Cynthia J. Paces Associate Professor Phone: (609) 771-2742 Email: paces@tcnj.edu Office: www.tcnj.edu/~paces

PhD, Columbia University, 1998

A specialist on modern Central Europe, Professor Paces teaches courses on modern European history.

Publications

• "The Battle for Prague's Old Town Square: Symbolic Space and the Birth of the Republic," in Blair Ruble and John Czaplicka, eds. Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. 165-191.
• "Gender and the Battle for Prague's Old Town Square" in Elena Gapova, editor, Gendernye istorii Vostochnoi Evropy , (Gendered (Hi)stories from Eastern Europe). Minsk, Belarus: European Humanities University, Press, 2002, pp. 124-131.
• "The Fall and Rise of Prague's Marian Column," Radical History Review 79 (Winter 2001), pp. 141-155.
• "Religious Heroes for a Secular State: Commemorating Jan Hus and Saint Wenceslas in 1920s Czechoslovakia," in Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur, eds., Staging the Past: Commemorations in the Habsburg Lands , Purdue Univ. Press (2001), pp. 199-225.
• "'The Czech Nation Must be Catholic!': An Alternative Version of Czech Nationalism During the First Republic," Nationalities Papers 27 (1999)
• "Unveiling the Past: Recent Literature on National Memory in the Czech Republic," Nationalities Papers 25 (1997)

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