Daniel Kowalsky

Daniel Kowalsky (Burns, Oregon, 1966) read history and classics with Joseph Fracchia at the University of Oregon, before taking an MA in European history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he studied with Robert Kern and Charles McClelland. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working under Stanley G. Payne. The doctorate in hand in spring 2001, he took successive lecturing posts in the history departments at Washington University in St Louis, The American University in Cairo and the University of Bristol. He became a permanent member of the Queen's staff in summer 2005.

Relevant Websites

Stalin and the Spanish Civil War Interactive e-book published by Columbia University Press, 2004
www.gutenberg-e.org/kod01/ (access with user: coy password: empire)

La Unión Soviética y la Guerra Civil Española: Una revision crítica Castilian version of revised dissertation, published by Editorial Crítica, 2003
www.ed-critica.es/detalles_libro_sinopsis.php?ID=689

Articles published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000-2002
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/fp/authors/daniel_kowalsky/fp_articles.html

History in Dispute: The Spanish Civil War New anthology of the Spanish conflict, co-authored with Kenneth W. Estes Published by St. James Press in January 2005
www.gale.com/pdf/samples/toc24945.pdf

A specialist in 20th-century Spain and interwar diplomatic history, Kowalsky's Wisconsin thesis focused on Soviet involvement in the Spanish Civil War, and was awarded the American Historical Association's Gutenberg-e Prize in 2001. The revised manuscript was published on both sides of the Atlantic: with Columbia University Press, and Editorial Crítica, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He co-edited a textbook of new research on the Spanish Civil War for St. James Press in 2005. From 2005-2010, he was series editor for the Soviet and Finnish volumes on British documents on foreign affairs. The author of many chapters and articles on aspects of the war in Spain, he is now completing two book projects: Decree and power, an expansion of his earlier work on Soviet participation in the Spanish Civil War (Routledge) and Interwar Originals: Europeans making History, an interpretation of interwar Europe through biographical vignettes.  In addition to his teaching and publication schedule, Kowalsky is a regular participant in research seminars at Paris IV/Sorbonne, the Cañada Blanch Centre/London School of Economics and the Casa Velazquez-Madrid. As a guest speaker, he has appeared at universities throughout Europe, North America, Africa and Oceania.

Dr Daniel Kowalsy teaches on the following programmes / modules: