Britta I . McEwen, BA, PhD

Associate Professor

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Contact

College of Arts and Sciences
History
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 233

Britta I . McEwen, BA, PhD

Associate Professor

Research Focus

Gender and Sexuality
History of Emotions
Modern Austria

Department

History

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, City Hall and Sexual Hygiene in Red Vienna [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Introduction: Vienna as a Laboratory for Sexual Knowledge [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Bibliography [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Kinship, Community, and Self
    McEwen Britta, A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and Crisis [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Local Reform on an Interna tional Stage: The World League for Sexual Reform in Vienna [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Popular Sexual Knowledge for and about Women [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Clinic Culture [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Emotional Responses: Hugo Bettauer’s Vienna Weeklies [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Conclusion: Sexual Knowledge between Science and Soc ial Reform [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Sexual Education Debates in Late Imperial and Republican Vienna [Book Chapter] 2022
  • McEwen Britta, National Identity and Gender in Austria after 1945 2021
  • McEwen Britta, Austrian Studies Today 2017
  • Anderson Emily, McEwen Britta, Brady Jr. Thomas A, Marschke Benjamin, Matsuda Matt K, Polanichka Dana M, Poley Jared, Prasad Ritika, Ryan Daniel C, Sauter Michael J, Verhoeven Claudia, Woodson-Boulton Amy, Zwick Tamara, Goldberg Ann E, Goldberg Kevin D, Lindemann Mary, Luebke David M, Mansker Andrea, Coy Jason, Garbarini Alexandra, Kinship, community, and self 2015
  • McEwen Britta I., A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and Crisis [Book Chapter] 2015
  • McEwen Britta, Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire 2014
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Local Reform on an International Stage [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Front Matter [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Table of Contents [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Conclusion [Book Chapter] 2012
  • Sexual Knowledge
    McEwen Britta, Sexual Education Debates in Late Imperial [Book Chapter] 2012
  • McEwen Britta I., Sexual Knowledge: Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934 2012
  • McEwen Britta, Purity Redefined Catholic Attitudes Towards Children's Sex Education in Austria, 1920-36 [Book Chapter] 2009
  • Sharing Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe
    McEwen Britta I., Purity Redefined: Catholic Attitudes Towards Children's Sexual Education in Austria, 1920-1936 [Book Chapter] 2008

Publications

  • Central European history
    McEwen Britta, Paper Party: Propaganda Files from the Austrian Fatherland Front, p. 1 - 20 2025
  • Journal of Austrian studies
    McEwen Britta, Feeling(s) Caught Between the Austrian First Republic and Fascism
    56:4, p. 11 - 19 2023
  • Austrian history yearbook
    McEwen Britta, Outsider Bodies, Everyday Lives: Single Mothers and Their Children in Red Vienna – ERRATUM, p. 1 - 1 2023
  • Austrian history yearbook
    McEwen Britta, Outsider Bodies, Everyday Lives: Single Mothers and Their Children in Red Vienna
    54, p. - 2023
  • Journal of women's history
    McEwen Britta, Shame, Sympathy, and the Single Mother in Vienna, 1880–1930
    35:1, p. 100 - 120 2023
  • McEwen Britta, Norm and reform: Anatomical body images in Vienna around 1925 2023
  • McEwen Britta, Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945 2021
  • McEwen Britta, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-Speaking World, 1890s–1930s. By Katie Sutton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 362. Cloth $90.00. ISBN 978-0472131600 2020
  • Austrian history yearbook
    McEwen Britta, New Work on the Austrian First Republic
    51, p. 317 - 323 2020
  • McEwen Britta, The Counts Harrach and their World. 1884-1945 2020
  • McEwen Britta, A State dies: Austria 1934-38 2019
  • McEwen Britta, The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria 2019
  • McEwen Britta, The Failed Republic: Culture and Politics in Austria 1918-1938 2019
  • McEwen Britta, Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th-Century Hungary 2018
  • McEwen Britta, Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science 2018
  • Austrian History Yearbook
    McEwen Britta I., Pioneering History on Two Continents: An Autobiography
    48, p. 290 - 291 2017
  • Journal of Austrian studies
    McEwen Britta, Austrian Studies Today ed. by Günter Bischof and Ferdinand Karlhofer (review)
    50:3, p. 186 - 187 2017
  • Austrian History Yearbook
    McEwen Britta I., Die Wunden Des Staates: Kriegsopfer Und Sozialstaat in Österreich 1914–1938
    47, p. 243 - 244 2016
  • Austrian History Yearbook
    McEwen Britta I., The Wounds of the State: War Victims and the Welfare State in Austria during 1914-1938
    47, p. 243 - 244 2016
  • Journal of the History of Sexuality
    McEwan Britta, McEwen Britta I., Emotional Expression and the Construction of Heterosexuality: Hugo Bettauer's Viennese Advice Columns
    25:1, p. 114 - 136 2016
  • McEwen Britta, Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austrian and Habsburg Studies 14 2014
  • Austrian History Yearbook
    McEwan Britta, McEwen Britta I., Review of Johnson Julie M. The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900. Central European Studies. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2012.
    45, p. 257 - 258 2014
  • McEwen Britta, Clemens Ruthner and Raleigh Whitinger, eds., Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture 2013
  • Journal of Austrian studies
    McEwen Britta, Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture by Clemens Ruthner and Raleigh Whitinger (review)
    46:2, p. 157 - 159 2013
  • Austrian History Yearbook
    McEwen Britta I., Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria [REVIEW]
    43, p. 233 - 234 2012
  • Women and Language
    Ha Nina, McEwen Britta I., Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation [book review]
    34:1, p. 93 - 94 2011
  • Austrian History Yearbook
    McEwen Britta I., Welfare and Eugenics: Julius Tandler's Rassenhygienische Vision for Interwar Austria
    41, p. 170 - 190 2010
  • Journal of the History of Sexuality
    McEwen Britta I., Symptoms of modernity: Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century Vienna.
    15:1, p. 132 - 135 2006

Grants

  • Memory Interrupted: Para-fascism in Austria, 1933-1938/Sponsor: CURAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

  • Serving Memory: The Oral Histories of the Austrian Heritage Collection/Sponsor: Dr. George F. Haddix President's Faculty Research Grant

Awards

  • Professional Excellence in Tenure-Track Teching
    College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Office
  • Dietrich W. Botstiber Grant
    Botsiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
  • “Iggy” Award for Freshman mentoring
    Creighton University
  • Faculty Teaching Fellowship
    For Critical Issues in Human Inquiry
    Creighton University
  • “Iggy” Award for Freshman mentoring
    Creighton University