Prof. Dr. John C. Swanson

Research tasks at the GWZO:
Jewish Communities in Subcarpathian Rus'

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA

Central and Eastern Europe

• Nationalism and ethnic identity
• Subcarpathian Rus’

• Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)

• The Remnants of the Habsburg Monarchy: The Shaping of Modern Austria and Hungary, 1918-1922. (Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, distributed by Colombia University Press, 2001).

• "The Second World War and Its Aftermath: Ethnic German Communities in the East" in Germans and the East, edited by Charles Ingrao and Franz A.J. Szabo (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008), 347-361

• Nation, Volk, Minderheit, Volksgruppe: Die deutsche Minderheit in Ungarn in den Begriffskämpfen der Zwischenkriegsära." Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 55 (2006): 526-547.