Harry Merritt
Post-Doctoral Fellow in History and Holocaust Studies
Wheeler House Room 210
133 S Prospect St
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
- Ph.D., Brown University, 2020
BIO
Harry Merritt received a Ph.D. in History from Brown University in 2020. Before coming to the University of Vermont, he has also taught at Brown University, Amherst College, Wesleyan University, and Boston University. His current research has focused on the social, cultural, and political impacts of World War II on Latvia. Harry’s teaching interests include modern Russian, German, and Eastern European history (including Eastern European Jewish history), along with the histories of nationalism, fascism, genocide, and interethnic/interreligious coexistence and violence in Eastern Europe.
Harry’s most recent publications are a 2024 article in the Journal of Modern European History and a chapter in Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics (Central European University Press, 2022). His book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service, is under contract with Oxford University Press; it considers the creation, wartime experience, and legacies of Latvian national military units that fought on opposite sides of World War II, in the Soviet Red Army and the German Waffen-SS. In 2023, Harry received an Emerging Scholars Grant from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies in support of his research.
Bio
Harry Merritt received a Ph.D. in History from Brown University in 2020. Before coming to the University of Vermont, he has also taught at Brown University, Amherst College, Wesleyan University, and Boston University. His current research has focused on the social, cultural, and political impacts of World War II on Latvia. Harry’s teaching interests include modern Russian, German, and Eastern European history (including Eastern European Jewish history), along with the histories of nationalism, fascism, genocide, and interethnic/interreligious coexistence and violence in Eastern Europe.
Harry’s most recent publications are a 2024 article in the Journal of Modern European History and a chapter in Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics (Central European University Press, 2022). His book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service, is under contract with Oxford University Press; it considers the creation, wartime experience, and legacies of Latvian national military units that fought on opposite sides of World War II, in the Soviet Red Army and the German Waffen-SS. In 2023, Harry received an Emerging Scholars Grant from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies in support of his research.