Nathaniel D. Wood

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-9458 Office: 3641 Wescoe Hall Email: ndwood@ku.edu

Asst. Prof. (Ph.D. 2004, Indiana) 19 th and 20 th-Cent. Eastern Europe, Poland, modern Europe, urban and cultural history, the popular press

Professor Wood’s current research investigates Eastern European history from an urban and popular perspective, in an effort to broaden our understanding of an area whose modern history has been largely viewed in national and political terms. His manuscript, “Becoming Metropolitan: Cracow’s Popular Press and the Representation of Modern Urban Life, 1900-1915”, explores press representations of the city, including attitudes toward urban expansion, electric streetcars, automobiles, airplanes, and big-city crime and filth.  He has published articles on urban self-identification in East Central Europe (East Central Europe/ L'Europe du Centre-Est 33 2006), Cracow's popular press (The Austrian History Yearbook 33 2002), and theories of nationalism and gender (Historyka [ Poland ] 30, 2000).

Prof. Wood teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern European and Eastern European history and currently serves on the executive committee of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at KU.