Dr. Jordan Kuck
Associate Professor of History, Chair of Humanities Division, and Director of the Honors Program
About Dr. Jordan Kuck
Dr. Kuck teaches courses in modern European and world history. In particular, his courses focus on Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, as well as thematic offerings in world history.
Dr. Kuck’s research centers on interwar Latvia and the transnational fascist movement in Europe
that emerged between the world wars.
In his free time, Dr. Kuck enjoys exploring the North Carolina wilderness with his wife and two children.
You can read Dr. Kuck’s curriculum vitae here.
Education
Ph.D., University of Tennessee
M.A., University of Nebraska
B.A., University of Nebraska
Recent Publications
Books
The Dictator without a Uniform: Transnational Fascism, Agrarian Nationalism, and the Kārlis Ulmanis Regime (in progress)
Chapters in an Edited Volume
“The Contagion of Fascism: Transnational Fascism, Interwar Latvia, and Pathways of Transmission”, Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, 1918–2018 (forthcoming with Routledge)
“Transnational Totalitarianism and the Building of a New Public Consciousness in Kārlis Ulmanis’s Latvia” in Dictatorship and Daily Life in Twentieth-Century Europe (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022): 123-148
“Robežu saplūšana: demokrātija, vadonisms un Latvija starptautiskajā kontekstā” (“The Blurring of Lines: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Latvia in Transnational Context”) in Latvijas ārlietu simtgade: Pasaules doma un Latvija (Rīga: Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2019): 60-78
“‘Made in America’: Kārlis Ulmanis un proamerikānisma izveide Latvijā, 1918-1940” in Latvijas ārlietu simtgade: 1. sejums: idejas un personības (Rīga: Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2016): 86-101
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The War Thus Far: An Assessment of the Impact of the War in Ukraine on the Baltic States (forthcoming special issue of EuropeNow, Council for European Studies)
“How Putin’s War in Ukraine Melted the Frozen Conflicts in the Baltic States,” EuropeNow, Council for European Studies, June 27, 2023, https://www.europenowjournal.
