holmes - BYU History Department

BLAIR R. HOLMES
Associate Professor of History
Brigham Young University
HIGHER EDUCATION
B.A. 1966 Brigham Young University
M.A. 1968 University of Colorado
Ph.D. 1972 University of Colorado
Certificate of Completion. Newberry Institute of Quantitative History, 1977.
Certificate of Completion. German Script Seminar. Moravian Archives, 1991.
AWARDS
National Defense Education Act Fellowship
University of Colorado, 1966-69
Fulbright Fellowship to Austria, 1970. (The Austrian government declined to pay its half of
the award made by the American committee.)
Who’s Whom Among America’s Teachers, 2002.
SERVICE
University
Pre-Med Committee, 1974-77.
College
Promotion Committee, 1973, 1975-77.
Valedictory Committee, 1983.
Department
Search Committee
-Medieval History, 1973.
-Family History, 1975-76.
-Russian History, 1984.
-Early Modern and Modern Europe, 1994 (Chair), 1995
Student-Faculty Relations, 1971-72.
History Week-Committee, 1972, 1978.
-Chairman, 1978.
Promotion & Tenure Committee, 1975-77, 1984.
Social Committee, 1974-75.
Graduate Committee, 1979-81, 83-84, 86-88.
Director, Annual Family History & Genealogy Conference,
1984, 1986.
Associate Director, Center for Family & Community History,
1983-84, 86-87. Director, 1985.
Valedictory Committe, 1976.
Curriculum Committee, 1982-84, 86.
Co-ordination Committee, 1982-84.
Student Awards Committee, 1989-90, 2000
Promotion & Tenure Revision Committee, 1986.
Policy Advisory Committee, 1987-89, 98-99
Executive Committee, Center for Family & Community History, 1986-87.
Graduate Co-ordinator, 1991-93.
History 485 Revision Committee, 1995.
Library Representative, 2001-Present
Other
Awards Committee, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 1978-82; Chairman, 198082.
Chairman, Quantitative Mormon History, Mormon History Assoc.
Annual Meeting, Utah State University, 1978.
Committee Member, National Genealogical Society Conference, 1985.
Field Reviewer, U.S. Dept. of Education, Jacob K. Javits Fellowships, 1991-95, 97, 2001-3
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Holmes, Blair R. and Alan F. Keele, eds. JUGENDLICHE GEGEN HITLER. Die Helmuth
Huebener Gruppe in Hamburg, 1941-1942. Berg: Verlagsgemeinschaft Berg, 1991.
Holmes, Blair R. and Alan F. Keele, eds. WHEN TRUTH WAS TREASON. German Youth against
Hitler. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
ARTICLES
"Europe and the Habsburg Restoration in Austria, 1930-1938," East European Quarterly, IX
(Summer 1975), pp. 173-184.
"Hazassagkotes es Vandorlas Nyguat-Magyarorszagon: Féltorony, 1828-1895," Demografia
(Budapest), XXI, Nos. 2-3 (1978), pp. 347-362.
"The Habsburg Empire and Historical Sources in the Genealogical Library of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints," Austrian History Yearbook, XV-XVI (1979-80), pp. 169-180.
"Marriage and Internal Migration in Moson County. Féltorony as a Case Study, 1827-1920,"
Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies, VII, No. 2 (Fall 1980), pp. 101-134.
Holmes, Blair R. and Margie G. Holmes. "Wealth and Marital Mobility in Western Hungary:
Féltorony, 1827-1920." Hungarian Studies, IV, No. 1 (1988), pp. 103-12.
"Legitimism and National Socialism in Austria: Monarchists vs. Nazis, 1918-1938," in Conquering
the Past: Austrian Nazism Yesterday and Today, ed. F. Parkinson (Detroit: Wayne
State University, 1989), pp. 91-109.
Holmes, Blair R. and Margie G. Holmes. "Remarriage in Western Hungary: Féltorony, 1827-1920,"
East European Quarterly, XXIV, No. 3 (September 1990), pp. 281-305.
"Premarital Pregnancy in Western Hungary: Féltorony, 1827-1920." Hungarian Studies Review,
XVIII, No. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 29-42.
"The Lancut-Potocki Archive at Brigham Young University,"
Conference Proceedings... (accepted and forthcoming).
In Progress
"Illegitimacy in Western Hungary."
"Illness and Mortality in Western Hungary."
"Occupations and Occupational Mobility in Western Hungary."
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
"The Habsburg Restoration in Austria and the European Scene, 1930-1938," Pacific Northwest
Historical Conference, April 1974.
"Peasant Marriage and Mobility in Western Hungary, 1828-1895," Conference on the Peasantry of
Eastern Europe, University of Nebraska, November 1976.
"Marriage and Migration in Western Hungary: Féltorony, 1828-1895," Western Association for
German Studies Conference, Arizona State University, October 1977.
"Wealth and Marital Mobility in Western Hungary: Féltorony, 1827-1920," Hungarian Studies
Association of Canada, Winnepeg, Manitoba, May 1986.
"The Lancut-Potocki Archive at Brigham Young University," Conference on Historic Polish
Archives, Lancut, Poland, April 1995.
BOOK REVIEWS
Jelavich, Barbara. The Habsburg Empire in European Affairs, 1814-1918. Chicago: Rand-McNally,
1969, in East European Quarterly, III, No. 3 (September 1969), pp. 388-389.
Hoffman, George, ed. Eastern Europe. Essays in Geographical Problems. New York: Praeger, 1970,
in East European Quarterly, V, No. 4 (January 1972), pp. 569-571.
Johnston, William M. The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938, Berkeley:
University of California, 1972, in East European Quarterly, VIII, No. 3 (Fall 1974),
p. 382.
Kann, Robert. Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand Studien. Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, 1976,
in East European Quarterly, XII, No. 1 (Spring 1978), pp. 124-126.
Duczynaska, Ilona. Workers in Arms. The Austrian Schutzbund and the Civil War of 1934.
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978, in The American Historical Review,
LXXXIV, No. 2 (April 1979), pp. 491-492.
Stekl, Hannes. Österreichs Zucht- und Arbeitshäuser, 1671-1920: Institution
zwischen Fürsorge und
Strafvollzug. Sozial- und Wirtschafts-historischen
Studien, Nr. 12. München: R. Oldenburg Verlag, 1978, in The American Historical
Review, LXXXV, No. 3 (June 1980), p. 668.
West, Franz. Die Linke in Ständestaat. Österreichische Revolutionäre, Sozialisten und
Kommunisten, 1935-1938. Schriftenreihe der Ludwig Boltzmann Instituts fuer
Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, Bd. 8. Wien: Europaverlag, 1978, in German
Studies Review, IV, No. 2 (May 1981), p. 322.
Ernst, August. Geschichte des Burgenlandes. In Geschichten der oesterreichischen
Bundeslaender. Vienna: Verlag fuer Geschichte und Politik, 1987, in Austrian
History Yearbook, XXIII (1992), pp. 240-41.
Troch, Harald. Rebellensonntag. Der 1. Mai zwischen Politik, Arbeiterkultur und
Volksfest. Vienna: Europaverlag, 1991, in Austrian History Yearbook, XXIV (1993),
pp. 254-256.
Hämmerle, Christa, ed. Kindheit im Ersten Weltkrieg. In Damit es nicht verloren geht. Vol.
24.
Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1993, in Austrian History Yearbook, XXVI (1995), pp. 303-4.
Seger, Martin and Paul Beluszky, eds. Bruchlinie Eiserner Vorhang: Regionalentwicklung
im
österreicischen-ungarischen Grenzraum. In Studien zu Politik und Verwaltung. Vol.
42. Vienna: Böhlau, 1993, in Slavic Review, LIV, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 808-09.
NON-PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
The Journal of James Sherlock Cantwell. Provo, Utah: Cantwell Family Organization, 1973.
The Journal of James Cantwell, 1917-1922. Provo, Utah: Cantwell Family Organization, 1974.