Mikkel Dack

W. Mikkel Dack is a graduate student of History at the University of Waterloo. He recently returned to Canada after living abroad in Europe where he attended the Freie Universität Berlin. Mikkel’s research interests lie within the area of modern Europe with a specific focus on the cultural history of the Nazi Germany. He is currently writing his MA thesis on the 1936 Olympic Games, concentrating on the American and Canadian boycott movements and the resulting shift in the western perception of Germany. Mikkel’s further interests include the rise of popular anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the forced expulsion of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe following and Second World War, and Canadian foreign policy during the 1930s. Mikkel has presented his work at various conferences and has been published by the Canadian Battlefields Foundation. He intends to commence his doctoral work in the fall of 2009 and to pursue an academic career as a university professor.