CURRICULUM VITA
GRAYDON A. TUNSTALL
Department of History, University of South Florida,
4202 East Fowler Ave SOC107, Tampa FL 33620-8100
Phone: (813) 974-1045 Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Modern European History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1974)
M.A. Modern European History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (1970)
A.B. History, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (1963)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2000-present
Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
1993-2000
Associate Professor of European History
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1990-1993
Visiting Professor of European History
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
1991-1993
Post-Graduate Seminar in Military History
United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
1988-1990
Visiting Professor of European History
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
1987 - 1988
Vice President for Advancement
St. Johns, The Great Book College, Santa Fe, New Mexico
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The Verdun of the East: Fortress Przemyśl in World War I. (IN, Indiana University Press, 2014)
The Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I (UK, Cambridge University Press, 2014)
World War I and its Effects upon World History (IL, Harlan-Davidson Publishers, Inc., 2016)
Essays on World War I, Editor (NY, Columbia University Press, 2012)
Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War 1915 (KS, University Press of Kansas, 2010)
Planning for War Against Russia and Serbia: Austro-Hungarian and German Military Strategies, 1871-1914
(NY: Columbia University Press, 1993)
ARTICLES
“The Military Collapse of the Central Powers,” 1914 - 1918 Online (Freie Universität Berlin, 2014)
“1911: Austria-Hungary on the Precipice,” in 1911 Preliminary Moves, 2011 Chief of Army History
Conference (Big Sky Publishing, 2011)
“The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1918,” in Essays on World War I (Columbia University
Press, 2012)
“Traitors or Scapegoats? The Desertion of Czech Soldiers in World War I,” in Essays on World War I
(Columbia University Press, 2011)
“The Young Turks on the Eve of the World War,” St. Mihiel Trip Wire, 2010
“Austria-Hungary and the Brusilov Offensive of 1916,” The Historian, vol. 70, no. 1, Spring 2008)
"Austria-Hungary," in The Origins of World War I (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003,
Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig, ed.)
"Der Karpatenkrieg 1915," in Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchiv (article in preparation)
"The Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I" (two-article series in preparation for publication in War in
History)
"The Carpathian Winter Campaign of 1915” in Essays on World War I (Columbia University Press, 2012)
"Austria-Hungary: A Great or Balkan Power?" in History in Dispute: World War I: First Series—History in
Dispute Vol. 9 (London, St. James Press, March 2002, Dennis Showalter, ed.)
"The Brusilov Offensive" in History in Dispute: World War I: First Series—History in Dispute Vol. 8
(London, St. James Press, June 2002, Dennis Showalter, ed.)
"The Habsburg Command Conspiracy: The Falsification of Historiography on the Outbreak of World War I"
(Vol. 27, Austrian History Yearbook, 1996)
"German and Austro-Hungarian War Planning and War Aims and the Concept of Mitteleuropa" in 20th
Century Hungary and the Great Powers, War and Society in Eastern Europe, Vol. XXXIII, (NY:
Columbia University Press, 1995)
"Németország és az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia hadvezetése és a Mitteleuropa-koncepció" in
Magyarország és a Nagyhatalmak a 20. Században (Budapest: Teleki László Alapítvány, 1995)
"A Pangermanizmus Víziója: Német Mitteleuropa-elképzelések az elsÅ világháború alatt" Rubicon,
August 1994
"Die Karpatenschlachten 1915" in Truppendienst (two-part series), Vols. 2 and 3, 1990
PAPERS & LECTURES
“The Carpathian Winter War and Fortress Przemyśl, 1914-1915,” World War One Historical Association,
Quantico, Virginia, September 2012.
“1911: Austria-Hungary on the Precipice,” 2011 Chief of Army History Conference, ‘1911: Preliminary
Moves’. 28-30 September 2010, Canberra, Australia.
“Integrating the Eastern and Western Front with the Middle East Theater during World War I,” Great War
Society, Los Angeles, CA, April 2005
"Gallipoli," Great War Society, Kansas City, MO, April 2004
“The Carpathian Winter War,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto,
Canada 2003
“The Eastern Front,” Western Front Association, Indianapolis, June 2003
"An Analysis of the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I," Society for Military History, Knoxville, TN,
May 2003
"The Eastern Front and the First World War," Western Front Association, Kansas City, MO, September 2002
"The Russian Campaign against Austria-Hungary Autumn 1914 and Carpathian
Campaign 1915" and "The Brusilov Offensive of June—November 1916 and its Consequences," Great
War Society Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2001
"Austro-Hungarian and German Military Relations in World War I," The Great War Society, St. Louis, 2000
"The Eastern, Italian and Balkan Fronts in WWI," Post-Graduate Seminar in Military History United States
Military Academy, West Point, June 1999
Panel Presenter, "The Desertion of Czech Soldiers in World War I: Was it Treason?," AAASS Conference,
Boca Raton, FL, September 1998
Panel Presenter, "The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1918," The Society for Military History
Conference, Wheaton, IL, April 1998
"The Historian as a Detective," The John C. Pflaum Memorial Lecture, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA,
1998
"Revolution in World War I Tactics," Post-Graduate Seminar in Military History, United States Military
Academy, West Point, June 1997
Panel Presenter, "New Perspectives on the Great War," American Historical Association National
Convention, New York, 1997. Panel Moderator: Dr. Dennis W. Showalter, Colorado College, Joint
Session of the Society for Military History and New York Military Affairs Symposium
"Historiography and the War of Illusion: A World War I Example," American Historical Association (AHA)
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 1996
"A Study in Strategy: Conrad von Hötzendorf and Austro-Hungarian Military Planning," American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) National Conference, Boston, November
1996
Guest Lecturer, University of Vienna, May 1996; Sorbonne, 1995
"1917: A Year of Revolution in Military Arts & Politics," Post-Graduate Seminar in Military History, United
States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1993
"The Brusilov Offensive 1916: 75th Anniversary," Post-Graduate Seminar in Military History United States
Military Academy, West Point, 1992.
"Operation Barbarossa," Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Bryn Mawr College, PA, 1992
"The Eastern Front in World War I," Post-Graduate Seminar in Military History United States Military
Academy, West Point, NY, 1991
"The Russian General Staff and the 1914 Mobilization," Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Dickinson College,
1991
"Conrad von Hötzendorf’s Strategy for a Two-Front War," Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Dickinson
College, 1990
"Conrad von Hötzendorf: The Flawed Genius," University of Paris Sorbonne, February 1986, International
Conference (by invitation)
Numerous lectures at various colleges and universities across the United States including, Montclair State
University, Indiana University, Mississippi State University, Widener University, Kansas State University,
Midwestern State University, East Tennessee University, Seton Hall University, University of South
Dakota, Dickinson College , Adrian College, Gonzaga University, Flagler College and University of
Cincinnati.
AWARDS
Superior Teacher Award in the Social Sciences (1991 & 1993), Lafayette College
SPECIALTY AREA
Central Europe and the Balkans
COURSES TAUGHT
World War I
World War II
War and Imperialism
War in the Twentieth Century
History of the Balkan Peninsula
Eastern Europe and the Balkans
War & Society in the 20th Century
Nationalism in Modern Europe
The Age of Total War
Twentieth Century Europe
Nineteenth Century Europe
Seminar in World War I History
World Cultures (Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America)
Early Modern Europe
History of Germany (undergraduate & graduate level)
Western Civilization
Reformation & Renaissance
Middle Ages
Vietnam & the American Experience
War and Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Wars of the Twentieth Century
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES & AFFILIATIONS
Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society, Executive Director (1994 to present)
American Historical Association
Association for Czechoslovakian History
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Association for the Study of Hungarian History
National Coordinating Council
Organization of American Historians
Society for Advancement of Habsburg Studies
Society for Military History
Southern History Association
The Historical Association
Western History Association
World War I Historical Association, Board Member