George Vascik

Education

• Ph.D., Modern German History, University of Michigan
• M.A., Medieval European History, Duke University
• B.A., Medieval European History, University of Toledo

Scholarly Interests

A 1988 graduate of the University of Michigan, I have taught history at Miami University since 1992. My research focuses on rural politics in northwest Germany.

I am completing a monograph for Bloomsbury Press, Anti-Semitism and Rural Politics, which will appear in Fall 2026. You can follow this project at peasantsandjews.org.

Along with a former student, Mark Sadler, I published a book of primary documents on the Stab-in-the-Back Myth, also from Bloomsbury Press.

In my career at Miami, I have taught numerous upper-division courses in European history since 1750. Now entering the latter years of my career, I have decided to focus on the Western Civilization survey. With the new millennium, I became evermore interested in using the Internet to deepen student learning. See my ongoing course blog, Thoughts on Western Civilization.

Teaching and Research Interests

• Modern Germany
• Rural History
• Spatial History
• Western Civilization

Courses Taught

• HST 121 Western Civilization to 1500
• HST 122 Western Civilization since 1500
• HST 197 World History to 1500

Selected Publications

• The Stab-in-the-Back Myth and the Fall of Weimar Germany, Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
• "Peasants and Politics: How GIS Offers New Insights into the German Countryside,” The Routledge Handbook of Spatial History, June 2017.
• Antisemitism and Rural Politics, Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2018.