{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:25:59","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alice Freifeld<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-medium alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/Alice_Freifeld085__Custom_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/Alice_Freifeld085__Custom_-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Alice_Freifeld085__Custom_\" class=\"wp-image-186\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/Alice_Freifeld085__Custom_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/Alice_Freifeld085__Custom_-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/Alice_Freifeld085__Custom_.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Director \/ Associate Professor of History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Modern European History<\/li>\n<li>International Studies&#8211;Europe<\/li>\n<li>Central and Eastern European Studies<\/li>\n<li>European Jewry<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-medium alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/2lvjo85.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/2lvjo85-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"2lvjo85\" class=\"wp-image-161\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/2lvjo85-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/2lvjo85-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/2lvjo85-200x156.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/2lvjo85.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alice Freifeld received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. (1992) in History at the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the faculty of the History Department at the University of Florida in 1994. She has also taught at Berkeley, Transylvania University (Lexington, KY), University of Nebraska, University of Connecticut, University of New Hampshire, and Wheaton College (Massachusetts).<br>\nFreifeld published Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914 (2000), which was awarded the Barbara Jelavich book prize by the Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as well as the biennial Hungarian Studies book prize. Her research interests in nineteenth century nationalism, crowd politics and Hungarian history has been supported with fellowships by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, International research Exchanges Board (IREX), American Council of Learned Societies,\u00a0\u00a0 Social Science Research Foundation, and Carnegie Mellon.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/jewish.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-197\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-197 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/jewish-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"jewish\" width=\"388\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/jewish-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/jewish-200x136.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/files\/jewish.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a>Freifeld is currently working on Displaced Persons and the surviving Hungarian Jewry in immediate postwar Europe. For this research\u00a0 she was &#8220;LIfe Reborn&#8221; fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; an IREX senior fellow in Hungary, a senior fellow in East European at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and a short term fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.<br>\nFreifeld first studied in Hungary as an undergraduate for the Fall semester in 1972.\u00a0 She returned for dissertation research in 1979-80, and senior research in 1994-5. She also lived in East Berlin in what was then the German Democratic Republic in the summer of 1985; her additional travel in the region has included a CIBER tour of development and investment conditions in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: freifeld@ufl.edu<br>\nPhone: (352) 294-7148<br>\nOffice: 3324 TUR<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Office Hours<br>\nFreifeld is in the office M-Th, 10:30-5, unless called to other meetings, class, or talks. Drop in any time or call for an appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Office Mailing Address<br>\nPO Box117342<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611-7342<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/freifeld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}