He received his B.A. and M.A. from Texas A&M University and earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of Virginia in 1986.
Hunt Tooley pursues scholarly interests in Modern European history and more generally in the history of violence and the growth of the state in modern times--war, revolutions, peace, and economies. At the level of monographical research, he has worked most frequently in German history during the era of the two world wars. He is the author of two books, National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922(The University of Nebraska Press, 1997), and The Western Front: Battleground and Homefront in the First World War (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003). He is the co-editor, with Steven Bela Vardy, of Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (May 2003, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, Colorado). He has written articles and book reviews for numerous scholarly journals and collections. He has presented numerous conference papers and lectures.
Among his scholarly associations are the German Studies Association, the European Section of the Southern Historical Association, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute, of which he is an Adjunct Faculty Member. He served as Chair of the European History Section of the SHA for the year 2004/2005.
This page created with Netscape Navigator Gold