Courses
- 2024 Spring
- HST 495/496 Distinction Thesis in History
- HST 363 Germany Since 1945
- HST 401 Senior Seminar - Food and Foodways
- 2023 Fall
- HST 495 Distinction Thesis in History
- HST/JSP 362 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- HST 300 Selected Topics - Food in Modern Europe
- 2023 Spring
- HST 316 Europe Since 1945
- HST 803 Theories and Philosophies of History
- 2022 Fall
- HST/JSP 362 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- HST 300 Selected Topics - Commodities & the Mdrn World
- 2022 Spring
- HST 301 Practicum in the Study of History
Highest degree earned
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2018
Bio
Robert Terrell is a historian of modern Germany and Europe. His first book project, "The People’s Drink: A Bottom-Fermented History of Modern Germany" reveals how brewers, regulators, and cultural intermediaries in Bavaria shaped both the structures and discourses of the German nation. His second project examines connections between the Weimar Republic and the post-Ottoman Middle East. He is co-organizer of the Central New York Humanities Corridor working group Research and Narrative in Modern European History.
Areas of Expertise
Modern Germany and Europe, commodity and food history, global and transnational history, the history of Islam and Muslims in Europe.
Selected Publications
- Book
- Terrell, R. S., A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany. Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Journal Articles
- Terrell, R. S., "Entanglements of Scale: The Beer Purity Law from Bavarian Oddity to German Icon, 1906-1975." Contemporary European History, 2023.
- Terrell, R. S., "Building the Berlin Mosque: An Episode in Weltpolitik." In Contemporary European History. , 2021.
- Book Chapter
- Terrell, R. S., "‘Lurvenbrow’: Bavarian Beer Culture and Barstool Diplomacy in the Global Market, 1945-1964." In Alcohol Flows Across Cultures: Drinking Cultures in Comparative and Transnational Perspective. Routledge, 2020.
- Book Reviews
- Terrell, R. S., "Malcolm F. Purinton, 'Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire'." H-Sci-Med-Tech, 2024.
- Terrell, R. S., "Adam T. Rosenbaum. Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950.." H-TGS, 2023.
- Terrell, R. S., Westermann, E. B., "Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany." In Central European History. , 2022.
- Terrell, R. S., Foda, O. D., "Egpyt’s Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State." In Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. , 2020.
- Terrell, R. S., Weinreb, A., "Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth Century." In Global Food History. , 2018.
- Terrell, R. S., Gesellschaft in der Europäischen Integration seit den 1950er Jahren: Migration – Konsum – Sozialpolitik – Repräsentationen. Bauerkämper , A., Kaelble, H. (eds.) Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015.