Susan Grunewald
Assistant Professor
223A Himes Hall
578-4490
Courses Taught
Undergradute:
Western Civilization Since 1500; Russia Since 1861; World War II; 20th Century Germany
Graduate:
Modern Europe; Digital History and Humanities
Current Research Interests
Soviet History, German History, WWII, Cold War, Digital Humanities, GIS
Education
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019
MA, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014
BA, Lafayette College, 2011
Awards and Honors
Title VIII Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia, 2024
LSU Society for Student Historians Rose Boneno Teaching Award, 2023
First Book Subvention Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2023
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2016-2017
Carnegie Mellon University A.W. Mellon Fellowship in Digital Humanities, 2016 and 2018
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Fellowship Russia, 2011-2012
Notable Articles
“Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer,” with Ruth Mostern, Programming Historian (March 2024).
“‘Victory or Siberia’: Imaginings of Siberia and the Memory of German POWs in the USSR,” German History 40 (March 2022).
“Findings Places in Text with the World Historical Gazetteer,” with Andrew Janco, Programming Historian (February 2022).
“Digital Spatial Methods for Soviet-German History: An Investigation of German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union, 1941-1956,” Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung Journal of East Central European Studies 70 (September 2021).
Book
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024).