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About Leslie Waters
My work is on borderlands, territorial changes, and ethnic cleansing in 20th century Eastern Europe. I teach courses on European history, global history of human rights, ethnic cleansing and genocide, nationalism, history of socialism, and comparative borderlands. My next project is on the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and the economic and political re-imagining of Europe in the 1990s.NBN Episodes hosted by Leslie:
March 18, 2022
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany (Oxford UP, 2021) explores ways of thinking, feeling, and talking ab…
February 7, 2022
In the Kingdom of Shoes
One of the world's largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what mad…
November 9, 2021
Saving Nature Under Socialism
When East Germany collapsed in 1989-1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The comm…
October 12, 2021
In the Midst of Civilized Europe
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil o…
July 27, 2021
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Michal Kšiňan’s Milan Rastislav Štefánik: The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastis…
July 26, 2021
Protected Children, Regulated Mothers
Historian Eszter Varsa’s new book Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the 'Gypsy Question' in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956 (…