Nicholas Huzsvai

Hey guys, To keep things short, I was hoping people here have recommendations for grad programs (preferably in English or German-speaking countries) with a strong profile in modern European labor history, peasant studies or social history more generally. I completed my undergraduate studies this last spring, having written my senior thesis on the prominence of völkisch ideology in Gustav Landauer's thinking, and have been taking a gap year in order to work and save money before resuming my studies at the graduate level. In the interim I have been reading more in the fields of social and economic history and would like to branch out from intellectual history into these aforementioned areas. In particular, I want to reintegrate the lived experiences of agrarian workers, craftsmen, domestic servants and white-collar employees (that is, those who weren't consolidated into a solid Social-Democratic support base) into a a more comprehensive theory of labor against which I can test general concepts of class interests, along with adjacent notions of proletarianization, capital accumulation, and so forth. (If this still too vague, I can PM interested parties a copy of my Statement of Academic Purpose.) So far, the prospective faculty advisors I have researched somewhat approximate my own research interests, but in ver few cases do they closely align. Most of the proficient scholars in the varios related field (Gerhard A. Ritter, Klaus Tenfelde, Robert G. Moeller, Heinrich August Winkler, Jürgen Kocka, F. L. Carsten, Ulrich Linse, Charles Maier, Avner Offer, etc.) are either dead or at an advanced age anyways. If there is a next generation of labor and social historians, I am not sufficiently familiar with their work. Any suggestions or related advice on applications going forward would be greatly appreciated!