First Year Advisor,
Assistant Teaching Professor
University of Notre Dame
Historian of Modern Central & Eastern Europe
Mark T. Kettler is a First Year Advisor and Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Mark is a historian of Germany and East-Central Europe who studies imperialism and colonialism to analyze larger questions of national identity and the relationship of ethnic minorities to the modern state. He is currently working on a manuscript, provisionally entitled The Knight, Death, and the Devil. The book examines the German occupation of Russian Poland in WWI, arguing that this occupation fundamentally transformed how German military, political, and intellectual elites understood the relationship between ethnic diversity and imperial stability.
Mark received his PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018. His work has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Winner: 2020 Huttenbach Prize
The Association for the Study of Nationalities selected my first article, "Designing Empire for the Civilized East: Colonialism, Polish Nationhood, and German War Aims in the First World War," for the 2020 Huttenbach Prize, awarded annually to the best article published in Nationalities Papers in the course of the Previous Year. Read my interview with the ASN here.
