Professor of History

Year Joined RCNJ: 2001

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7410
• Email: smustafa@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-210
• Office Hours: MR 9:00-10:30 am; W By Appt.

Education:

• B.S., Virginia Commonwealth University
• M.A., The University of Richmond
• Ph.D., The University of Tennessee

Courses Offered:

• History Matters
• History and Game Design
• Politics of Europe
• World War Two
• Age of Napoleon
• German History
• The Nazis
• Military History
• History of Socialism & Communism
• War & Peacemaking

Teaching Interests:

• Modern Europe
• Politics and Revolution
• German History
• Military History

Research Interests:

• Modern Europe
• Politics and Revolution
• German History
• Military History

Scholarly Activity:

Books

• Napoleon’s Paper Kingdom: The Life and Death of Westphalia 1807-1813. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
• Germany in the Modern World: A New History. Second Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
• The Long Ride of Major von Schill: A Journey Through German History and Memory. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
• Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection 1776-1835. Ashgate, 2001.

Articles

• “Prussian Foreign Policy and War Aims, 1790-1815.” In: Michael Broers and Philip Dwyer, eds., The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• “The Plunder State: French Confiscations in Germany, 1807-1813.” Journal of the International Napoleonic Society 1, no. 7 (December 2016).
• “Loyal Rebels and Unruly Prussians: Two Centuries of the Napoleonic Wars in German School History Texts.” Internationale Schulbuchforschung 30 (Spring 2008).
• “The Politics of Memory: Rededicating Two Historical Monuments in Postwar Germany.” Central European History 41, no. 2 (June 2008).

Papers

• “Royal Republicans in the Service of an Emperor: the Legislature of the Kingdom of Westphalia.” Winning the Peace / Managing the Empire. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, 22-23 June, 2023. (Presenter.)
• “Good Intentions vs. Bad Conditions: Rethinking Higher Education in a Napoleonic Satellite State.” Annual Conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Fort Worth, TX, 5 February, 2023. (Presenter.)
• “War Pays for War: Napoleon’s Practice of Plunder and Extraction: the Case of Westphalia, 1807-1813.” Quarterly Meeting of the Economic History Seminar, Columbia University, 5 October, 2017. (Presenter.)
• “Kassel has Fallen: The Disintegration of the Westphalian State and Army.” Annual Conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, University of Charleston, 21 February, 2017. (Presenter.)
• “The Plunder State: French Confiscations in Germany, 1807-1813” Annual Conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, High Point University, 21 February, 2015. (Presenter.)
• “The Cost of Modernity in the Kingdom of Westphalia, 1807-1813.” Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, September, 2014. (Presenter.)
• “Liberating Leviathan: Rethinking the Role of the State in a Napoleonic Satellite Kingdom.” Annual Conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Baton Rouge, LA, 24 February, 2012. (Panel Organizer and Presenter.)
• “’Nothing More than Poetry?’ The Prussians Plot their Resurgence in 1809.” Annual Conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Savannah, GA, 19 February, 2009. (Presenter.)