B. Board: History

As an associate professor of history at SUNY New Paltz, I write about Vienna’s intellectual circles in the 1780s. My past publications focused on freemasonry and publication practices in that decade of enlightenment activism. I am now working on a book about a botanical expedition sent around the world to gather plants, animals, and minerals for the Habsburg imperial collections. I have been supported by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian American History, a Richard Plaschka fellowship from the Austrian government, and a Fulbright. In serving the field, I have been on the GSA’s program committee and otherwise worked to promote Habsburg and Austrian studies through a long stint editing the HABSBURG H-net list. With my research focusing on pre-1800 global exchange and race, a background at an underfunded mid-sized state university, and connections with a range of centers and programs supporting the Austrian side of German Studies, I feel I can support and help expand the GSA’s goals of representation and serving member needs. On the board, I would focus on building community and mentoring through the association, communicating the value of knowledge work in German Studies, and supporting our strong interdisciplinary networks and increasing their visibility.

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.