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).