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JAMES W. OBERLY
Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire              
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004                                                     
joberly@uwec.edu   
715-836-4599 (w)      

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1983.  Fields:  U.S. History, Modern Europe, Economic History

M.A., University of Rochester, 1977.  Field:  U.S. History

B.A., Columbia University, 1975.  Major:  History

Tanúsítvány (Certificate), University of Debrecen, 2009-13. Hungarian Language Courses

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC),
July 1994 -

AWARDS AND VISITING APPOINTMENTS

Laszlo Orszagh Chair in American Studies, Hungarian-American Fulbright Foundation, 2013, hosted by Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Budapest

Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Population Center, 2012

University of Wisconsin Sabbatical Leave, 2012-13

Visiting Researcher, Minnesota Population Center, 2010-2012

ICPSR Official Representative Sabbatical, 2002.

RECENTLY FUNDED GRANTS

“The Budapest Census of 1941 Project:  A Preliminary Sampling,” funded by UW-Eau Claire, Office of International Fellows Projects ($18,000).

 

SCHOLARSHIP—SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

“Julius Drachsler’s Intermarriage in New York City: A Study in Historical Replication,” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 47, No. 2 (2014): 95-111.

“Amerikai magyar bevándorlók szerelmi történetének (1910) értelmezése” [“Interpreting a Hungarian Immigrant Love Story from 1910”]  AETAS, 29, No. 2 (2014): 176-191.

“Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective,” in Indigenous Perspectives of North America, edited by Enikő Sepsi, Judit Nagy, Miklós Vassányi (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 32-51.

A Nation of Statesmen:  The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815-1972 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005; reissued in paperback 2008).

 “Land, Population, Prices and the Regulation of Natural Resources:  The Lake Superior Ojibwas, 1790-1920,” in Linda Barrington, ed., The Other Side of the Frontier:  Economic Explorations into Native American History (Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1998).

Sixty Million Acres:  American Veterans and the Public Lands before the Civil War (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990).

SCHOLARSHIP AWAITING PUBLICATION

The Transatlantic Migration Experience from Austria-Hungary to the United States, 1870-1940, co-authored with Annemarie Steidl and Wladimir Fischer (book manuscript for submission to Innsbruck Studien Verlag [Austria] 2015).