Rebecca Matzke

  Rebecca Matzke

 

Education

  • B.A. in history and English, University of Nebraska
  • M.A. in history, Cornell University
  • Ph.D. in modern British history, modern European history, United States diplomatic history, Cornell University

 

Current Courses Taught

  • HIS 101  Introduction to the Study of History
  • HIS 236  20th Century Europe
  • HIS 281  World History to 1500
  • HIS 282  World History from 1500
  • HIS 300  Cold War (with Prof. B. McGowan)
  • HIS 351  World War I
  • HIS 353  British Empire after 1783
  • HIS 354  Modern Germany (unification to reunification)
  • HIS 362  Topics in the History of the Modern Middle East
  • HIS 480  Senior Seminar
  • HIS 490  Senior Seminar

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • Trustee Research Grant, 2010-11
  • May Bumby Severy Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, 2009
  • Fellowship, West Point Summer Seminar in Military History, 2008
  • Scholarly and artistic grant, Ripon College, 2008
  • Travel grants, Ripon College, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
  • Curriculum development grants, Ripon College, 2004-05, 2006-07
  • Colleague teaching grants, Ripon College, 2004-05, 2006-07
  • Mellon Fellowship, History Department, Cornell University, 1999-2000
  • Gertrude Spencer Prize for outstanding teaching in a First-Year Writing Seminar, J.S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, spring 1999

 

Professional Associations

  • American Historical Association
  • Society for Military History

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • Deterrence Through Strength: British Naval Power and Foreign Policy under Pax Britannica, University of Nebraska Press, 2011
  • Review, History, Commemoration, and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805-2005, edited by Holger Hoock (2007).  Journal of British Studies, Jan. 2009 (Vol. 48, no. 1, pp.257-258)
  • Review essay, “Gordon: A Victorian Life of Adventure and Service,” onGordon: Victorian Hero by Brad Faught (2008).  History Reviews of New Books, Spring 2009 (Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 89-92)
  • Review,  Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918 by Mitchell A. Yokelson (2008). Journal of British Studies, July 2009 (Vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 802-803)
  • “Britain Gets Its Way: Power and Peace in Anglo-American Relations, 1838-1846,” War In History (8:1), 2001
  • “A Common Colonial Interest – Themes in British Propaganda to the United States During the Great War,” Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, TX, Sept. 2008
  • “Imperialists Like Us: Colonist Themes in British Propaganda for Americans in the Great War.”  Mid-Atlantic conference on British Studies, Baltimore, Md, March 2008
  • Panel Chair, “Perceptions of World War I,” Missouri Valley History Conference, March 2008
  • “Historicizing the Middle East.” ACM Teaching History Surveys Workshop, Monmouth College, April 2007
  • Panel Chair, “Political and Religious Conflict in Seventeenth-Century Britain,” Missouri Valley History Conference, March 2007

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Modern British history
  • Modern European history
  • Naval and military history, particularly 19th-century British, World War I and Cold War
  • Modern American and European diplomatic history
  • World History