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Professor Retallack teaches graduate courses and supervises Ph.D. field preparation in European history from 1770 to 1945. His research interests (1830-1918) include German regional history, nationalism, anti-Semitism, electoral politics, and historiography. His books (authored and edited) include Imperial Germany 1871-1918: The Short Oxford History of Germany (2008); Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place (2007); The German Right, 1860-1920 (2006); Wilhelminism and Its Legacies (2003); Saxony in German History (2000); Sachsen in Deutschland (2000); Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1996); Modernisierung und Region (1995); Between Reform, Reaction, and Resistance (1993); Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany (1992); and Notables of the Right (1988). He has also published a volume of on-line documents and images on Bismarckian Germany for the German Historical Institute, Washington DC. He has held grants, fellowships, and research prizes from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and the SSHRC of Canada. He has been a visiting professor at the Free University Berlin and the University of Göttingen. He will soon complete a study of electoral culture and the authoritarian state in Saxony and Germany, 1860-1918.