Kevin J. Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Contact
Phone: 860.231.5370
E-mail:
kjcallahan@sjc.edu
For as long as he can remember, Kevin Callahan has been interested in all things European. Dr. Callahan lived with a German family at age 16, and that helped confirm for him what he wanted to do: "Become a professor and pursue a doctorate in the field." The highlight of Dr. Callahan's early adulthood was spent in Vienna, Austria, where he taught English in a Viennese high school for two years before starting graduate studies.
Alongside traditional topics like the history of Germany and Russia, Dr. Callahan enjoys teaching unconventional subjects like Sex, Freud and Morality in 1900 Vienna, Holocaust and Film, and Women in World History. Dr. Callahan's teaching philosophy aims at creating active learners. Teaching methods are adjusted to the varied learning styles and abilities of the Saint Joseph College student population. Of utmost importance, a student enrolled in a Callahan classroom will learn quickly that the past is full of interpretation and debate. As a result, students learn to work with primary sources and documents in order to draw their own conclusions about historical events.
Dr. Callahan has a strong commitment to research, both in his own scholarship on European socialism and historiography and in encouraging student research in his classes. Outside of the classroom and the archive, Dr. Callahan has found another outlet for his love of scholarship as co-chair of the College Symposium, a campus-wide academic conference that gives students an opportunity to share their research with a larger audience. Dr. Callahan adds: "I enjoy teaching at Saint Joseph College because it's a place where individuals matter. It's a very humane environment."
Degrees
Ph.D., Indiana University
B.A., Skidmore College
Research/Publications
Dr. Callahan's primary research explores the way European socialist parties of the pre-World War I period fashioned a new political culture based on mass politics and the elements of public performance and spectacle. Dr. Callahan is also engaged in the study of European historians and historiography.
Publications
Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah Curtis eds., Creating Identities in Modern France," University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, forthcoming.
"The Problem of French Sectarianism and Identity Politics in the Second International, 1889-1900," in eds. Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah Curtis, Creating Identities in Modern France, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, forthcoming.
"Marc Ferro," in ed. Philip Daileader, French Historians, 1900-2000, a volume of Dictionary of Literary Biography, Bruccoli Clark Book: Columbia, South Carolina, forthcoming.
Contributions on "Fourierism," "Saint-Simonism," "Anarchism," and "Austrian Left" in ed. Rodney Carlisle, Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, 2005.
"The International Socialist Peace Movement on the Eve of World War I Revisited: The Campaign of 'War against War!' and the Basle International Socialist Congress in 1912," Peace and Change , 29, 147-176, April 2004.
"Performing 'Inter-Nationalism' in Stuttgart in 1907: French and German Socialist Nationalism and the Political Culture of an International Socialist Congress," International Review of Social History , 42, 51-87, 2000.
Fellowships/Honors
Board Member of Peace History Society
Research Fellowship at the Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, 2000-2001
German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD) Research Fellowship, 1998-1999
J. William Fulbright Research Fellowship to the Netherlands, 1998-1999 (declined)
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Dutch, Indiana University, 1997-1998
