James Retallack
Professor Retallack teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in German and European History, 1740-1945.
He recently published a revised and expanded 2nd edition of Vol. 4 in the online German History in Documents and Images project for the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, covering Bismarckian Germany (1866-1890).
Professor Retallack has held grants, fellowships, and research prizes from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the SSHRC of Canada, the Jackman Humanities Institute, the Killam Program at the Canada Council for the Arts, and the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011.
He has held Visiting Professorships at the Free University Berlin (1993-4) and the University of Göttingen (2002-3) and he was Visiting Scholar at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (2014).
He is General Editor of “Oxford Studies in Modern European History” for Oxford University Press and of "German and European Studies" for the University of Toronto Press.
His book Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 appeared with Oxford University Press in 2017.
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His research interests (1830-1918) include German regional history, nationalism, antisemitism, elections, and historiography. He is currently writing a biography of the German Social Democratic leader August Bebel.
