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William Whitham

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William Whitham (PhD, Princeton University, 2021) is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education and a faculty affiliate at UF's Center for European Studies. He was previously Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and an affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His research explores the intersection of political ideas, movements, and structures of governance in modern Europe and Russia/Eurasia within a global framework. He has particular expertise in histories of radicalism, political violence, and authoritarianism in modern Spain, Italy, and Russia. His current book project, Anarchy Is Order: The Politics of Subversion and the Making of Modern Europe, offers a new political and intellectual history of European anarchism between the 1870s and 1930s. It examines how anarchist militants, long seen as the critics and opponents of established regimes, were the subjects and agents of new forms of power. Whitham has published work in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Modern Intellectual History, and Utilitas. He welcomes inquiries from UF undergraduate and graduate students interested in the historical study of radical and extremist politics (left, right, and beyond left and right) and in any area of modern European and Russian/Eurasian history.