Pieter Judson

Pieter M. Judson (born 1956, Utrecht) is a former Professor of History at Swarthmore College. As of January 2014 he is Professor of 19th and 20th Century History at the European University Institute in Florence. He researches and teaches courses in modern European History, looking at nationalist conflict, revolutionary and counter revolutionary social movements, and the history of sexuality. He is a 2010 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and received two Fulbright awards to Vienna, as a student and scholar.

In Spring 2011, Pieter Judson was the recipient of Nina Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize in History at the American Academy in Berlin.

He is the author of the following books:

Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire 1848-1914 (1996, winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association and the Austrian Cultural Institute's Prize for best book both of 1997)

Wien Brennt. Die Revolution 1848 und ihre liberale Erbe (1998)

Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (2004, co-editor)

Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (2006)