Alexander Maxwell, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24
Biography
Alexander Maxwell studied in Davis, Göttingen, Brno, Bloomington, and Budapest before completing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He held short-term positions in Erfurt, Swansea, Reno, and Bucharest before settling in New Zealand. He is now associate professor of history at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Choosing Slovakia, Patriots Against Fashion, and Everyday Nationalism in Hungary. He has guest edited themed issues of Nationalities Papers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, German Studies Review, the New Zealand Slavonic Journal, and the Journal of Nationalism, Memory, and Language Politics. He is currently researching Habsburg Panslavism and the language/dialect dichotomy.
Visiting fellowship April 2024
Motivation
I have professional and personal motives for coming to Ljubljana. Professionally, I want to expand my knowledge of Habsburg Slavic life to Carinthia, Carnoiola and the Littoral: many important figures in Habsburg Slavism, such as Kopitar and Miklošič, come from the land that would eventually become Slovene, and I want to integrate those famous figures into my personal understanding of Habsburg Slavic history. At a personal level, I have always enjoyed my visits to Ljubljana, and often thought it would be nice to spend a year here. So this is the year!
List of publications
Everyday Nationalism in Hungary, 1789-1867 (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019), 258 pages. ISBN-10: 3110634112; DOI: 10.1515/9783110638448
Patriots Against Fashion: Clothing and Nationalism in Europe’s Age of Revolutions (London: Palgrave, 2014), 311 pages. ISBN-10: 1137277130; DOI: 10.1057/9781137277145
Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czech Language and Accidental Nationalism (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009), 288 pages. ISBN-10: 1848850743
Reciprocity Between the Tribes and Dialects of the Slavic Language, a translation of Ján Kollár’s Wechselseitigkeit (Bloomington: Slavica Press, 2009), including “Ján Kollár’s Linguistic Nationalism,” 1-68; “A note on the translation” 1-67, “A note on the Translation,” 69-72. ISBN-10: 0893573434
Edited Volumes
Pan-Nationalisms in Theory and Practice (London: Routledge, 2023). ISBN-10:1032485701
The Comparative Approach to National Movements: Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies (London: Routledge, 2012). ISBN-10: 0415681960
The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011). ISBN-10: 3034301987
Journal Articles
“Objective Facts, Consensus Opinions and the Study of Slovak Panslavism,” Historický časopis, vol. 71, no. 4 (2023), 723-747. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2023.71.4.9
“Suppressing the Memory of Slovak Panslavism: The historiographical Misrepresentation of Kollár and Štúr,” Historický časopis, vol. 71, no. 2 (2023), 249-277. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2023.71.2.3
“The Dialects of Panslavic, Serbocroatian, and Croatian: Linguistic Taxonomies in Zagreb, 1836–1997,” Journal of Nationalism, Memory and Language Politics, vol. 17 no. 1 (2023), 20-52. DOI: 10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0001
With Raf Van Rooy: “Early Modern Terminology for Dialect: Denigration, Purism, and the Language-Dialect Dichotomy,” Contributions to the History of Concepts, vol. 18, no. 1 (2023), 95-118. DOI: 10.3167/choc.2023.180105
“Popular and Scholarly Primordialism: The Politics of Ukrainian History during Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.” Journal of Nationalism, Memory and Language Politics, vol. 16, no. 2 (2022), 152-171. DOI: 10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0008
“Noam Chomsky and the Language/Dialect Dichotomy,” Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 32, no. 1 (2022), 72-98. ISSN: 0939-2815
“Greece and Germany as Models for Habsburg Pan-Slavs,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 28, no. 1 (2021), 20-39. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2021.2004762
With Jan Záhořík and Molly Turner: “The Nation versus the ‘Not-Quite-Nation’: A Semantic Approach to Nationalism and Its Terminology,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol. 21, no. 2 (2021), 194-207. DOI: 10.1111/sena.12349
“‘What is my purpose?’ Artificial Sentience Having an Existential Crisis in Rick and Morty,” Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, vol. 4 (2021), 1-14. DOI: 10.26686/wgtn.14721459
“Analyzing Nationalized Clothing: Nationalism Theory meets Fashion Studies,” National Identities, vol. 21, no. 1 (2021), 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1634037; ISSN: 1460-8944
“Contingency and ‘National Awakening’,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 26, no. 2 (2020), 183-201. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2020.1754554; ISSN: 1353-7113
“Glottonyms, Anachronism and Ambiguity in Scholarly Depictions of Juraj Križanić/Юрий Крижанич,” Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 98, no. 2, (2020), 201-234. DOI: 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.98.2.0201; ISSN: 0037-6795
“Primordialism for Scholars Who Ought to Know Better: Anthony D. Smith’s Critique of Modernization Theory,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 48, no. 1 (2020), 826-842. DOI: 10.1017/nps.2019.93; ISSN: 0090-5992
With Molly Turner: “Nationalists Rejecting Statehood: Three Case Studies from Wales, Catalonia, and Slovakia.” Nations and Nationalism, vol. 26, no. 2 (2020), 692-707. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12577
With Jan Feld: “Sampling Error in Lexicostatistical Measurements: A Slavic Case Study,” Diachronica, vol. 36, no. 1 (2019), 100-120. DOI: 10.1075/dia.18004.fel; ISSN: 0176-4225
“When Theory is a Joke: The Weinrich Witticism in Linguistics,” Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 28, no. 2 (2018), 263-292. ISSN: 0939-2815
Supplemental material published with Robert Alexander Hurley and Timothy Atkin: “The Weinreich Witticism Database.” Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 28, no. 2 (2018), electronic resource, URL: .
“‘Supplicant Nationalism’ in Slovakia and Wales: Polyethnic Rights During the Nineteenth Century.” Central Europe, vol. 16, no. 1 (2018), 29-50. DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2018.1492684; ISSN: 1479-0963
“Effacing Panslavism: Linguistic Classification and Historiographic Misrepresentation,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 46, no. 4 (2018), 633-53. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2017.1374360; ISSN: 0090-5992
With Geoffrey Brown: “Czechoslovak Ruthenia’s 1925 Latinization Campaign as the Heritage of Nineteenth-Century Slavism,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 44, no. 6 (2016), 950-966. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2016.1212824
“Hungaro-German Dual Nationality: Germans, Slavs and Magyars during the 1848 Revolution,” German Studies Review, vol. 39, no. 1 (2016), 17-39. DOI: 10.1353/gsr.2016.0022
With Tim Smith: “Positing “Not-yet-Nationalism”: Limits to the Impact of Nationalism Theory on Kurdish Historiography,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 44, no. 5 (2015), 771-787. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2015.1049135
“Taxonomies of the Slavic World since the Enlightenment: Schematizing Perceptions of Slavic Ethnonyms in a Chart,” Language and History, vol. 58, no. 1 (2015), 24-54. DOI: 10.1179/1759753615Z.00000000037
“The Nation as a Gentleman’s Agreement: Masculinity and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century Hungary,” Men and Masculinities, vol. 18, no. 5 (2015), 536-558. DOI: 10.1177/1097184X15575156
“ ‘The Handsome Man with Hungarian Moustache and Beard’: National Moustaches in Habsburg Hungary,” Journal of Cultural and Social History, vol. 12, no. 1 (2015), 51-76. DOI: 10.2752/147800415X14135484867144
“Edvard Beneš and the Soft Sell: Czechoslovak Diplomacy toward Lusatia, 1918-1919,” Bohemia, vol. 54, no. 2 (2014), 348-367. DOI:10.18447/BoZ-2014-3945
“National Alcohol in Hungary’s Reform Era: Wine, Spirits, and the Patriotic Imagination,” Central Europe, vol. 12, no. 2 (2014), 117-35. DOI: 10.1179/1479096314Z.00000000027
“The 1848 Revolution and the Limits of Sorbian Czechoslovakism,” The New Zealand Slavonic Journal, vol. 46 (2012 [published in 2014]), 9-22. JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24429431
“Tobacco as Cultural Signifier: A Cultural History of Masculinity and Nationality in Habsburg Hungary,” Hungarian Cultural Studies, vol. 5 (2012), 45-64. DOI: 10.5195/ahea.2012.68
“Herder, Kollár, and the Origins of Slavic Ethnography,” Traditiones: Journal of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, vol. 40, no. 2 (2011), 79-95. DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2011/400205; ISSN: 0352-0447
“Typologies and Phase Theories in Nationalism Studies: Hroch’s A-B-C Schema as a Basis for Comparative Terminology,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 38, no. 6 (2010), 865–880; also reprinted in: Alexander Maxwell, ed., The Comparative Approach to National Movements: Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies (London: Routledge, 2012), 79-96. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2010.515970
“Slavic Macedonian Nationalism: From ‘Regional’ to ‘Ethnic’,” Ethnologia Balkanica, vol. 11 (2008), 127-54.
“National Endogamy and Double Standards: Sexuality and Nationalism in East-Central Europe during the 19th Century,” Journal of Social History, vol. 41, no. 2 (2007), 413-33. DOI: 10.1353/jsh/41.2.413
“Why the Slovak Language has Three Dialects: A Case Study in Historical Perceptual Dialectology,” Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 37 (2006), 385-414. DOI: 10.1017/s0067237800016817.
“Multiple Nationalism: National Concepts in 19th century Hungary and Benedict Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 11, no. 3 (2005), 385-414. DOI: 10.1080/13537110500255619
“Nationalizing Sexuality: Sexual Stereotypes in the Habsburg Empire,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 14, no. 3 (2005), 266-90. DOI: 10.1353/sex.2006.0026
“Magyarization, Language Planning, and Whorf – The Word ‘Uhor’ as a Case Study in Linguistic Relativism,” Multilingua, vol. 23, no. 4 (2004), 319-337. DOI: 10.1515/mult.2004.23.4.319
Introductions to themed issues
“Rebels into Loyalists, or Loyalists into Rebels? Habsburg Officials and Their International Contacts during the Age of Revolutions,” Central Europe, vol. 21, no. 1 (2023), 1-7. DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2023.2181496
“The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine and its Lessons for Nationalism Studies,” Journal of Nationalism, Memory and Language Politics, vol. 16, no. 2 (2022), 94-103. DOI: 10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0012
“Pan-Nationalism as a Category in Theory and Practice,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 28, no. 1 (2021), 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2021.2004767
“Nationalism as Classification: Suggestions for Reformulating Nationalism Research,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 46, no. 4 (2018), 539-555. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2018.1448376; ISSN: 0090-5992
With Sacha Davis: “Germanness beyond Germany: Collective Identity in German Diaspora Communities,” German Studies Review, vol. 39, no. 1 (2016), 1-15. DOI: 10.1353/gsr.2016.0016
“Twenty-five years of A-B-C: Miroslav Hroch’s Impact on Nationalism Studies,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 38, no. 6 (November 2010), 773-76. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2010.515975
