Tom Emmert joined the Gustavus History Department in 1973. A native of Minnesota, Tom developed his passion for history and Eastern Europe while a student at St. Olaf College. He studied in Yugoslavia and at Oxford University as an undergraduate and the rest, as they say, is history. He enjoyed six years of graduate education at Stanford University, where he felt very privileged to work with the eminent Balkanist, Wayne S. Vucinich. Trained as a specialist in medieval Serbia, Emmert prepared his doctoral dissertation in Belgrade as a Fulbright Scholar under the tutelage of the leading Serbian medievalist, Sima Cirkovic. At Gustavus, Tom teaches the European history survey, as well as courses on both Imperial and modern Russia, the Ottoman Empire, 19th century European intellectual and cultural movements, and Balkan nationalism. He is best known for the following publications: Serbian Golgotha: Kosovo, 1389 (New York, NY: East European Monographs, 1990); Kosovo: Legacy of a Medieval Battle (Minneapolis, MN: Mediterranean Monographs, 1991), editor with W.S.Vucinich; Conflict in Southeastern Europe at the End of the Twentieth Century: A 'Scholars' Initiative Assesses Some of the Controversies (London:Routledge, 2006), editor with Charles Ingrao; Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2009), editor with Charles Ingrao.
Tom loves travel, music, gardening, good food, and great conversation. During his years at Gustavus he has directed two semester-long programs in Zagreb, Croatia and two others in Wittenberg and Berlin, Germany. In January Term, 2011, his is offering an exciting new travel course entitled "The New Europe in Eastern Germany." Please feel free to contact him with any questions you may have about this travel/study opportunity.
Tom is chair of the History Department for the period, 2008-2011.
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Gustavus Adolphus College
800 West College Avenue
Saint Peter, MN 56082
Phone: 507-933-7432
E-mail: tomo@gustavus.edu
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