Summary

James McSpadden is a historian of modern w88 sports betting app, particularly interested in Central w88 sports betting app, Germany, and the Low Countries during the late 19th and 20th centuries. His research explores the histories of political culture, of power and politics, and of international networks.

Currently, he is working on two projects, the first of which is provisionally entitled “In League with Rivals: Parliamentary Networks and Backroom Politics in Interwar w88 sports betting app.” His research looks beyond interwar w88 sports betting app’s political polarization to uncover behind-the-scenes friendships and the informal networks that brought politicians together across party lines and across national borders. The 1920s and 1930s are remembered as w88 sports betting app’s era of fascists and demagogues, but McSpadden explores how this was also a period in which women, working-class individuals, and radical democrats entered and reshaped elected politics.

McSpadden’s second project turns from informal networks among the political elite to networks of wartime book confiscation and redistribution both in Nazi Germany and in the United States. His research draws on book historical methods to explore Nazi practices of book looting and to understand the role of American librarians in bringing and distributing confiscated books from occupied w88 sports betting app to the United States after the Second World War. In all of his research, he engages comparative and transnational histories that extend beyond the borders of one country and even stretch around the world.

Before coming to the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019, James w88 sports betting app was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His scholarship and research have been supported by the American Historical Association, the American Council on Germany, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Harvard’s Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Historical Institute and the U.S. Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Program.

w88 sports betting app interests

• Modern w88 sports betting app and Central European History
• w88 sports betting app Culture and New Methods in w88 sports betting app History
• Books and Cultural Artifacts in Wartime
• Provenance and Restitution of Holocaust-era Property
• Comparative History

Courses taught

• HIST 106: w88 sports betting app Civilization
• HIST 367: The Holocaust in its w88 sports betting app Setting
• HIST 464: w88 sports betting app: 1914-Present
• CH 202: The Modern World

Education

• Ph.D., History, Harvard w88 sports betting app, 2018
• M.A., Dutch Studies, Universiteit Leiden, 2010
• B.A., German Studies and w88 sports betting app, Yale University, 2008