Dr John Paul Newman

History, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies

Senior Lecturer

Rhetoric House
44
(01) 708 3326

Biography

Dr John Paul Newman is Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History. He is interested in the modern history of the Southeastern and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. His first book, Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State-Building, 1903-1945, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. He is currently working on a study of the birth, life, and afterlife of the Illyrian movement in the South Slav lands, provisionally titled 'Illyria Unbound: Reflections on Nation and Identity in Modern Central Europe' (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Research Interests


I am interested in the modern history of the Balkans and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. I welcome proposals from potential research students in any of these or related areas. 

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
IRC Scholarship for Sven Milekić: Croatian 1990s War Veterans – Creators or Transistor of the Homeland War narrative? PI How much, if in any way, have Croatian 1990s war veterans (branitelji-defenders) influenced the dominant narrative of the Homeland War – official name for Croatia’s 1990s war (known as the Homeland War)? How much have branitelji (defenders) influenced the dominant existing narrative and the interpretation of the 1990s war? Or was the narrative on the War created by politicians (leading rightist Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ and its founder and the first Croatian democratically elected President Franjo Tuđman) and media, while activities of war veterans’ organisation simply strengthen the narrative? Were war veterans included in creating the narrative of the war? How much are war veterans included in nation-building process? Potential sub-questions: how much does involvement in war making soldiers credible commentators of different events; how much have war veterans influenced the creation of the 1990s narrative of World War II and how much it is connected with the narrative of the Homeland War? 01/10/2018 30/09/2022 102124.86
ERC Starter Support Grant PI 3762
Eamonn Milliken 'German-Austrian Officer Veterans of the Great War in Military Service, 1918-45' PI Eamonn Milliken- IRC GOI POSTGRAD SCHOLARSHIP 01/09/2020 30/06/2022 55000
Healing War Wounds and Building the State: Disabled Veterans in the Interwar Polish Cities - Oksana Vynnyk PI 01/09/2023 30/06/2025 105604
SOCIOBORD Sub Contract PI 01/11/2021 30/04/2025 52500

Book

Year Publication
2018 John Paul Newman (2018) • Jugoslavija u senci rata ratni veterani i stvaranje nove države 1903-1945. Belgrade: Službeni glasnik.
2015 Dr John Paul Newman (2015) Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State-building 1903-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited Book

Year Publication
2023 John Paul Newman;Ljubinka Škodrić;Rade Ristanović (Ed.). (2023) Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1939-1945 Forms and Varieties. Amsterdam: Brill,
2021 Balazs Apor, John Paul Newman (Ed.). (2021) Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe. Purdue: Purdue University Press,
2018 Judith Devlin, Maria Falina (Ed.). (2018) World War One in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflict, and Military Experience. London: I.B.Tauris,
2016 Mark Cornwall, John Paul Newman (Ed.). (2016) Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Great War in East-Central Europe. New York, Oxford: Berghahn,
2013 Julia Eichenberg, John Paul Newman (Ed.). (2013) The First World War and Veterans' Internationalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,

Edited Journal Issue

Year Publication
2024 Orel Bielenson; John Paul Newman (2024) Suicide, War, and Peace in East-Central Europe, 1918-1968. [Edited Journal Issue]
2023 Lucija Balikić; John Paul Newman; Vojtěch Pojar (2023) The Sokol Movement between State and Society in Interwar East-Central Europe. [Edited Journal Issue]
2021 John Paul Newman; Lili Zach (2021) 1918 and the Old-New Europe. [Edited Journal Issue]
2019 John Paul Newman (2019) Cultures of Victory and Victorious Societies in the Twentieth Century. [Edited Journal Issue]
2010 Julia Eichenberg; John Paul Newman (2010) Aftershocks: Paramilitary Violence after World War One. [Edited Journal Issue] [Link]

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2024 John Paul Newman (2024) 'Suicide and the Hermeneutics of Political and National Community in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic'. Slavic Review, 82 (3). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.280
2024 John Paul Newman, Orel Beilinson (2024) 'Through a Glass Darkly: Introduction to Research Cluster'. Slavic Review, 82 (3). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.284
2023 Newman, J.P. (2023) 'Paradoxes of the Czechoslovak Sokol Association in the Interwar Period'. East Central Europe, 50 . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Balikic, L.; Newman, J.P.; Pojar, V. (2023) 'Introduction: The Sokol Movement between State and Society in Interwar East Central and Southeastern Europe'. East Central Europe, 50 . [Link] [DOI]
2021 John Paul Newman, Lili Zach (2021) 'Introduction: 1918 and the Ambiguities of the Old-New Europe'. Nationalities Papers, 49 (4). [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Adam Luptak, John Paul Newman (2020) 'Victory, Defeat, Gender, and Disability: Blind War Veterans in Czechoslovakia'. Journal of Social History, 53 (3). [Full-Text]
2019 John Paul Newman (2019) 'Loyalty for Loyalty: Volunteer Veterans and Entangled Cultures of Victory in Interwar Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia'. Journal of Contemporary History, 54 (3). [Full-Text]
2019 John Paul Newman (2019) '• ‘The Burden of Triumph: Introduction to Special Edition on Cultures of Victory and Victorious Societies in Twentieth Century Europe'. Journal of Contemporary History, 54 (3). [Full-Text]
2018 Newman, JP; Scheer, T (2018) 'The Ban Jelacic Trust for Disabled Soldiers and Their Families: Habsburg Dynastic Loyalty beyond National Boundaries, 1849-51'. Austrian History Yearbook, 49 :152-165. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Newman, JP (2017) 'War Veterans, Fascism, and Para-Fascist Departures in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918-1941'. Fascism, 6 :42-74. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Dr John Paul Newman (2015) 'Habsburg and Serbian Military Institutional Legacies in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia'. First World War Studies, 5 .
2014 Dr John Paul Newman (2014) 'Croats and Croatia in the Wake of the World War'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 24 . [Full-Text]
2011 John Paul Newman (2011) 'Through Snow and Red Fog: South Slav Soldiers in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond'. Irish Slavonic Studies, . [Full-Text]
2011 Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'War in the Balkans 1914-1918'. War in History, 18 . [Full-Text]
2011 Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'Serbian Integral Nationalism and Mass Violence in the Balkans 1903-1945'. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 124 . [Full-Text]
2010 Newman, Dr John Paul (2010) 'Introduction: Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War'. Contemporary European History, 19 . [Full-Text]
2010 Newman, Dr John Paul (2010) 'Post-Imperial and Post-War Violence in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes 1917-1923'. Contemporary European History, 19 . [Full-Text]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2022 John Paul Newman (2022) 'Veterans and Political Culture' In: Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. Amsterdam : Elsevier.
2021 Balázs Apor, John Paul Newman (2021) 'Introduction' In: Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe. Purdue : Purdue University Press.
2019 John Paul Newman (2019) ''A Croat Iliad? Miroslav Krleža and the Refractions of Victory and Defeat in Central Europe'' In: A World at War, 1911-1949. Leiden : Brill.
2018 Newman J. (2018) 'Shades of empire: Austro-Hungarian officers, Frankists, and the afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918-1929' In: Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918.
2018 John Paul Newman (2018) 'The Hollow Crown: Civil-Military Relations in Serbia 1903-1914' In: The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914. Rochester : University of Rochester Press.
2018 John Paul Newman (2018) 'Alloying Dissent with Patriotism: Dragiša Vasić in Yugoslav Siberia' In: Inside World War One? The First World War and its Witnesses. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
2017 John Paul Newman (2017) 'Revolution and Counter Revolution in Europe, 1917-1923' In: The Cambridge History of Communism, Volume One: World Revolution and Socialism in One Country. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2016 Dr John Paul Newman (2016) 'Silent Liquidation? Croat Veterans and the Margins of War Memory in Interwar Yugoslavia' In: Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Great War in East-Central EUrope (ed.s John Paul Newman, Mark Cornwall). New York : Berghahn.
2015 Dr John Paul Newman (2015) 'Serbia' In: The Wars Before the War 1912-1914 (William Mulligan et al, ed.). : Cambridge University Press.
2014 Newman, Dr John Paul (2014) 'Times of Death: The First World War and Serbia's Twentieth Century' In: Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe 1918, 1945, 1989. : Ashgate.
2014 Dr John Paul Newman (2014) 'War Refusal in the Croatian Countryside' In: Dans la Guerre 1914-1918: Accepter, Endurer, Refuser (Nicolas Beaupré, Heather Jones and Anne Rasmussen, eds.). : Les Belles Lettres.
2013 Newman, Dr John Paul (2013) 'Allied Yugoslavia: Serbian Great War Veterans and their Internationalist Ties' In: John Paul Newman, Julia Eichenberg(Eds.). The First World War and Veterans' Internationalism. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
2012 Newman, Dr John Paul (2012) 'The Origins, Attributes, and Legacies of Paramilitary Violence in the Balkans' In: Robert Gerwarth, John Horne(Eds.). War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
2011 Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'Les heritages de la Première Guerre mondiale en Croatie' In: François Bouloc, Rémy Cazals, André Loez(Eds.). Identités Troublées 1914-1918: Les appartenances sociales et nationales à l’épreuve de la guerre.
2011 Newman, Dr John Paul (2011) 'Forging a United Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: The Legacy of the First World War and the ‘Invalid Question' In: Dejan Djokić , James Ker-Lindsay(Eds.). New Perspectives on Yugoslavia: Key Issues and Controversies. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]

Encyclopedia Entry

Year Publication
2016 John Paul Newman (2016) The Black Hand. 1914-1918 Online: [Encyclopedia Entry] [Link]
2014 Newman, Dr John Paul (2014) Nationalism (Pre-war). [Encyclopedia Entry]
2012 Newman, Dr John Paul (2012) Civilian and Military Power in South East Europe. [Encyclopedia Entry]

Book Review

Year Publication
2020 Newman, JP (2020) Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order. CHICAGO: [Book Review]
2020 Newman, JP (2020) Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation. CHICAGO: [Book Review]
2018 Newman, JP (2018) The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13. NEW YORK: [Book Review] [DOI]
2018 Newman, JP (2018) The Politics of Self-Determination: Remaking Territories and National Identities in Europe, 1917-1923. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI]
2018 Newman, JP (2018) Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914-1918. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI]
2018 Newman, JP (2018) A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars: From Versailles to Hitler's Invasion. LONDON: [Book Review] [DOI]
2017 Newman, JP (2017) Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War One. CAMBRIDGE: [Book Review] [DOI]
2017 Newman, JP (2017) Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI]
2016 Newman, JP (2016) Making Yugoslavs: Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia. LONDON: [Book Review] [DOI]
2016 Newman, JP; Foster, S; Weaver, EB (2016) Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I. ABINGDON: [Book Review] [DOI]
2016 John Paul Newman (2016) Simon Hall '1956: The Year in Revolt'. [Book Review] [Link]
2014 Dr John Paul Newman (2014) Josip Glaurdic, 'The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia'. [Book Review]
2016 John Paul Newman (2016) 'Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War One' (Book Forum). Journal of Genocide Research, 18/4: [Book Review]
2013 Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Geoffrey Swain, 'Tito: A Biography'. [Book Review] [Full-Text]
2015 Newman, JP (2015) The Sandzak: A History. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI]
2014 Newman, JP (2014) The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. OXFORD: [Book Review] [DOI]
2013 Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Mark Biondich 'The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence since 1878’. [Book Review]
2013 Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Dejan Djokić 'Pašić and Trumbić: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes’. [Book Review]
2013 Dr John Paul Newman (2013) Jonathan Gumz,‘The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia’. [Book Review]
2011 Dr John Paul Newman (2011) Robert Pyrah, Marius Turda (eds.) ‘Re-contextualizaing East Central European History: Nation, Culture, and Minority Groups’. [Book Review]
2010 Dr John Paul Newman (2010) • Maria Bucur, ‘Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania’. [Book Review]
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Professional Associations

Description Function From / To
Who Cares in Europe? COST Action member -
Irish Association of Russian, Central, and East European Studies President -
American Association of Slavic and East European Studies member -
Royal Historical Academy Fellow -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/01/2008 Best Doctoral Student Paper in the Balkans/Ottoman Section
01/05/2019 Maynooth University Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy Early Career Research Achievement Award Maynooth University

Employment

Employer Position From / To
University College Dublin European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow 30/09/2010 - 30/09/2011

Languages

Language Reading Writing Speaking
Bulgarian Functional Functional Functional
German Functional Functional Functional
Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian Fluent Fluent Fluent
Slovene Functional Basic Basic
Slovak Basic Basic Basic
Macedonian Basic Basic Basic
Czech Fluent Fluent Fluent

Current Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
ADRIENN SZTANA-KOVACS RESEARCH PH.D. (10)
MS E.C. TAYLOR RESEARCH PH.D. (10)
SANDOR MAGYAROSI RESEARCH PH.D. (10)
SVEN MILEKIC RESEARCH PH.D. (10)
EAMONN ROBERT MILLIKEN RESEARCH PH.D. (10)

Recent Students

Graduation date Name Degree
2023 Keith Harrington PhD
2021 Stevan Bozanich PhD
2017 Anthony Farrell PhD

External Collaborators

Name Role Country
Social Welfare in the European Borderlands Research Associate