Summary
Kathryn E. Densford earned her Ph.D. in History from George Washington University. Her research focuses on Habsburg Central and Eastern Europe and its successor states. She has received numerous grants, including support from the Central European History Society and Fulbright Austria. Her book manuscript, Beyond Vienna: The Provincial Austrian Home Front during the First World War, is under contract with CEU Press. She is also a member of the collaborative research project Pragmatic Expectations: Nationalizing Multi-ethnic Cities, 1918-1939.
Publications
- “Between Lower Austria and Moravia: Displaced Local Elites and the Feldsberg/Valtice Agricultural School.” European Review of History/Revue européenne d’historie (2024): 1-22.
- “Feldsberg/Valtice and the Lower Austrian Towns that Became Czech, 1918-1920” in Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918-1923: The War that Never Ended. Edited by Tomasz Pud艂ocki and Kamil Rusza艂a. New York: Routledge, 2021.
- “Brambovci v 啪elezu: Merilo javne podpore v zaledju v 膷asu prve svetovne vojne” [“The Wehrmann in Eisen: A Measure of Wartime Support on the Habsburg Home Front”], Zgodovina za vse, 28, Vol.1 (2021): 15-24.
- “Fellow Citizens, Unwanted Foreigners: The Refugee Crisis in Wartime Moravia,” in World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflict and Military Experience. Edited by Judith Devlin, Maria Falina, and John Paul Newman. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
- “The Wehrmann in Eisen: Nailed Statues as Barometers of Habsburg Social Order during the First World War,” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’historie, 24/2 (2017): 305-324.