Michael Carter-Sinclair

Subjects and Periods

My main focus is the history of antisemitism and extreme German nationalism in Vienna from the mid-nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.  However, I have an interest in these subjects across Western and Central Europe over the same period.  I have spoken on associated topics at several universities in the UK and on the continent.  I have taught at King’s on the Second World War and on wider European history from the 1790s onwards.  My significant book project on Vienna from 1850 to 1950 is now very close to fruition.  I speak German, French and Spanish and I have been learning Czech to broaden my research interests.  I have recently embarked on a project to examine German-Czech conflicts in this period- at least as far as they concern nationalists.  I am currently narrowing down the research field.

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Austrian Cultural Forum, London, September 2014: paper on the Catholic Church’s reactions to the end of war and the creation of the First Austrian Republic at the conference ‘World War I and Central and Eastern European History’.
• Modern German History Seminar (IHR, London), September 2012: paper ‘Scapegoats For Change:  The Radical Right in Vienna and the Construction of an 'Enemy Within' in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’.
• University of Graz, Austria, August 2018: speaker at book panel for the launch of Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918, (New York: Berghahn, 2018).

Book in Preparation

My book Vienna's 'Respectable' Antisemites: a Study of the Christian Social Movement, is currently undergoing the production process in readiness for publication by Manchester University Press in January 2021.