Dominique Kirchner Reill specializes in Modern European history with particular emphases on the Nineteenth Century, post-World War I Europe, post-World War II Europe, regionalism, nationalism, southern Europe, Italy, the Balkans, as well as cultural and intellectual history. Born in Los Angeles, she was raised and educated in both California and the former BRD (West Germany). She received her Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in 1997, during which time she also studied at the Università di Bologna. She also studied Croatian language and literature at the Filozofski fakultet in Zagreb and Serbian language and literature in Belgrade. She received her Ph.D. with Distinction from Columbia University in 2007. Prior to coming to Miami, she taught at both Columbia and New York Universities. She received tenure within the University of Miami’s History Department in 2013, when she was also awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the University of Miami’s College of Arts & Sciences in recognition of her scholarly and creative activities. Professor Reill’s first monograph, titled Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice, was published by Stanford University Press in 2012 and received an Honorable Mention from the Southern Historical Association’s 2012 Smith Book Award for European History, where it was described as a "superb book: tightly analyzed, engagingly written, and path-breaking." Nationalists Who Feared the Nation examines a group of local activists living in mid-nineteenth-century Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia (part of current-day Croatia) who pushed for the formation of a multi-national Adriatic commercial, cultural, and political space. These multi-national activists regarded their project as realist not utopian, arguing that in a trade-oriented maritime world where Italian, German, and Slavic dialects were used interchangeably and residents adhered to either Catholic, Christian Orthodox, Jewish, or Protestant faiths, no one language or national identity could be promoted without provoking intolerance and bloodshed. Professor Reill has published several articles and presented extensively on issues related to this research (for a detailed list, consult the attached CV). Research for this work was conducted in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia and was funded by the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, German Marshall Research Fellowship, Delmas Foundation Grant for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture, University of Miami’s Orovitz Research Fellowship, the Conference Group for Central European History, and the Whiting Foundation Fellowship among others. Currently, Professor Reill is writing a new book-length monograph that looks at the fascinating case of a centuries-old city-state’s resistance to President Woodrow Wilson’s plans for a Versailles-determined order of European nation-states. The working title of the manuscript is Rebel City: Fiume’s Challenge to Wilson’s Europe. To complete research and produce a draft of this manuscript Professor Reill received the 2012-2013 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and the 2013 Title VIII/ACLS Fellowship in East European Studies. She will return to Miami to resume teaching in Fall 2014. Professor Reill has also been an active member of Columbia University’s Institute for Social Economic Research and Policy (ISERP now INCITE) and NYU’s Remarque Institute. At the University of Miami, Professor Reill teaches courses on Nineteenth-Century Europe, post-World War I, and post-World War II Europe, Italy, and the Balkans.
