Joseph Patrouch, PhD, MA, BA
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - History, Classics, & Religion Dept
- patrouch@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
early modern European history Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Dynasty Vienna
About
I am a historian of Early Modern Europe, with a particular interest in the Holy Roman Empire and the lands ruled by members of the Habsburg Dynasty, both inside the Empire and elsewhere around Europe and the world. My primary chronological period of research concentration is between approximately 1550 and 1650.
Additional research interests include the roles of Habsburg women and their courts in early modern Europe, as well as early modern empire and urban studies. I have experience directing a program in Public History and am also interested in museum studies as well as in the study and commemoration of Canada's first national internment operations during and after World War One.
My current research project centers on the imagined and experienced landscapes of the Holy Roman Empire in the 1560's and 1570's.
Potential graduate students wishing to work with me in one of the above or related fields are encouraged to contact me well in advance of the admission application deadline.
Research
Recent book reviews
"Coro/nations: Research on the Performance of the Last Two Centuries of Habsburg Rule in Europe." Review of Klaas Van Gelder, editor, More Than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries. In: The Court Historian 28:3 (2023) 255-59.
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/A83VF3DPW3XKQ3IZ9QMY/full?target=10.1080/14629712.2023.2269717
Patrick Milton, Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780. In: History: Review of New Books 51:6 (2023) 144-46.
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FFCDTK2MMXDKQRGEZY8V/full?target=10.1080/03612759.2023.2265754
MIchael Hochedlinger, et al, eds, Verwaltungsgeschichte der Habsburgermonarchie in der Frühen Neuzeit: Hof und Dynastie, Kaiser und Reich, Zentralverwaltungen, Kriegswesen und landesfürstliches Finanzwesen. Journal of Modern History 95:2 (2023) 489-92.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724638
Peter Thaler, Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria, Austrian History Yearbook 53 (2022) 221-223.
https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0067237822000224
Luca Scholz, Borders & Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire, for H-Empire (March, 2022).
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57126
Conference Presentations and Lectures
"Global Habsburgs," International Workshop, "Dynastic History in Global Perspective," University of Vienna, June 2023.
"Approaches to Early Modern Habsburg Women," Institute of East European History, University of Vienna, June, 2023.
"Central Europe? Eastern Europe? Habsburg Empire? Where are we Today?" Symposium "The Unpredictable Past: Revisiting European, Russian, and Ukrainian Historical Studies" Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Banff, Alberta, May, 2023
"On the Paths of Peace: The Holy Roman Empire in 1570 as seen through the Travels of the Habsburg Court," Fifth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop, German Historical Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April, 2023.
Podcasts
"Exploring Central European History"
"Conversations about Austria"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/04amRt6N3hU8j4IRfy5l4O
Public Presentations
“Citizenship vs. Nationality: The Challenges Facing the Canadian Authorities during Canada’s First Internment Operations, 1914-1920,” Fernie Museum, Fernie, British Columbia, March, 2023.
"Walt Disney did not invent “Bambi: ”The Story behind Felix Salten (aka Siegmund Salzmann), the Viennese Jew who wrote
Bambi: A Story of Life in the Forest in 1922” [Online], Adult Education Program, Beth Shalom Synagogue, Edmonton, January, 2023.
Teaching
Fall Term, 2024:
HIST 290: Introduction to History as a Discipline
HIST 603: The History of Historical Writing
Announcements
In June, 2023 Professor Patrouch conducted archival research in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna. https://www.statearchives.gv.at/
In October, 2023 he led the international Quality Assurance review team which evaluated the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ihb/home
Professor Patrouch will be on research sabbatical from January-June, 2024. He will be traveling to Germany in April, 2024 to conduct research in the Nuremberg Staatsarchiv.
Courses
HIST 212 - Early Modern Europe
A survey of European history from approximately 1200 to 1800.
HIST 290 - Introduction to History as a Discipline
Introduction to the basic concepts of historical inquiry and techniques of research and writing in History. Course includes lectures and discussions. Required for History majors. Prerequisite: A previous course in History or consent of the Department.
HIST 310 - A History of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1526-1918
The multinational empire of the Habsburgs from the unification of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary to the destruction of the empire in World War I.
HIST 603 - History of Historical Writing
Featured Publications
Joseph F. Patrouch
Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences. 2021 January; Sylva Dobalová and Jaroslava Hausenblasová, eds., Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria: A Second-Born Son in Renaissance Europe
Anne, J. Cruz and Maria Galli Stampino, editors
2013 January;
Joseph F. Patrouch
2010 January;
Joseph F. Patrouch
Austrian History Yearbook. 2009 January; 40
Heinz Fassmann, Gerhard Hatz, Joseph F. Patrouch
2006 January;
Joseph F. Patrouch
2000 January;
Felice Lifshitz, Joseph F. Patrouch