Nicole Phelps

Nicole Phelps is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont. She received her BA summa cum laude in from The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and her MA and PhD in American and European history from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of U.S.-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference (Cambridge, 2013; paperback in 2015). The dissertation on which the book was based won the Austrian Cultural Forum Dissertation Prize and the University of Minnesota’s Best Dissertation Prize in the Arts in Humanities; it also received an honorable mention for the Unterberger Dissertation Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). As a graduate student, she served for several years as the assistant editor of the Austrian History Yearbook, and she is now on the editorial board for the Journal of Austrian-American Studies, Contemporary Austrian Studies, and Diplomatic History. Her current research project is a study of the US Consular Service from 1789 to 1924.