• PHD History, University of California at Berkeley 2002
World Area Of Focus:
• International 10%-24% • Russia/Eastern Europe 25%-49% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 50%-74%
Languages:
• Czech (native/bilingual proficiency) • German (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Chad Bryant studies the social and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to the present. His research focuses on the Bohemian Lands, most of which now constitute the Czech Republic. He is currently working on two book projects. The first project is a history of Prague since the Middle Ages as seen through the eyes of seven of the city's lesser known inhabitants. The second project examines the emergence of various travel practices and travel experiences in the Bohemian Lands before 1848.
Relevant Experience:
• Czech Republic
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Friends of the German Historical Institute, 2003; Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, awarded by the Wiener Library, London, England, 2003; National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Policy Research Fellowship, 2004-2005 academic year; American Council of Learned Societies East European Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2005 academic year (declined); CIES Fulbright research award for the Czech Republic, fall 2004 (declined); Research Scholar Grant, East European Studies program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, summer 2004 and summer 2005; Winner of the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, Conference Group for Central European History; Honorable mention, Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; National Humanities Center, Research Fellow grant, 2009-2010 academic year
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
4
Relevant Courses Taught:
• “Eastern Europe from 1815 to the Present”; Eastern Europe from 1939 to the Present”; “Travel and Politics in Eastern Europe”; “The World since 1945”; “A History of Trains” (freshman seminar); “Readings in Russian and East European History”; “Readings in East European History”; “States and Societies in Eastern Europe”
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Walking Histories, 1800-1914, co-edited with Paul Readman and Arthur Burns (Palgrave, 2016)
• 2015 “Collaboration and Jiří Smichovský” in “Prague Shared and Divided” digital mapping project, Multikulturni Centrum Prague
• 2015 Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914, co-edited with Paul Readman and Cynthia Radding, (Palgrave, 2014)
• 2015 Czech version: http://praha.mkc.cz/cz/praha?topics=kolaborace; English, German, and Polish versions to appear soon
• 2013 “Zap’s Prague: The City, the Nation, and Czech Elites before 1848,” Urban History 40, 2 (May 2013): 181-201
• 2012 "A Tale of One City: Topographies of Prague before 1848,” Bohemia 52, 1 (2012): 5-21
• 2009 “Into an Uncertain Future: Railroads and Vormärz Liberalism in Brno, Vienna, and Prague.” Austrian History Yearbook, 40 (2009): 183-201.
• 2007 Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007)
• 2006 “The Language of Resistance? Czech Jokes and Joke-telling under Nazi Occupation, 1943-1945,” Journal of Contemporary History 41 (January 2006): 133-151
• 2002 'Obcanstvi, narodnost a kazdodenni zivot. Prispevek k dejinam cesko-nemeckych smisenych manzelstvi, 1939-1946' ['Citizenship, Nationality, and Everyday Life:Towards a History of Mixed Czech-German Marriages, 1939-1946'], Miloš Rataj trans., Kudĕj 2 (Fall 2002): 43-54
• 2002 “Either German or Czech: Fixing Nationality in Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1946,”Slavic Review 61, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 683-706
• 2000 'Whose Nation' Czech Dissident Writing from a Post-1989 Perspective,' History and Memory 12, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2000):30-64 2000
• 1939 “Either German or Czech: Fixing Nationality in Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1946,”Slavic Review 61, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 683-706
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