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Philip Slaby
Chair, Assistant Professor of History
pslaby@guilford.edu
(336) 316-2471
Ph.D. 2005, Brandeis University
M.A. 1998, Brandeis University
B.A. 1992, Western Michigan University
Research Interests
- European Immigration
- Europe Between the World Wars
- Business and Labor History
- Modern French History
- Modern Polish History
Courses Taught
- Europe in Revolution, 1789-1914
- War and Peace: 20th Century Europe, 1914-Present
- Europe Since 1945
- French Revolution and Napoleon
- Europe Between the World Wars
- Immigration & a Multicultural Europe
- History Research Seminar
Campus and Community Involvement
- Advisor of Iota Beta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta
- The National History Honor Society
Notable Works
- Violating the ‘Rules of Hospitality’: The Protests of Jobless Immigrants in Depression-Era France,” essay within conference volume Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention (Oxford, 2011).
- “The Contradictions of Controlled Immigration: Mines, Foreign Labor, and the State in Interwar France,” Business and Economic History On-Line, vol. 8, 2010.
- Book Review: Matt Perry, The Experience of the Unemployed in France 1921-1945 (London: Ashgate, 2007) in Labor History, vol. 50 no. 2, 2009.
- Book Review: Mary Dewhurst Lewis, The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007) in Social History, vol. 33, no. 2, 2008, 222-223.
