Michael Cude, PhD
Classes Taught
- Modern East European & Russian History
- Modern West European History
- World Wars in Europe
- Ancient to Medieval Europe
- US Immigration History
- Ancient and Classical Greece
- Fantasy and Horror in European History
- Historical Methods
- Historical Discourses (Senior Capstone)
- United States and the World
- United States Foreign Relations since 1898
- United States Society and Diplomacy during the World Wars
- Korea and US-East Asian Relations
- World Civilization to 1600
- World Civilization since 1600
- United States History to 1865 (1877)
- United States History since 1865 (1877)
- Texas History
Publications
- Woodrow Wilson: The First World War and Modern Internationalism. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2024.
- The Slovak Question: A Transatlantic Perspective, 1914–1948. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. – Winner of the 2022 Slovak Studies Association’s Best Book Prize
- History Snapshots: Europe, Ancient and Classical. Hunt, Tx: Hexco Academic, 2020.
- Co-author with Ellen Paul, “Czechoslovakia” in East Central European Migrations during the Cold War: A Handbook, ed. Anna Mazurkiewicz (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019): 101-135.
- “The Transatlantic Slovak Question in the Interwar Period,” Slovakia (2019) 44, 82 & 83: 18-59.
- “Wilsonian National Self-determination and the Slovak Question during the Founding of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1921,” Diplomatic History (2016) 40, 1: 155-180
- “The Imagined Exiles: Slovak-Americans and the Slovak Question during the First Czechoslovak Republic,” in From Exsilium to Exile: Coercion in Migration, Studia Historica Gedanensia, vol. 5, ed. Anna Mazurkiewicz (Gdansk, Poland: University of Gdansk History Institute, 2014): 287-305
- Historical Consultant/Editor, History Snapshots, 1900-1945: US Timeline, National History Bee (Hunt, Tx: Hexico Academic, 2018).
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2013
- M.A., History, University of Liverpool, UK, 2007
- B.A., International Relations, Texas State University, 2006
Research and Teaching Areas
- Central & Eastern Europe
- Immigration
- Nationalism
- International Relations & Diplomacy
- First and Second World War
- The Cold War and Communism
- U.S. and the World
Awards and Recognitions
- 2022 Slovak Studies Association’s Best Book Prize
- 2024 Schreiner University Award of Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity
- Slovak Studies Association: Elected Officer at large, 2024 to present
