Eva Giloi

Candidate statement

Eva Giloi is Associate Professor in the History Department at Rutgers University, Newark. She received her PhD from Princeton in 2000. Her dissertation “Ich Kaufe Mir den Kaiser”: Royal Relics and the Culture of Display in 19th Century Prussia received the Fritz Stern Prize (German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.). Her publications include Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany, 1750-1950, Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, and Staging Authority: Performance and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century. She was Alexander-von-Humboldt Senior Research Fellow in 2012-2013 at the Center for the History of Emotions, Max-Planck-Institute für Bildungsforschung, and Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2019-2020. She has written on material culture, visual culture, museums, monarchy, fame as a social code, charisma in the urban space, photography, copyright, consumer culture, and trademark law, most recently “Looking at Monarchy Askance: Royal Brand Names and Trademark Law in the German Empire” in Central European History. From 2016-2021, she served as Board Member on the German Studies Review Editorial Board and is currently the Central European History representative and Board Member of the Friends of the German Historical Institute.