Overview
Austin is a Ph.D. student in the history department at Duke. His regions of study include Germany and Eastern Europe specifically and the World more generally. He studies the environment, the military, nationalism, and colonialism in the German Empire during the nineteenth century and World War I. His research has focused primarily on the dichotomy between German soldiers and war propagandists fighting and living on the Eastern Front from 1914 until 1918. He researches how the environment impacted different groups of people during wartime and seeks to understand how these moments of drastic violence transformed the people living in these regions and the environment itself. Austin's dissertation project will aim to understand how alcohol and beer culture molded the experiences of soldiers and effectiveness of the Bavarian army from 1900 to 1918.
B.A. University of California, Riverside, 2020
M.A. California State University, Long Beach, 2024
U.S. Department of State Title VIII Fellowship Recipient, 2023
Languages: German (C1), Lithuanian (A2)
B.A. University of California, Riverside, 2020
M.A. California State University, Long Beach, 2024
U.S. Department of State Title VIII Fellowship Recipient, 2023
Languages: German (C1), Lithuanian (A2)