Andrea R. Orzoff
History Department MSC 3H 2265 Durango Court
New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88011
Las Cruces, NM 88003-3001 aorzoff@nmsu.edu
Office: 505.646.4612. Home: 505.523.9634.
EMPLOYMENT
· NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY, History Department
Associate Professor, 2008-present; Assistant Professor, 2002-2008; College Assistant Professor,
2000-2002; College Instructor, 1999-2000.
· STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Lecturer, History and Political Science, 1999.
EDUCATION
· STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D., Modern European History, 2000
M.A., Modern European History, 1995
Areas of concentration: modern and early modern Eastern Europe; modern Germany and Central
Europe; modern European intellectual history. Dissertation: “Battle for the Castle: The Friday
Men and the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1938.”
· NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
B.S.J., with distinction, 1991, Medill School of Journalism
Additional departmental major in English and American literature. Dean’s List.
PUBLICATIONS
· Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948. Forthcoming April
2009, Oxford University Press.
· “The Husbandman: The Interwar Personality Cult of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk,” Austrian History Yearbook 39 (2008): 121-137.
· “ ‘The Literary Organ of Politics’: Tomáš Masaryk and Political Journalism, 1925-1929,”
Slavic Review 63/2 (Summer 2004): 275-300.
· “The Empire Without Qualities: Austro-Hungarian Newspapers and the Outbreak of War in
1914,” in Troy Paddock, ed., A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and
Newspapers in the Great War, Praeger Press (2004): 161-198.
· “Prague P.E.N. and Cultural Nationalism, 1924-1938,” Nationalities Papers 29/2 (2001): 243-265.
WORK IN PROGRESS
· The PEN and the State: PEN International and Central Europe’s Cold War, 1945-1975: book
manuscript in progress.
· “Fiery-Eyed Moderates: The Complexities of Liberalism in Postwar Czechoslovakia,” article in
progress.
REVIEWS
· Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman, eds., Nations and Nationalism: A Reader (2005),
forthcoming in Political Studies Review.
· Patrick Collier, Modernism on Fleet Street (2006), forthcoming on J-History, H-Net
Reviews.
· Mark Cornwall and R.J.W. Evans, Czechoslovakia In a Nationalist and Fascist Europe,
1918-1948 (2007), forthcoming on HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews.
· John Rodden, Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity (2006),
forthcoming in German Studies Review.
· Peter Kenez, Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime
in Hungary, 1944-1948(2006), forthcoming in German Studies Review.
REVIEWS, continued
· Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur, eds., Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern
Europe (2006), forthcoming on H-Ideas, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
· Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei 1939-1945: Politischer Alltag zwischen
Kooperation und Eigensinn (2003), Austrian History Yearbook 39 (2008): 229.
· Karoline von Oppen, The Role of the Writer and the Press in the Unification of Germany, 1989-
1990 (2000), on J-History and H-German, H-Net Reviews, August 2006.
· Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdeněk Mlynář, Conversations with Gorbachev (2002), Ab
Imperio 4 (2005): 464-469.
· Radomir Luža, The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance (2002) The Historian 66/4:
882-883.
· Uta Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided
Germany (2000) in German Politics and Societies 17/3 (Fall 2001): 117-122.
· Ivan Berend, Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II (1998), in Austrian History Yearbook 33 (Summer 2001): 307-308.
· “Under the Red Star,” (review of Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague,
1941-1968), HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, June, 1998.
FELLOWSHIPS/HONORS
· Arts and Sciences Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award, New Mexico State University, 2008.
· National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award, fall semester 2005, fall
semester 2006.
· American Council of Learned Societies, East European Postdoctoral Fellowship, spring
semester 2005.
· Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Fellowship, Summer 2002.
· New Mexico State University Faculty Mini-Grant, July 2000.
· MacArthur Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University,
1998-1999.
· National Security Education Program Fellow, 1997-1998.
· American Council of Learned Societies, East European Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998.
· International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Independent Opportunity Research
Grant, 1996-1997. Awarded for doctoral dissertation research.
· Fulbright Student Fellowship, 1996-1997 (declined). Awarded for doctoral dissertation
research.
· ACLS Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, 1995. Awarded for research in the Czech Republic.
· ACLS East European Language Training Grant, 1994.
· History Department Fellowship, Stanford University, 1993-1997.
TRANSLATIONS
· Heda M. Kovaly, “In Conversation with One Eye Open,” Jedním okem/One Eye Open 2/2
(Summer 2002), Special Issue on Gender and Historical Memory. Co-translation with Marci Shore
and Elizabeth Papazian.
INVITED TALKS
“The Myth of the Golden Republic: Czechoslovak Myth and Propaganda, 1914-1948,” Harriman Institute,
Columbia University, New York, NY, September 19, 2008.
“’Pinhead Pacifists’ and Other Problems: Cultural Diplomacy in Interwar Central Europe,”
Center for European Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, September 17, 2008.
“Battle for the Castle: Czechoslovakia’s Difficulties Abroad,” East European and Slavic Reading Group, Yale University, New Haven, CT, September 15, 2008.
“The Myth of the Golden Republic: Czech Nationalism in the Twentieth Century,” Woodrow Wilson International Center, East European Studies Program, Noon Discussion Series, Washington, D.C., September 13, 2005.
“Philosopher-Kings and Technocrats: Intellectuals in Czech Politics,” Woodrow Wilson International Center, East European Studies Program, Noon Discussion Series, Washington, D.C. January 1999.
PAPERS PRESENTED
“Castle Intellectuals and the Crisis of the State, 1935-1938,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 2008.
“Hic Sunt Leones: Interwar Competitive Propaganda in Central Europe,” Czechoslovak Studies Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2008.
“Creating the Personality Cult of Tomáš Masaryk, 1914-1948,” Der Führer im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts: Forschungen zu Kult und Herrschaft der Führer-Regime in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa. Analysen, Konzepte, und Vergleiche, Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany, October 11-13, 2007.
“State Saint: The Interwar Personality Cult of Tomáš Masaryk,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., November, 2006.
“‘Immigrants and Colonists’? Or, How Czechoslovakia Mythologized Its Germans After 1918,” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September-October 2006.
“Teaching Borders” roundtable participant, Lineae Terrarum, University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University, and Colegio de la Frontera, Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, March 2006.
“Battle for the Castle: Competitive Propaganda in Interwar Eastern Europe,” Culture and International History III, Frankfurt, Germany, December 2005.
“The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation,” roundtable participant, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2005.
“Teaching Borders,” at Crossing Borders: A Conference on Histories, Theories, and Identities, University of Glamorgan, Wales, co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative European History, Freie Universität, Berlin, December 2004.
“Propaganda and European Identity in Interwar Eastern Europe,” Rocky Mountain European Studies Conference, Brigham Young University, October 2004.
“Czechoslovak Intellectuals and Nationalist Propaganda, 1918-1938,” Pacific Coast East European Historians’ Workshop, Stanford University, May 2002.
“Propagandizing the President: Masaryk, the Pátečníci, and the Myth of the Golden Republic,” Czech Studies Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2001.
“Masaryk, Saint of the State: Political Hagiography in Czechoslovakia, 1928-1938,” American Historical Association, Boston, MA, January 2001.
“The New Year’s Eve Scandal: The Friday Men and Czechoslovak Politics, 1926-1928,” Southwest Slavic Association, University of Texas, Austin, TX, February 2000.
“Writing Democracy: The Friday Men and Journalistic Politics in Interwar Prague,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, WA, November 1997.
“The Thinking Man's Democracy: The Friday Group and the Czechoslovak Republic, 1922-1938,” Junior Scholars Training Seminar, Woodrow Wilson International Center, East European Studies Program, Wye Woods, August 1997.
OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
· Panel discussant, “A Second Look at the First Draft of History: Media, Revolution, and the Fall of
Communism,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans,
November, 2007.
· Panel co-organizer, “Myths, States and Legitimacies in Eastern Europe, 1914-1949,” American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., November, 2006.
· Panel chair, “Where Eastern Europe Begins or Context as Critique in German (Minor) Literature,”
German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September-October 2006.
· Roundtable organizer, “Teaching Borders”; chair, “East European Borders,” Lineae Terrarum,
University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University, and Colegio de la Frontera, Cuidad
Juarez, Mexico, March 2006.
· Panel chair, “Listening to the Slavic Past,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2005.
· Panel chair, Polish history, Pacific Coast East European Historians’ Workshop, Stanford
University, May 2002.
· Panel organizer, “Publishing, Propaganda, and Power: Intellectuals and the Twentieth-Century
State,” American Historical Association, Boston, MA, January 2001.
· Panel organizer, “The Limits of Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, WA, November 1997.