Dr. Erwin Fink
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2004
B.A., German Studies and History, University of British Columbia, 1993

Website: www.transmedia-translations.com

Select Translations:

Jane Penrose. Rom und seine Feinde. Kriege – Taktik – Waffen. Stuttgart: Theiss, 2007. [From English into German]

Peter Whitfield. Städte der Welt. In historischen Karten. Stuttgart: Theiss, 2006. [From English into German]

Europe Since 1914 - Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, 5 vols., ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter, Detroit: Thomson Gale Publishers, Inc., 2006. [Translated several entries from German into English]

Peter Spufford, Handel, Macht und Reichtum. Kaufleute im Mittelalter. Stuttgart, 2004. [From English into German]

William F. Pepper, Die Hinrichtung des Martin Luther King. Wie die amerikanische Staatsgewalt ihren Gegner zum Schweigen brachte. Munich, 2003. [From English into German]

James Retallack, ed., Saxony in Germany. Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933. Ann Arbor, MI, 2000. [Translated several essays from German into English]

Ulrich Herbert, ed., National Socialist Extermination Policies. New York and London, 1999. [Translated essays by Götz Aly and Thomas Sandkühler from German into English]

Paul G. Bahn, Gräber, Särge & Mumien. Spektakuläre Entdeckungen der Archäologie. Augsburg, 1997. [From English into German]

Publications:
"For Country, King, and Church: The Bavarian Patriots' Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German Unification." In John Breuilly and Ronald Speirs, eds. Germany's Two Unifications. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

"Symbolic Representations of the Nation: Baden, Bavaria, and Saxony, 1860-1880." In Laurence Cole, ed. Different Paths to the Nation: National Identity and State-Building in Germany, Italy, and the Habsburg Empire c. 1830-1870. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Primary Research Interests:
Regional and national political cultures in imperial Germany; popular allegiances and processes of nation-building in late nineteenth-century Europe.