Scott Moore

Biography

Dr. Moore has a Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research explores the complexity of Central European identity and the way state institutions helped to craft an individual’s sense of self. It also examines the broader intersection of historical memory, folklore, and identity. He teaches a range of courses about 19th- and 20th-century Europe as well as courses about the connection between history and folklore.

Research Interests

• Nationalism and identity in Central Europe
• Historical memory and commemoration
• Folklore and contemporary legend

Teaching Interests

• Modern European History
• Central European History
• Folklore and contemporary legend

Publications

Books:

The Witch of Pungo:  Grace Sherwood in Virginia History and Legend (Charlottesville: 

University of Virginia Press, 2024).

Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (West LaFayette,

IN: Purdue University Press, 2020).

Articles:

“Ordeal by Touch:  Family, Social Order, and Superstition in Colonial Virginia’s Eastern  

Shore,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Jun. 2025), 91-121.  

“Modern, Constitutional and Multinational:  Images of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austrian  

Schools, 1867-1914,” in Modernizing Europe’s Imperial Monarchies: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Heidi Hein-Kircher and Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh, Palgrave MacMillian, 2025, 303-323.  

“Vaterland, Heimat, and the Family of Nations:  Education and Identity Formation in Late- 

Habsburg Austria,” Nationalities Papers (Jan. 2025), 1-20. 

“The Momo Challenge and the Intersection of Contemporary Legend and Moral

Panic,” Contemporary Legend series 4, vol. 1 (Jan. 2023), 1-34.  Excerpted in Monsters:  A Bedford Spotlight Reader, 3^rd ed., edited by Andrew J. Hoffman, Bedford/St. Martin’s   Macmillian Learning, 2025, 54-59. 

“The Professionalisation of Teaching: Teacher Training and Education Reform in

Austria,1867-1914,” History of Education 48, no. 3 (May 2019), 336-355.

“An Emperor by a Different Name: Patriotic Celebrations in Imperial and Republican

Austria,” Contributions to Contemporary History 57, no. 3 (December 2017), 66-78.

Awards

Board of Regents Faculty Research Award for Eastern Connecticut State University, 2025.

Board of Regents Faculty Teaching Award for Eastern Connecticut State University, 2023.

Menor Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, 2019.