William Oldson

Professor of History
Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience

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Professor William Oldson received his B.A. from Spring Hill College in 1965 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1966 and 1970 respectively from Indiana University, where he specialized in the history of the Balkans and the Habsburg monarchy. Since 1969 he has taught at Florida State University. He serves as Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience. His research has centered on modern Romanian history and the Holocaust, resulting in three books, The Historical and Nationalistic Thought of Nicolae Iorga (East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1973), A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth Century Romania (American Philosophical Society, 1991), and The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in 18th Century Transylvania (East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 2005). The book on anti-Semitism was awarded the American Philosophical Society's John Frederick Lewis Prize for "the outstanding book of the year." Professor Oldson is currently working on a monograph on the background to Romania’s participation in World War II and the Holocaust, tentatively entitled "Superfluous Jews": Anti-Semitism and the Background to the Romanian Holocaust. He has also been a Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Fellow of the International Research and Exchanges Board, a recipient of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Historic Preservation Medal, and a two time winner of the University Teaching Award.

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				William Oldson Professor of History Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience Homepage Institue on World War II and the Human Experience Professor William Oldson received his B.A. from Spring Hill College in 1965 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1966 and 1970 respectively from Indiana University, where he specialized in the history of the Balkans and the Habsburg monarchy. Since 1969 he has taught at Florida State University. He serves as Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience. His research has centered on modern Romanian history and the Holocaust, resulting in three books, The Historical and Nationalistic Thought of Nicolae Iorga (East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1973), A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth Century Romania (American Philosophical Society, 1991), and The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in 18th Century Transylvania (East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 2005). The book on anti-Semitism was awarded the American Philosophical Society's John Frederick Lewis Prize for "the outstanding book of the year." Professor Oldson is currently working on a monograph on the background to Romania’s participation in World War II and the Holocaust, tentatively entitled "Superfluous Jews": Anti-Semitism and the Background to the Romanian Holocaust. He has also been a Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Fellow of the International Research and Exchanges Board, a recipient of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Historic Preservation Medal, and a two time winner of the University Teaching Award.