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Associate Chair, History
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Associate Professor, History
Presentations
- “East German Mining Abroad as Informal Imperialism,” German Studies Association Conference.
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 10/06/2023.
- “East Germans in Mongolia: Families, Separation, and Assignments Abroad,” German Studies Association Conference .
Conference Paper,
Presented, 09/18/2022.
- “Solidarity and Socialist Riches: East German Diplomacy, Environment, and Technology, 1949-1989,” Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah.
Presentation,
Presented, 02/09/2022.
- “Reflections on Teaching Statements and the Job Market,” Association for Slavic, East European, Eurasian Studies Conference.
Other,
Presented, 12/02/2021.
- “Saving Nature Under Socialism: Exploring the Intersections of History and Environmentalism,” Westminster College.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 11/04/2021.
- “Socialist Friendship and Fraught Relations: East German Experts in Mongolia, 1955-1989,” German Studies Association Conference.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 10/03/2021.
- Saving Nature under Socialism (virtual) -- University of Wyoming.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 03/23/2021.
- Beyond Umweltschutz: Narrative and Visual Responses to Environmental Threats,.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 10/03/2020.
- “East German Water Management Experts in Mongolia, 1960-1980,” German Studies Association Conference, October 2019.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 10/04/2019.
- Round Table, "Toward a Global Perspective in German History," German Studies Association Conference.
Other,
Presented, 10/04/2019.
- Public Talk on “The Central Powers in World War I,” Utah State Historical Society’s World War I Commission, April 25, 2019.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 04/25/2019.
- “’The Black Triangle’: Environmental Pollution and Frustration in a Central European Borderland,” Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 12/08/2018.
- “Environmental Activism in East Germany: A Local and Transnational Movement under Communism, 1975-1989,” Social Movements after 1968 Conference, Rutgers University.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 11/09/2018.
- “’God’s Creation’ In and Out of Socialism: Environmentalism, East German Protestant Clergy, and the World Council of Churches, 1975-1985,” German Studies Association Conference.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 09/30/2018.
- Interactive Approaches to Teaching 20th-Century German History, American Historical Association.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 01/04/2018.
- "Defending God's Creation: Dictatorship, Nature, and Society in East Germany," Black Hills State University
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Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 12/06/2017.
Languages
English, fluent.
German, fluent.
Polish, functional.
Geographical Regions of Interest
Eastern Europe
Europe
Germany
Poland
Publications
- “A River Runs Through It: The Elbe, Socialist Security, and East Germany’s Borders,” Central European History 56, No. 2 (June 2023), Special Issue on “The GDR’s Global Borders.”.
Published, 06/01/2023.
- Julia E. Ault (2022). • Nina Lorkowski, Warmes Wasser – Weiße Ware: Energiewende im Badezimmer, 1880-1939. Leiden, The Netherlands: Ferdinand Schoegingh Verlag, 2021. (pp. 617-618). Vol. 55. Central European History (Journal), Cambridge University Press.
Published, 12/31/2022.
- Julia E. Ault (2022). Environmental Thought: A Short History . By Robin Attfield. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. 268 pp. Images, bibliography, index. US$69.95 (cloth); US$24.95 (paper); US$20.00 (e-book). (pp. 801-803). Vol. 27. Environmental History (University of Chicago Press Journals).
Published, 10/01/2022.
https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.ezproxy.lib.utah...
- Julia E Ault (2022). • Stefan Dorondel and Stelu Şerban, editors. A New Ecological Order: Development and Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. H-Net.
Published, 09/01/2022.
https://networks.h-net.org/node/19397/reviews/1105...
- Julia E. Ault, Stefan Couperus & Liesbeth van de Grift (2022). Dictatorship and Environment: East Germany and the Limits of Change. Journal of Modern European History. Vol. 20, 294-298.
Published, 08/03/2022.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1611...
- Julia E. Ault, Friederike Brühöfener, Belinda Davis & Stephen Milder (2022). East German Environmental Activism and the West: Connections, Common Ground, and Difference Across the Iron Curtain. Berghahn Books.
Published, 07/18/2022.
https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800735651
- Julia E. Ault & Thomas Fleischman (2022). GERMANY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE END OF COMMUNISM: A CONVERSATION. (pp. 227-240). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Published, 02/08/2022.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-the-new-glob...
- Julia E. Ault (2021). Polluted Waters: The Elbe, East German Borders, and Regulating Rivers. Central European History (Cambridge University Press).
Accepted, 10/08/2021.
- Julia E. Ault (2021). Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990. Cambridge University Press.
Published, 09/09/2021.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/saving-nature...
- Julia E. Ault (2020). Review of Thomas Fleischman, Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall. Seattle. (pp. 686-687). Vol. 38. German History (Journal), Oxford University Press.
Published, 12/01/2020.
https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghaa067