Steve Jobbitt

Assistant Professor
Department of History

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Teaching interests: Modern European cultural and intellectual history; the history of nationalism; the history of lanscape and geography; world history; war, society and politics in twentieth-century Europe.

Research interests: The history and theory of identity and subjectivity; the history and theory of modernity and postmodernity; gender and the history of masculinity; the history of conservatism and political extreminsm; the history of Hungary; the history of "peripheral" European nations; the history of space and place; environmental history 

Brief biography: Though I have always had a passion for Europe and European history, my path to a position as an assistant professor of modern European history at Cal State Fullerton has hardly been a straight one.  As an undergraduate student at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, I did a double major in history and philosophy (spending more time with my philosophy books than anything else).  As an MA student at the same university I switched my focus to Canadian environmental history.  As a PhD student at the University of Toronto, I switched again, doing a major field in modern east central European history, and minor fields in modern Jewish history, and cultural history.  In my doctoral dissertation, which I defended in July 2008, I looked at right-wing identity formation in modern Hungary, focusing in particular on the life and work of Ferenc Fodor, a conservative-nationalist Hungarian geographer.