School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Profile

Mathias Seiter is Lecturer in History and joined the University of Portsmouth in 2010, having previously taught at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on German history during the long nineteenth century with a particular interest in identity formation, nation building, migration, borderlands,perceptions of space, and German-Jewish history. Specifically he is interested in in the interplay between local, regional, and national identities as well as the effects of migration. Challenging the narratives of homogeneous nation-states, his first research project explores the complex identities of Jewish minorities living in contested borderlands of the German Empire. A second project focuses on internal migration in nineteenth-century Central Europe and the social and cultural impact migration had on communities.

Qualifications

• PhD History (University of Southampton) 2009
• Magister Artium (M.A.) Modern and Contemporary History (Universität Augsburg, Germany) 2005

Research CV

Publications

• 'Entre les nations: l’historiographie juive en Alsace-Lorraine’, in Heidi Knoerzer (ed.), Expériences croisées: Les juifs de France et d'Allemagne aux XIXe et XXe siècles (Editions de l'Eclat: Paris, 2010), pp. 77-95.
• 'Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann, and Helmut Walser Smith (eds.), Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)', in H-German, H-Net Reviews (January 2009).
• 'Stefan Dyroff, Erinnerungskultur im deutsch-polnischen Kontaktbereich: Bromberg und der Nordosten der Provinz Posen (Wojewodschaft Poznan) 1871-1939 (Osnabrück: fibre, 2007)', Historische Literatur, 7 (2009), pp. 200-204