Matthew Kott

Forskningsområder / Field of research:

• Socio-political history of Latvia and the wider the Baltic Sea Region in the twentieth century;
• History of Nazi Germany and the USSR;
• The intellectual, social, and political roots of communist and fascist movements in the Baltic and the Nordic countries;
• Migrations and diasporas, particularly in northern Europe;
• The Roma and Traveller communities in northern Europe;
• Theories of civil society and totalitarianism

Publikasjoner

Utvalgte publikasjoner / Selected publications:
•'Antropologen Gaston Backman och den uppsaliensiska rasbiologins spridning i tid och rum', in: Helmut Müssener and Per Jegebäck (eds.), Rasen och vetenskapen, Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 51, UUHGS Publications 3 (Uppsala: Centrum för multietnisk forskning; Programmet för studier kring Förintelsen och folkmord, 2009), pp. 59-82.
•(with Bernt Rougthvedt) 'Kongsvinger: Politiutdannelse eller opplæring i folkemord?', Fortid 2009, no. 2, pp. 6-14. [Les artikkel]
•'What Does the Holocaust in the Baltic States Have to Do with the SS' Plans for Occupied Norway?', in: Dzintars Erglis (ed.), Holokausta petniecibas problemas Latvija / Problems of the Holocaust Research in Latvia, Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia vol. 23 (Riga: Latvijas vestures instituta apgads, 2008), pp. 139-161. [Les artikkel]
•'Soviet Genocide in Latvia: Stalin's Great Terror (1937-38) as Antecedent and Other Aspects of the Recent Historiography', Latvijas Okupacijas Muzeja Gadagramata / Yearbook of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 2007, pp. 42-54.
•(with Harald Runblom) 'Estnische und lettische Flüchtlinge in Schweden seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg', in: Klaus J. Bade et al. (eds.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa: Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Munich &c.: Ferdinand Schöningh; Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), pp. 553-5. An English-language edition is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
•'Towards an Uncivil Society: Reactions to Soviet and Nazi Occupation and the Demise of Civil Society in Riga, 1939-1949', D.Phil. thesis (University of Oxford, 2006).
•'The Portrayal of Soviet Atrocities in the Nazi-controlled Latvian-language Press and the First Wave of Antisemitic Violence in Riga, July-August 1941' in David Gaunt, Paul A. Levine, and Laura Palosuo (eds.), Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Bern &c.: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 127-60.
•(with Heinrihs Strods) 'The File on Operation Priboi: A Re-Assessment of the Mass Deportations of 1949', Journal of Baltic Studies 33, no. 1 (2002), pp. 1-36; no. 2 (2002), p. 241.

Debattartikler / Debate articles:
•'Har vi ingenting lärt oss?', SVT Debatt, 24 Feb. 2010 [Les artikkel]
•'Forskare måste tänka nytt kring romer', Tvärsnitt 4 (2009), pp. 20-21. [Les artikkel]
•(with Bernt Rougthvedt and Terje Emberland) 'Side om side med massemordere', Bergens Tidende, 12 May 2009.
•(with Odd-Bjørn Fure and Rolf Hobson) 'Hva skjedde med frontkjemperne i Øst?', Aftenposten (Oslo), 3 Sept. 2005. [Les artikkel]
•''Latviesu operacija': noziegums, bet vai genocids?' (The 'Latvian Operation': A crime, but was it genocide?), Diena (Riga), 8 Dec. 2004.
•'Pilsoniskas sabiedribas bojaeja Latvija' (The demise of civil society in Latvia), Diena (Riga), 20 Nov. 2004.

Bokanmeldelser / Book reviews:

Ausbeutung und Vernichtung, by Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 23, no. 2 (2009), pp. 308-11. [Les artikkel]
•The Vanished World of the Lithuanian Jews, ed. by Alvydas Nikzenaitis, Stefan Schreiner, and Darius Staliunas, in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 13, no. 2-3 (2007), pp. 185-8.
•Latvia in World War II by Valdis O. Lumans, in Journal of Baltic Studies 38, no. 3 (2007), pp. 377-9.
•Estonia 1940-1945: Reports of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 21, no. 3 (2007), pp. 321-3. [Les artikkel]
•Utopias of Nation: Local Mass Killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1941-42 by Tomislav Dulic, in Nordisk Østforum 2006, no. 1, pp. 82-5.