Eric G.E. Zuelow (pronounced Zee-low) is Assistant Professor of European History at the University of New England. He is especially interested in the evolution of modern tourism and related cultural institutions. His current research explores the evolution of leisure travel in a context of growing transnational connections and globalization.
Eric is co-editor of Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (Routledge, 2007), editor of Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (Ashgate, 2011), and is author of Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse, 2009)—recipient of the 2009 James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Best Book in the Social Sciences and History from the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Among other projects, Zuelow is currently writing a history of global tourism entitled A History of Tourism in the Modern World (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan) and a monograph exploring the impact of Europeanization, globalization, and expanding world tourism on the story of the English public house since World War II. Zuelow is also co-editing (with Kevin J. James) a collection exploring the development of tourism in Ulster and Scotland. Eric serves as reviews editor for the Journal of Tourism History and is the creator of The Nationalism Project, a website devoted to the study of ethnicity and nationalism in global perspective.
Eric teaches a range of classes exploring everything from the origins of civilization to more specialized courses on topics in British, European, and world history. Upcoming courses include:
Fall 2012
• Human Traditions: Connections I
• Europe to 1500
• Historiography of Nineteenth Century Europe
Spring 2013
• Human Traditions: Connections II
• Europe from 1500
• Rise and Fall of the British Empire
