Elizabeth Van Meer

Adjunct Professor

Address: Maybank Hall 212
Office Hours: by appointment and posted
Phone: 843.953.6445
E-mail: vanmeerb@cofc.edu

Elisabeth van Meer has taught at the College of Charleston since 2008. She previously was a visiting professor at Presbyterian College. Dr. van Meer was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in History of Science and Technology. Her research involves the international technological, cultural, and political history of East Central Europe, particularly interwar Czechoslovakia. She enjoys teaching special topics and survey courses in Modern European and World history.

Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Research Interests

Technology and Culture, East Central Europe, International History

Courses Taught

Inventing Modern Europe
Visions of “America” in Europe
Technology and Culture in World History
Surveys in Western Civilization and World History

Honors and Awards

Junior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, East European Studies Program
University of Minnesota Dissertation Fellowship
Fulbright Fellow

Publications

“’The Nation is Technological:’ Technical Expertise and National Competition in
the Bohemian Lands, 1800-1914.” In Expert Cultures in Central Eastern Europe: The Internationalization of Knowledge and the Transformation of Nation States since World War I, edited by Martin Kohlraush, Stefan Wiederkehr, and Katrin Steffen, 85-104. Osnabrück: Fibre Verlag, 2010.  

 Dissertation, “Engineering beyond Politics: Professional Identity, Scientific Management and the Evolution of Czechoslovakia, 1848-1948.”