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Dr. Matthew Unangst
Assistant Professor of History
History
Email address munangs@ju.edu
Telephone number (904) 256-7162
Office location Gooding 215
Education
- Ph.D., History, Temple University, 2015
- B.A., European History, University of California-Santa Cruz, 2007
Fields of Study
- Modern Germany
- Modern Africa
- Empire
- Spatial History
Courses Taught
- The Modern World (HIST 150)
- 20th-Century Europe (HIST 329)
- Modern Africa (HIST 350)
- Berlin (HIST 350)
- Genocide in the Twentieth Century (HIST 350)
Selected Publications, Awards, and Service
- Book manuscript under review: Colonial Geography: German Colonialism, Race, and Space in East Africa, 1884-1905
- "Trans-Imperial Anti-Slavery and Anti-Islam in the 1880s: The Bushiri War Blockage, "Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, October 2020
- Mapping Empire," in Staging Authority, ed. Eva Giloi, Martin Kohlrausch, Heikki Lempa, Heidi Mehrens, and Philipp Nielsen (Berlin: De Gruyter)
- "Emin Pasha and the German Imagination of the Heart of Darkness," in After the Imperialist Imagination: 25 Years of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies, eds. Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, and Adam Blackler (New York: Peter Lang, 2020).
- "Men of Science and of Action: The Celebrity of Explorers and German National Identity, 1870-1895" Central European History 50, no. 3(September 2017): 305-327
- International Fellowship, State Museums of Berlin, 2019-2020
- Research, Create Activities, and Scholarship Grant, Jacksonville University, 2019-2020
- Summer of Scholarship Grant, Jacksonville University, 2018-2019
- Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association, 2017
- Research Grant, Central European History Society, 2017
- University Standards and Engaged Learning Committees