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About
the European Heritage Library
The European Heritage Library
was founded as an academic organization with the interest
of analyzing and interpreting the heritage and historical
memory that the many diverse European cultural identities
have experienced throughout their long histories. It is our
interest to offer stimulating educational articles, videos,
detailed maps, photo galleries, and essays regarding all aspects
of European history, politics, historical memory, and cultural
experiences from a diverse variety of ethnic and national
perspectives. Our content and information places special attention
on the social aspirations of European and immigrant minority
ethnic identities struggling for political franchise in modern
Europe, such as the Gypsy (Roma) communities, the Basques
and Galicians of Spain, Muslim immigrant groups, and other
regional identities.
The
EHL Staff/Editors
Note: new staff members are hired based upon commitment
and contribution level. We currently deal with outside
contributors and academic consultants and add staff members
only as needed for website administration and organisation.
1) James Mayfield
(Chairman)
Position/Title: Chairman, Owner, Chief Editor
Email Address: ehl.chairman@yahoo.com
Nationality: 
(USA)
Profession: Historian, Director of the Institute
for Research of Expelled Germans
Academic Credentials: Cum Laude BA in European History
and Minour in Germanic Studies (language and history) - both
from California State University, Long Beach; Masters Summa
Cum Laude in History - California State University, Fullerton;
Ph.D. Doctorate Fellow, Stanford University.
Academic Emphasis: Islamic & European history,
ancient Germanic culture, native & immigrant minority
groups in Europe
Languages Spoken: Fluent English & German; good
Dutch and Afrikaans; moderate Czech and Slovak
Nations Experienced: USA, Canada,
Mexico, Puerto Rico, most of Carribean, Jamaica, England,
Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Denmark,
Italy, San Marino, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro
(border only), Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Portugal,
Spain (Galicia, Catalonia, Andalusia, Castile), France, Morocco,
Gibraltar, Belgium (Flanders), Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Hungary, Egypt, Israel, Cyprus
Outside Publications:
1) "The vanquished Volga German
community." Delivered at the "Forgotten Genocide"
conference at the College of Meramec in St. Louis, Missouri.
Filmed for DVD and TV, 2010.
2) "Changing and constructed frameworks
of ethnoracial identity under Italian Fascism." Published
and presented at Spiru Haret University in Bucharest, Romania,
2011.
3) Scholarly consultant for source accuracy
and back-cover reviewer for Reale, Luigi. Mussolini's
Concentration Camps for Civilians, 2011. Portland, OR:
Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.
4) Published Masters Thesis, "Imagining
Revolutionary World Orders: Understanding Post-colonial State
Formation as Projects for Alternative Modernities." CSU
Fullerton, 2011.
5) Special contributor to a doctoral thesis
on Albanian socialist history at Stradclythe University in
Glasgow, Scotland.
6) Translation work on a 17th-century document
submitted by a French prisoner to the Dutch Estates General
requesting asylum for refusal to convert to Catholicism. Translated
from Dutch to English for Dr. Lougee of Stanford University,
2011.
7) My photography and research on the sociopolitical
situation of the Roma (Gypsies) in Bulgaria, Romania, and
Hungary were used and broadcast by the United Nations television
department, TV Section, in 2011.
8) "Commemoration and Restitution for
Expelled Germans Obfuscated by Economic Pragmatism, Distorted
Historical Memory, and Ethnic Revisionism " delivered
at the International Network of Genocide Scholars' conference,
"Genocide: Knowing the Past, Safeguarding the Future,"
San Francisco State University, June-July 2012.
9) My work on the expulsion of Germans from
East-Central Europe is being translated into Spanish in a
joint publication with Ernesto Weigandt and recirculated in
Panama, Argentina, and Brazil.
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