Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Europe
- Migration/Diaspora
- Russia
- Social
- United States
Major and Minor Fields
Major
- Modern Europe (James Retallack)
Minor 1
Minor 2
Working Dissertation
Title
Supervisors
Biography
Eriks' dissertation examines German anxiety about American empire from the 1880s to the 1920s through the lens of imperial culture and global history under the supervisions of Professors James Retallack, Carol Chin, and Eric Jennings. He specializes in Modern Europe from ca. 1850–1950. Eriks also investigates Latvian diaspora and family histories in Canada, specifically memories of visiting the Latvian Soviet Republic in the 1970s and 1980s. His broader interests include: Personal Archives; Family & Nationality; Migration History; Localism and Local Identity; and Digital Humanities.
Publications
“Sketching America: German Depictions of the United States and Woodrow Wilson (1914–1918).” German Studies Review 42, no. 3 (October 2019): 469–97. doi: 10.1353/gsr.2019.0077.
“Practicing Empire: Germany’s Colonial Visions in the Pacific Northwest.” In German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires, edited by Janne Lahti. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. in press.
Awards
- 2021 Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship (SSHRC)
- 2020 Central European History Society Research Grant
- 2019 Joint Initiative in German and European Studies Special Supplemental Research Award Munk School of Global Affairs
- 2019 Michael Smith Foreign Studies Supplement (CGS-SSHRC)
- 2019 School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant University of Toronto
- 2018 Joint Initiative in German and European Studies Special Supplemental Research Award Munk School of Global Affairs
- 2018 School of Graduate Studies Research Travel Grant University of Toronto
- 2018 AABS 2018 Conference Travel Grant
- 2017 University of Toronto Fellowship
- 2017 Department of History Pre-Dissertation Research Award
- 2016 University of Toronto Fellowship
- 2015 Conway Summer Travel Scholarship in German History University of British Columbia
- 2015 Faculty of Arts Graduate Award University of British Columbia
Education
Cohort
- 2016-2017