Roger Chickering
Professor of History
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      In 1993 I joined the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, where  I held a joint appointment in the Department of History and the BMW Center for German and European Studies.  My fields of specialization were modern German and European history.  My principal research interests have lain in the German Empire and, for the past several years, the First World War.  My interest in this topic 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 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 have now turned to the history of German agriculture in the modern era, in a project tentatively entitled "Food, War, and German History, 1762-1992."
 

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-nine 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..       I retired from Georgetown in May 2010. I now reside on the Oregon coast.
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