
James Mace Ward is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 2008 and has held term appointments there, as well as at DePauw University and Queen's University of Belfast. As a teacher, he specializes in modern Eastern Europe and the Second World War but enjoys teaching a wide variety of topics, especially modern European surveys. He is an avid traveler and lived abroad for over a decade in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Thailand.
Ward's research interests include religion, nationalism, mass violence, collaboration and resistance, and expropriation.