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Elun Gabriel

Professor of Modern European History
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617

Education

1993

Haverford College

B.A. in History, concentration in Feminist & Gender Studies

1997

University of California, Davis

M.A. in History

2003

University of California, Davis

Ph.D. in History

Major Field: Modern European History

Minor Fields: World History, Cross-Cultural Women's History

St. Lawrence University

Professor of History (2023-)

Associate Professor of History (2010-2023)

Assistant Professor of History (2006-2010)

Adjunct Assistant Professor/ Visiting Assistant Professor of History (2002-2006)

Select Academic Service

Retention Committee (co-chair, 2018-2023)

Academic Planning Committee (2021-2023)

Assessment Committee (2017-2020, 2022-2023)

Campus Safety Monitoring Committee (2021-2022)

Academic Standing Committee (2017-2023)

Academic Advising Committee (2017-2023)

Sophomore Success Initiative steering committee (2017-2023)

Austria study abroad program campus co-coordinator (2010-2017)

Davis Projects for Peace Selection Committee (2009-2011)

Institutional Strategy and Assessment Committee (2007-2009)

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Campus Leadership Positions

Associate Dean of Academic Advising (2017-2023)

Chair of History Department (2012-2017)

Coordinator of European Studies Program (2007-2017)

Professional Standards Committee (by election, 2013-2017)

Faculty Delegate to the Board of Trustees (by election, 2015-2017)

Faculty Council (by election, 2009-2012; chair, 2011-2012)

Fellowships and Awards

Louis and Frances Maslow Award (2019)

  • “given annually to a faculty member who has shown the most interest in and understanding of the education and welfare of the student body as a whole"

Fulbright German Studies Seminar (2013)

  • “Berlin: Where Cultures Meet and Challenges Abound”

Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2011-2012)

William B. Bradbury, Jr. Faculty Support Award (2009-10)

Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in German Studies, Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota (2002, by invitation)

Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, German Historical Institute (2000, by invitation)

Academic Position

Professional Development

Intergroup Dialogue training and working group (2018-)

  • including Facilitation and Advanced Facilitation Workshops

Mediation training (2018)

Moravian College German Script Course (2017)

Associated Colleges Academic Leaders Workshop on Regulatory and Policy Issues (2017)

Teaching and Research

I teach a wide range of courses, with a specialization in modern European history. I have also co-taught in St. Lawrence University's First-Year Program for over 20 years.

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I am a scholar of modern German history, with a specific interest in political culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially responses to terrorism and political violence.

Courses

History

  • Introduction to European Studies

  • Twentieth-century Europe

  • Nineteenth-century Europe

  • Women in Modern Europe

  • The Holocaust

  • Genocide in the Modern World

  • Modern Germany since 1871

  • Modern German History through Berlin (with Berlin travel component)

  • Modern Italy since 1861

  • Political Violence in Modern Europe

  • The Weimar Republic & the Rise of the Nazis

  • History research methods seminars: “World War I,” “Fascism”

  • Senior research seminar: “Weimar & Nazi Germany”

 

First-Year Program

  • “The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien”/“Lord of Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Invention of Middle-earth” (co-taught)

  • “Growing Up Victorian” (co-taught)

  • “Remembrance of Things Past” (co-taught)

  • “The Cultural Construction of Community” (co-taught) 

  • “Pirates & Piracy in History, Fiction, and Metaphor”

  • “Utopia & Dystopia in the Modern World”

  • “Conspiracy Theory”

Publications

Book

  • Assassins & Conspirators: Anarchism, Socialism, and Political Culture in Imperial Germany (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014)

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Articles and chapters

  • “The General Strike and the Specter of Anarchism in the German ‘Mass Strike Debate,’” Left History (Fall 2023)

  • “Some Considerations When Preparing to Teach About Genocide,” in Teaching about Genocide: Insight and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors, vol. 1, ed. Samuel Totten (Lanham, Md.: Rowman &

  •   Littlefield, 2018)

  • “Utopia, science, and the nature of civilization in Theodor Hertzka’s Freiland,” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 48, no. 1 (February 2012), for the special issue, “Visions of Tomorrow: Science and Utopia in German Culture”

  • “Anarchism’s appeal to German workers, 1878-1914,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 5, no. 1 (Spring 2011)

  • • “The Left Liberal Critique of Anarchism in Imperial Germany,” German Studies Review 33, no. 2 (May 2010)

  • • “Performing Persecution: Witnessing and Martyrdom in the Anarchist Tradition,” Radical History Review 98 (Spring 2007)

  • “The Anarchist as Monster in Fin-de-siècle Europe,” in Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, ed. Niall Scott (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007)

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