Elizabeth Vlossak
2021 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence
Faculty of Humanities

Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. Since coming to Brock in 2006, she has taught courses in 20th-century European and World History, Weimar and Nazi Germany, comparative urban history, and women’s and gender history. In 2019 she ran a historical gardening course with students who researched, planted and grew historical gardens at Brock.

Dr. Vlossak’s research interests include the cultural history of war, women’s and gender history, border studies, nations and nationalism, critical heritage studies, and the politics of memory. Her publications include Marianne or Germania? Nationalizing Women in Alsace 1870-1946 (Oxford University Press, 2010), and articles and book chapters on postwar reconstruction and commemoration, Nazi forced labour policies, and gender and nationalism.

Over the last few years Dr. Vlossak has become increasingly interested in local Niagara history, and working with the community on public history projects. She is a founding member and associate fellow of The History Lab, a scholarly community engagement partnership. She is also a co-director with Dr. Julie Stevens (Sport Management) of the Sport Oral History Archive (SOHA), a digital, interactive archive preserving local and national sporting legacies through the collection of oral history interviews and photographs.

Dr. Vlossak has also served the University in a variety of roles, including as a member of Senate (2011-2013), as Graduate Program Director for the Department of History (2015-2018), and as Interim Director of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (2018-2019).