{"id":2837,"date":"2022-03-09T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:19:49","slug":"prof-john-swanson-named-spring-2022-external-senior-fellow-at-the-freiburg-institute-for-advanced-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2022\/03\/09\/prof-john-swanson-named-spring-2022-external-senior-fellow-at-the-freiburg-institute-for-advanced-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. John C. Swanson Named Spring 2022 External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the spring 2022 semester Prof. John C. Swanson<\/a> is serving as an External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.\u00a0 His profile page appears below.<\/p>\n

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PROF. DR. JOHN C. SWANSON<\/h3>\n
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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
\nDepartment of HistoryExternal Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
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Email\u00a0John-swanson@utc.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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CV<\/h3>\n

I am a historian of modern Central and Eastern Europe with interest in questions concerning minorities, belonging, and nationness. I also have worked as a documentary filmmaker.<\/p>\n

At the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga I teach courses on Central Europe, Eastern Europe, general European history, and historical methods. I have led study tours to Europe for American students concerning the history of the Holocaust. I also served as Department Head in Chattanooga for six years. Prior to moving to Tennessee, I taught for fifteen years at Utica College in upstate New York. My Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota, and I received a B.A. in music and political science from Boston University.<\/p>\n

My most recent long-term project examined a minority population in Central and Eastern Europe: German speakers in Hungary. That project culminated in 2017 with the publication of my book:\u00a0Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Europe<\/i>\u00a0(University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2018 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize and the 2019 Hungarian Studies Association Book Prize. It appeared in German translation in 2020 (Pustet Verlag). This project examines the issue of minority making and the imbedded struggle within minority formation over the meaning of such categories as \u201cGerman.\u201d My main query is how these \u201cGerman-speaking Hungarians\u201d became Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) by the 1930s. This is not a story of individuals gaining German consciousness, but rather I document the process by which the meaning of \u201cGerman\u201d changed in reference to the Swabians of Hungary\u2014the largest non-Magyar group in post-First World War Hungary. This project also resulted in the documentary film\u00a0About a Village<\/i>, which has been screened at festivals and conferences in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, and Japan.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n