Alexander Maxwell completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught at the University of Wales, Swansea, and the University of Nevada, Reno. He is associate professor of history at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of Choosing Slovakia, Patriots Against Fashion, and Everyday Nationalism in Hungary. He has guest edited themed issues of Nationalities Papers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, German Studies Review, the New Zealand Slavonic Journal, and the Journal of Nationalism, Memory, and Language Politics.