• George S. Williamson
  Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
  Ph.D. Yale University, 1996
  
  gwilliam@bama.ua.edu
  
  Fall 2008 Office Hours: Tues. 3:30-4:30; Wed. 3-4:00 and by appointment

  Research Interests:

• Modern Germany
• European Cultural and Intellectual History
• Modern Religious History
• Historical Theory and Methodology

Courses Recently Taught:

• Germany, 1740-1918 (HY 400/500)
• Nazi Germany (HY 353)
• Religion in Modern Europe (HY 321)
• Western Civilization since 1648 (HY 102)
• Honors Western Civilization since 1648 (HY 106)
• Literature of European History (HY 603)

Recent Publications:

• "A Religious Sonderweg? Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular in the Historiography of Modern Germany," in Church History 75 (2006).
• The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
• "Gods, Titans, and Monsters: Philhellenism, Race, and Religion in Early Nineteenth-Century Mythography," in The German Invention of Race, ed. Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore (S.U.N.Y. Press, 2006).
• "Theophilanthropy in Germany: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Question of Liturgy," in Zeitschrift fuer neuere Theologiegeschichte/Journal for the History of Modern Theology 9 (2002), 218-244.
• "What Killed August von Kotzebue? The Temptations of Virtue and the Political Theology of German Nationalism, 1789-1819," in The Journal of Modern History 72 (2000), 890-943.
• Book reviews in The Journal of Modern History, Central European History, Germanic Review, German Quarterly, German Studies Review, H-German, Sewanee Theological Review.

Current Project

• An expansion of the JMH article into a book-length monograph, which uses the Kotzebue affair to examine issues of gender, class, politics, and taste in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Germany.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• Prize for Best Article in 1999-2000 from the Conference Group for Central European History of the A.H.A. for "What Killed August von Kotzebue?" 2002.
• James Bryant Conant Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. 2000-2001.