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Roger Chickering
Professor of History
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      I joined the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown in 1993.  I hold a joint appointment in the Department of History and the BMW Center for German and European Studies.  My fields of specialization are modern German and European history.  My principal research interests lie in the German Empire and, for the past several years, the First World War.  My most recent research grew out of work I that I did on the historian Karl Lamprecht, who aspired to write "total history," and collaborative work that I have undertaken with Stig Förster of the University of Berne on the history of "total war."  The effort to bring these two concepts together underlay the book that I have recently published on the First World War in the southwestern German city of Freiburg i. Br.  The book was published in English by the Cambridge University Press and in German by the Schöningh Verlag in 2009. I am now turning to the history of German agriculture in the modern era.
 

    With Thomas A. Brady, Jr., of the University of California at Berkeley, I have since 1990 co-edited the monograph series, "Studies in Central European Histories," which is published by Brill Academic Publishers in Boston. To date, we have published forty-eight volumes.  I was president of the Conference Group for Central European History in 2005. I am currently a member of the board of editors of the journal Central European History, as well as Executive Vice-Chairman of the Corporation of the Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington..

     Because I plan to retire in 2010, I am no longer accepting students for doctoral work.

 

 

 

Biography

 

Education

Ph.D. Stanford University, l968

M.A. Stanford University, 1965

B.A. Cornell University, 1964

     

Professional Experience

Professor of History, BMW Center for German and European Studies (Joint Appointment in the Department of History), Georgetown University, 1993-2010

Research Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-2009

Research Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1996-97

Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1981-94

Visiting Research Fellow, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Freiburg i. Br., 1991-92

Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, Spring Semester 1991

Visiting Research Fellow, Institut für neuere Geschichte, Ludwigs- Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1984-85  

Visiting Research Fellow, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, Free University of Berlin, 1976-77

Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1974-81

Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1968-74

Instructor of History, Stanford University, 1967-68

 

Honors and Fellowships

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-2009

National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, John Birkelund Senior Research Fellowship, 2004-2005

National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 2004-2005

Georgetown University Graduate School, Senior Faculty Fellowship, 2000

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Research Fellowship, 1996-97

Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society, 1994

Gerda Henkel Foundation, Research Fellowship, 1991-92, 2008-2009

Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship, 1984-85, 1987

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Research Fellowship, 1980-81

Fulbright Commission, Research Fellowship, 1976-77

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Research Fellowship, 1971, 1972

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Younger Humanists, 1970-71

Phi Beta Kappa

 

 

Publications


Recent Books

Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars, with Marcus Funck.  Brill Academic Publishers, 2004.

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. 2d ed. Cambridge UP, 2004

A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of  Destruction, 1939-1945, with Stig Förster and Bernd Greiner. Cambridge UP, 2005.

German History in Documents and Images.  Online documentation project of the German Historical Institute, Washington: http://www.ghi-dc.org/GHDI_prelimindex.html.  I am a member of the four-person board of general editors as well as the editor of the fifth volume on “Wilhelmian Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)."

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918.  Cambridge UP, 2007.

Krieg, Frieden und Geschichte: Gesammelte Aufsätze über Patriotischen Aktionismus, Geschichtskultur und Totalen Krieg. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007.

Freiburg im Ersten Weltkrieg: Totaler Krieg und städtischer Alltag 1914-1918. Schoeningh Verlag, 2009.

War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and the French Revolution, 1775-1815, with Stig Förster. Cambridge UP, 2010

Cambridge History of War, vol. 4, co-edited with Hans Showalter and Hans van de Ven, Cambridge UP, forthcoming.

Karl Lamprecht. Ein deutsches Professorenleben. Steiner Verlag, forthcoming.

 

 

 

 

Recent Articles and Chapters

"Death in Freiburg, 1914-1918," in Chickering and Funck, eds., Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of  the World Wars. Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. 127-43.

"Are We There Yet? World War II and the Theory of Total War" (with Stig Förster), in Chickering, et al,  eds., A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1939-1945. Cambridge UP, 2005.  1-16.

"Nachklänge: Der Ort der osteuropäischen Geschichte in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft um 1900," in Dittmar Dahlman, ed. 100 Jahre osteuropäische Geschichte in Deutschland. Steiner Verlag, 2005. 11-19.

"Die Universität im Ersten Weltkrieg," in Bernd Martin, ed., "Die Wahrheit wird Euch frei machen:" Historische Festschrift zur 550. Jahresfeier der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. II Teil. Freiburg: Karl Alber, 2007. 152-65.

"Ranke, Lamprecht, and Luther," in Christopher Ocker, et al, eds. Politics and Reformation: Histories and Reformations: Studies in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr. Leiden: Brill, 2007. 23-33.

“’War Enthusiasm’? Public Opinion and the Outbreak of War in 1914,” in Holger Afflerbach and David Stevenson, eds., An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914.  New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. 200-12.

“Militarism and Radical Nationalism,” in James Retallack, ed., Germany, 1871-1918 (Short Oxford History of Germany). Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008.

“The Spanish Civil War in an Era of Total War,” in Martin Baumeister and Stephanie Springorum, eds., The Spanish Civil War in an Era of Total War. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, forthcoming, 2008.

“A Tale of Two Tales: Grand Narratives of War in an Age of Revolution,” in Chickering and Förster eds., War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and the French Revolution, 1775-1815. Cambridge UP, forthcoming.

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Courses Taught at Georgetown

Undergraduate Courses

  • German History

  • European International Relations, 1789-1991

  • Europe in the Era of the Second World War

  • War and Society in Early Modern Europe

  • The First World War in Europe

  • National Socialism

  • The Holocaust and Its Representations

Graduate Courses:

  • Issues and Literature in Modern European History:
        New Approaches to Society and Culture

  • Europe in the “Golden Age,” 1871-1914

  • Introduction to German and European History (CGES)

  • Graduate Field Seminar and Colloquium in Modern
        European History 

Current Courses

   

History 247. European International Relations, 1914-1991

INAF 590. Master's Project Seminar (MAGES)  

 

 

 (Consult the Schedule of Classes to find current semester offerings and the Undergraduate Bulletin or Graduate School Catalog for course descriptions.)

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