Nicole Eaton
Former Title VIII Research Scholar
Professional Affiliation
Assistant Professor of History, Boston College
Expert Bio
Nicole Eaton is an Associate Professor of History at Boston College. Her research interests include nationalism, communism, fascism, ethnic cleansing, borderlands, urban history, the Second World War, environmental history and the history of medicine in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Her 2023 book, German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi K枚nigsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad, was the winner of the 2024 ASEEES Reginald Zelnik prize for an outstanding monograph on the history of Eurasia and received honorable mention for the Bruce Lincoln Prize for outstanding first monograph in Russian history and for the German Studies Association and German Academic Exchange Service book prize. It was named one of Foreign Affairs best books of 2023.
浪花直播 Center Project
鈥淓xclave: Politics, Ideology, and Urban Space in K枚nigsberg-Kaliningrad鈥
Project Summary
Nicole Eaton's research interests include social history and microhistory, Nazism and Stalinism. Her book manuscript focuses on a single decade of politics, and everyday life, and the German-Soviet encounter in K枚nigsberg-Kaliningrad鈥攗nique as the only place ruled by both Nazi Germany and Stalin鈥檚 Soviet Russia as their own patrimony. Her work explores the way both regimes attempted to transform the city's urban space and its inhabitants, arguing that the intersection of national prescriptions and local conditions gave rise to conflicting practices. During her term at Kennan, she will work on revising manuscript for publication by researching the broader context of German and Soviet occupations, postwar urban rebuilding, nationalities policies, and forced migrations.
Major Publications
"German Bodies, Soviet Medicine: Ideology, Disease, and Contamination in Kaliningrad, 1945-1948" (under review)
