Pieter M. Judson

Pieter M. Judson is part-time Professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2014 to 2024, he held the Chair in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History at the EUI. Before that he taught at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History and International Relations. Judson holds a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (1987). He is the author or co-editor of five books and several articles and chapters dealing with the history of Habsburg Central Europe in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. His The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Harvard-Belknap, 2016), has been translated into twelve European and Asian languages, and in 2025 Oxford University Press will publish The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (written with Tara Zahra). Judson has served as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook (2006-2016) and as President of the Central European History Society of North America (2020-2022). He has received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, Marshall, the NEH, the American Academy in Berlin, Phi Beta Kappa, and in 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize.