Alexander Maxwell
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Alexander Maxwell teaches history at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he also directs the Antipodean East European Study Group. He studied physics and history for his Bachelor’s degree (University of California, Davis), completed MA degrees in History (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Nationalism Studies (Central European University, Budapest) before completing his Ph.D. in history (University of Wisconsin, Madison). He is the author of Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language, and Accidental Nationalism, has translated Jan Kollár’s Panslav tract Reciprocity Between the Tribes and Dialects of the Slavic Nation, and edited the volumes The East-West Discourse, Symbolic Geography and its Consequences and The Comparative Approach to National Movements: Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies. He is presently working on Patriots Against Fashion, a history of nationalism and clothing.