Jim Bjork

Biography

"Jim Bjork joined the Department in 2005 as Lecturer in Modern European History. He has previously taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the US at the universities of Notre Dame, Rice, and Colgate, and he has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for German and European Studies (Georgetown University) and the Institute of European Studies (Cornell University). Jim received his PhD from the University of Chicago.   From 2012 to 2015, Jim Bjork served as the first director of the Liberal Arts BA at King’s. "   "Jim Bjork joined the Department in 2005 as Lecturer in Modern European History. He has previously taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the US at the universities of Notre Dame, Rice, and Colgate, and he has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for German and European Studies (Georgetown University) and the Institute of European Studies (Cornell University). Jim received his PhD from the University of Chicago.   From 2012 to 2015, Jim Bjork served as the first director of the Liberal Arts BA at King’s. "  

Research Interest

"the social history of religion in modern Europe history of nationalism in modern Europe supranational identifications in modern Central Europe, especially Germany and Poland."