Elizabeth Vlossak

Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of History at Brock University (St. Catharines, Canada). She holds degrees from Mount Allison University (B.A.), Oxford University (M.St.), and Cambridge University (Ph.D.).

• Specializes in 20th-century European history
• Teaches courses on Weimar/Nazi Germany, nationalism, and gender in modern European history
• Active in heritage studies, participating in sessions like War as Transnational Heritage and Borders of Heritage at ACHS 2016

Her research focuses on:

• Gender and nationalism in European contexts
• Cultural history of both World Wars
• Politics of memory and commemoration

Key publications examine regional memory challenges in France (Oradour/Struthof), Nazi forced conscription in Alsace-Moselle, and postwar reconstruction dynamics. Currently working on her second book, Hitler's Unwilling Soldiers, which analyzes the reintegration of non-German Wehrmacht veterans post-WWII.