Sweeney, Dennis
Dr. Dennis Sweeney
(Associate Professor)
Ph.D., University of Michigan (1994)
M.A., University of Virginia (1988)
B.A., University of Virginia (1983)
2-56 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-2948
dsweeney@ualberta.ca
| Expertise & Research Interests |
Modern German and European history, social and cultural history, historical method and theory
Research: labour and social movements; capitalism, class, and gender; state formation; empire and racism; liberalism, socialism, and radical nationalism
Current research project: book-length study of the German political Right, imperialist ideology, and the invention of the racial state from 1890 to 1923
| Teaching |
Modern German History
Modern European History
Historical Method and Theory
| Publications |
Selected Publications
Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009)
“Rethinking the Modernity Paradigm: Reform Movements, the Social and the State in Wilhelmine Germany,” Social History 31 (2006): 405-34
“Liberalism, the Worker and the Limits of Bourgeois Öffentlichkeit in Wilhelmine Germany, German History 22 (2004): 36-75
“Cultural Practice and Utopian Desire in German Social Democracy:” Reading Adolf Levenstein’s Arbeiterfrage,” Social History 28 (2003): 174-201
“Corporatist Discourse and Heavy Industry in Wilhelmine Germany: Factory Culture and Employer Politics in the Saar,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 43 (2001): 701-34.