Dominique K. Reill

Dominique K. Reill is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Miami.

Dominique earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her research and writing focus on modern Europe, the Habsburg Empire, Italy, the Balkans, migration, nationalism, and socio-cultural and intellectual history. Her first book, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice, was awarded the Center for Austrian Studies’ Book Award. Her next, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire, received an Honorable Mention from the Jelavich Book Prize.

Dr. Reill is at work on her next book, tentatively titled The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello La Guardia. She also serves as an editor for the Purdue University Press book series, Central European Studies; a board member of the journal Contemporary European History; a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Italian Historical Studies; and a Steering Committee Member of the Modern European History Collective. She is also a past Botstiber Institute grantee.