Event

Natasha G. Wheatley, Princeton University
“The Temporal Life of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty”

4:30pm | Virtual-Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98259612024

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Natasha Wheatley, assistant professor in the Department of History at Princeton University, is an historian of modern European and international history with broad interests in legal and intellectual history. She completed her PhD at Columbia in 2016, and prior to joining the Princeton faculty she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney. Recent articles include “Central Europe as Ground Zero of the New International Order” (Slavic Review, 2019), and “Spectral Legal Personality in Interwar International Law” (Law and History Review, 2017), which won the Surrency Prize from the American Society for Legal History. Together with Stefanos Geroulanos and Dan Edelstein, she is co-editor of Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History (Chicago, 2020), and, with Peter Becker, Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands (Oxford, 2021). Her work has appeared in Past & Present and the London Review of Books. She was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin for the 2019-20 academic year.