Dr John Paul Newman
Biography
Dr John Paul Newman is Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History. He is interested in the modern history of the Southeastern and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. His first book, Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State-Building, 1903-1945, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. He is currently working on a study of the birth, life, and afterlife of the Illyrian movement in the South Slav lands, provisionally titled 'Illyria Unbound: Reflections on Nation and Identity in Modern Central Europe' (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Research Interests
I am interested in the modern history of the Balkans and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. I welcome proposals from potential research students in any of these or related areas.
Research Projects
Book
Edited Book
Edited Journal Issue
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Karolina Lendák-Kabók, Hanna Lindberg, John Paul Newman (2024) Ethnic and Social Minorities in Twentieth-Century European Social Welfare. [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] | |
| 2024 | Orel Bielenson; John Paul Newman (2024) Suicide, War, and Peace in East-Central Europe, 1918-1968. [Edited Journal Issue] | |
| 2023 | Lucija Balikić; John Paul Newman; Vojtěch Pojar (2023) The Sokol Movement between State and Society in Interwar East-Central Europe. [Edited Journal Issue] | |
| 2021 | John Paul Newman; Lili Zach (2021) 1918 and the Old-New Europe. [Edited Journal Issue] | |
| 2019 | John Paul Newman (2019) Cultures of Victory and Victorious Societies in the Twentieth Century. [Edited Journal Issue] | |
| 2010 | Julia Eichenberg; John Paul Newman (2010) Aftershocks: Paramilitary Violence after World War One. [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Karolina Lendák-Kabók, Hanna Lindberg, John Paul Newman (2024) 'Minorities and the Making of Modern European Welfare: Introduction to Special Issue “Ethnic and Social Minorities in European Welfare”'. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 31 (2). [Link] | |
| 2024 | John Paul Newman, Karolina Lendák-Kabók (2024) 'War Veterans, Minorities, and Crisis Points in Yugoslav Welfare'. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 31 (2). [Link] | |
| 2024 | John Paul Newman (2024) 'Suicide and the Hermeneutics of Political and National Community in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic'. Slavic Review, 82 (3). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.280 [Full-Text] | |
| 2024 | John Paul Newman, Orel Beilinson (2024) 'Through a Glass Darkly: Introduction to Research Cluster'. Slavic Review, 82 (3). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.284 [Full-Text] | |
| 2023 | Newman, J.P. (2023) 'Paradoxes of the Czechoslovak Sokol Association in the Interwar Period'. East Central Europe, 50 . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2023 | Balikic, L.; Newman, J.P.; Pojar, V. (2023) 'Introduction: The Sokol Movement between State and Society in Interwar East Central and Southeastern Europe'. East Central Europe, 50 . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2021 | John Paul Newman, Lili Zach (2021) 'Introduction: 1918 and the Ambiguities of the Old-New Europe'. Nationalities Papers, 49 (4). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Adam Luptak, John Paul Newman (2020) 'Victory, Defeat, Gender, and Disability: Blind War Veterans in Czechoslovakia'. Journal of Social History, 53 (3). [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | John Paul Newman (2019) 'Loyalty for Loyalty: Volunteer Veterans and Entangled Cultures of Victory in Interwar Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia'. Journal of Contemporary History, 54 (3). [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | John Paul Newman (2019) '• ‘The Burden of Triumph: Introduction to Special Edition on Cultures of Victory and Victorious Societies in Twentieth Century Europe'. Journal of Contemporary History, 54 (3). [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Newman, JP; Scheer, T (2018) 'The Ban Jelacic Trust for Disabled Soldiers and Their Families: Habsburg Dynastic Loyalty beyond National Boundaries, 1849-51'. Austrian History Yearbook, 49 :152-165. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2017 | Newman, JP (2017) 'War Veterans, Fascism, and Para-Fascist Departures in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918-1941'. Fascism, 6 :42-74. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Dr John Paul Newman (2015) 'Habsburg and Serbian Military Institutional Legacies in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia'. First World War Studies, 5 . | |
| 2014 | Dr John Paul Newman (2014) 'Croats and Croatia in the Wake of the World War'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 24 . [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | John Paul Newman (2011) 'Through Snow and Red Fog: South Slav Soldiers in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond'. Irish Slavonic Studies, . [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'War in the Balkans 1914-1918'. War in History, 18 . [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'Serbian Integral Nationalism and Mass Violence in the Balkans 1903-1945'. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 124 . [Full-Text] | |
| 2010 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2010) 'Introduction: Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War'. Contemporary European History, 19 . [Full-Text] | |
| 2010 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2010) 'Post-Imperial and Post-War Violence in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes 1917-1923'. Contemporary European History, 19 . [Full-Text] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | John Paul Newman (2022) 'Veterans and Political Culture' In: Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. Amsterdam : Elsevier. | |
| 2021 | Balázs Apor, John Paul Newman (2021) 'Introduction' In: Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe. Purdue : Purdue University Press. | |
| 2019 | John Paul Newman (2019) ''A Croat Iliad? Miroslav Krleža and the Refractions of Victory and Defeat in Central Europe'' In: A World at War, 1911-1949. Leiden : Brill. | |
| 2018 | Newman J. (2018) 'Shades of empire: Austro-Hungarian officers, Frankists, and the afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918-1929' In: Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918. | |
| 2018 | John Paul Newman (2018) 'The Hollow Crown: Civil-Military Relations in Serbia 1903-1914' In: The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914. Rochester : University of Rochester Press. | |
| 2018 | John Paul Newman (2018) 'Alloying Dissent with Patriotism: Dragiša Vasić in Yugoslav Siberia' In: Inside World War One? The First World War and its Witnesses. Oxford : Oxford University Press. | |
| 2017 | John Paul Newman (2017) 'Revolution and Counter Revolution in Europe, 1917-1923' In: The Cambridge History of Communism, Volume One: World Revolution and Socialism in One Country. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2016 | Dr John Paul Newman (2016) 'Silent Liquidation? Croat Veterans and the Margins of War Memory in Interwar Yugoslavia' In: Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Great War in East-Central EUrope (ed.s John Paul Newman, Mark Cornwall). New York : Berghahn. | |
| 2015 | Dr John Paul Newman (2015) 'Serbia' In: The Wars Before the War 1912-1914 (William Mulligan et al, ed.). : Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2014 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2014) 'Times of Death: The First World War and Serbia's Twentieth Century' In: Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe 1918, 1945, 1989. : Ashgate. | |
| 2014 | Dr John Paul Newman (2014) 'War Refusal in the Croatian Countryside' In: Dans la Guerre 1914-1918: Accepter, Endurer, Refuser (Nicolas Beaupré, Heather Jones and Anne Rasmussen, eds.). : Les Belles Lettres. | |
| 2013 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2013) 'Allied Yugoslavia: Serbian Great War Veterans and their Internationalist Ties' In: John Paul Newman, Julia Eichenberg(Eds.). The First World War and Veterans' Internationalism. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 2012 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2012) 'The Origins, Attributes, and Legacies of Paramilitary Violence in the Balkans' In: Robert Gerwarth, John Horne(Eds.). War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War. Oxford : Oxford University Press. | |
| 2011 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'Les heritages de la Première Guerre mondiale en Croatie' In: François Bouloc, Rémy Cazals, André Loez(Eds.). Identités Troublées 1914-1918: Les appartenances sociales et nationales à l’épreuve de la guerre. | |
| 2011 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'Forging a United Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: The Legacy of the First World War and the ‘Invalid Question' In: Dejan Djokić , James Ker-Lindsay(Eds.). New Perspectives on Yugoslavia: Key Issues and Controversies. London : Routledge. [Full-Text] |
Encyclopedia Entry
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | John Paul Newman (2016) The Black Hand. 1914-1918 Online: [Encyclopedia Entry] [Link] | |
| 2014 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2014) Nationalism (Pre-war). [Encyclopedia Entry] | |
| 2012 | Newman, Dr John Paul (2012) Civilian and Military Power in South East Europe. [Encyclopedia Entry] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Newman, JP (2020) Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order. CHICAGO: [Book Review] | |
| 2020 | Newman, JP (2020) Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation. CHICAGO: [Book Review] | |
| 2018 | Newman, JP (2018) The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13. NEW YORK: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Newman, JP (2018) The Politics of Self-Determination: Remaking Territories and National Identities in Europe, 1917-1923. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Newman, JP (2018) Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914-1918. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Newman, JP (2018) A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars: From Versailles to Hitler's Invasion. LONDON: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Newman, JP (2017) Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War One. CAMBRIDGE: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Newman, JP (2017) Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | John Paul Newman (2016) Simon Hall '1956: The Year in Revolt'. [Book Review] [Link] | |
| 2016 | Newman, JP; Foster, S; Weaver, EB (2016) Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I. ABINGDON: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Newman, JP (2016) Making Yugoslavs: Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia. LONDON: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | John Paul Newman (2016) 'Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War One' (Book Forum). Journal of Genocide Research, 18/4: [Book Review] | |
| 2015 | Newman, JP (2015) The Sandzak: A History. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Dr John Paul Newman (2014) Josip Glaurdic, 'The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia'. [Book Review] | |
| 2014 | Newman, JP (2014) The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Mark Biondich 'The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence since 1878’. [Book Review] | |
| 2013 | Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Jonathan Gumz,‘The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia’. [Book Review] | |
| 2013 | Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Geoffrey Swain, 'Tito: A Biography'. [Book Review] [Full-Text] | |
| 2013 | Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Dejan Djokić 'Pašić and Trumbić: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes’. [Book Review] | |
| 2011 | Dr John Paul Newman (2011) Robert Pyrah, Marius Turda (eds.) ‘Re-contextualizaing East Central European History: Nation, Culture, and Minority Groups’. [Book Review] | |
| 2010 | Dr John Paul Newman (2010) • Maria Bucur, ‘Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania’. [Book Review] |
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