Dominique Kirchner Reill
A Historian's Portfolio
My work focuses on the social, cultural, and intellectual worlds of Southern Europe from Napoleon to today, mostly in the lands once under Habsburg control, today located in Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia. My time has been spent primarily on trying to disentangle the complicated stories of those who lived around the Adriatic Sea, though I have moonlighted into thinking beyond its shores and after the Habsburgs lost their hold. Recently I've begun throwing myself in to discovering more about the millions of people who moved back and forth between Europe and the Americas at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Their stories tell so much about about everything I care about.
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Dominique Kirchner Reill is a Professor in History at the University of Miami and currently a yearlong Resident Senior Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Institute for Advanced Study. Her first book, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice, was published by Stanford University Press in 2012 and was awarded the Center for Austrian Studies’ Book Award and Honorable Mention from the Smith Award. Her next book, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire came out in 2020 with Harvard University’s Belknap Press and received an Honorable Mention from the Jelavich Book Prize, as well as unanimous acclaim. A Croatian translation of The Fiume Crisis came out with Ljevak in 2024. At the HWK she is working on her next manuscript “The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello LaGuardia,” while also serving as President of the Central European History Society, co-founder and co-organizer of the Central European History Convention to be held in Vienna July 2025, an Executive member of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, a board member of the journal Contemporary European History, and a member of the board of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies.