Deutschland, 1918-1933,” [Agricultural Work and Women’s Bodies in Germany, 1918-1933] in Ort. Arbeit. Körper: Ethnographie Europäischer Modernen, ed. B. Binder, S. Göttsch, W. Kaschuba, K. Vanja (Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2005), 477-84.

• “Pre- and Postwar Generations of Rural Female Youth and the Future of the German Nation, 1871-1933,” Continuity and Change 19, no. 3 (Cambridge, 2004): 1-19.

• “Girls in Court: Mägde versus their Employers in Saxony, 1880-1914,” in Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960, ed. M.J. Maynes, C. Benninghaus, and B. Soland (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 224-38.

• “A New Stage of Life?: Young Women’s Changing Expectations and Aspirations about Work in Weimar Saxony, German History 19, no. 4 (2001): 549-70.

• “The Gendering of the Postwar Agricultural Labor Shortage in Saxony, 1918-1925" Central European History 32, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 311-29.

 

Fellowships/Major Grants:

• German Academic Exchange Service Faculty Research Grant, Berlin, Fall 2006
• Colorado State University Academic Enrichment Grant, Spring 2006
• German Academic Exchange Service Post-Doctoral Research Grant, Summer 2000
• Fulbright Fellowship, Leipzig and Dresden, 1994-95
• Council of European Studies Research Grant, 1993

 

Professional Service:

• Associate Editor, Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies, 2005 - present