History

Elizabeth Jones

Emeritus Faculty

About

  • Role

    Emeritus

  • Position

    • Emeritus Faculty

  • Department

    • History

  • Education

    • PhD modern German history, University of Minnesota/Twin Cities
    • M.A. German Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin/Madison
    • B.A. History and German, Mount Holyoke College

Biography

“With the Grain: Food Sovereignty in Europe in the Age of Covid-19,” Roundtable on Changing Agriculture in Rural Europe, EuropeNow 37 (November 2020).

“Fixing Prussia’s Peripheries: Rural Disasters and Prusso-German State-Building, 1866-1914,” Central European History 51 (2018): 204-227.

“Internal Colonization in Weimar Germany: Local and Transnational Approaches to Rural Governance in the 1920s,” in Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe, ed. Liesbeth van de Grift and Amalia Ribi-Forclaz, Routledge, 2017.

“Keeping up with the Dutch: Internal Colonization and Rural Reform in Germany, 1800-1914,” International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity (2015): 141-62.

“The Rural ‘Social Ladder’: Internal Colonization, Germanization and Civilizing Missions in the German Empire,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 40, no. 4 (2014): 457-92.

“No Smoke without Fire: Moor Burning, the Environment, and Social Reform in the German Empire, 1866-1914,” Agricultural History 88, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 207-36.

”¿ Un gran plan de mejora ? “: la colonización interna en el imperio alemán (A Grand Improvement Scheme?: Internal Colonization in Imperial Germany) Historia Social 77 (Fall 2013): 113-32.

Gender and Rural Modernity: Farm Women and the Politics of Labor in Germany, 1871-1933 (Ashgate, Series in Labour History, 2009)

“Landwirtschaftliche Arbeit und weibliche Körper in Deutschland, 1918-1933,” in Ort. Arbeit. Körper: Ethnographie Europäischer Modernen, ed. B. Binder, S. Göttsch, W. Kaschuba, K. Vanja (Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2005), 477-84.

“Pre- and Postwar Generations of Rural Female Youth and the Future of the German Nation, 1871-1933,” Continuity and Change 19, no. 3 (Cambridge, 2004): 1-19.

“The Gendering of the Postwar Agricultural Labor Shortage in Saxony, 1918-1925,” Central European History 32, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 311-29.

Keynote Speaker

Midwest German History Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington, October 10-12, 2014, “Reclaiming Germany’s ‘Wild West’: Internal Colonization and Empire, 1800-1914″