John Deak is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His first book, Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War (Stanford University Press, 2015), was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Social Science History in 2018. His recent work on the First World War has been published in the Journal of Modern History and (with Jonathan Gumz) in the American Historical Review and Contemporary Austrian Studies. Broadly interested in European history since the Enlightenment, he teaches courses on German History, the First World War, Nazi Germany, and his specialty, the History of the Habsburg Empire. He currently lives on campus as faculty-in-residence with his wife and Sieglinde-the-mini-schnauzer in Dunne Hall, a men’s dorm. When not working in the archives of the former Habsburg Empire and researching his next book, you can find him drinking a double espresso in Café Prückel in Vienna or hiking the former battlefields of the First World War in Slovenia.