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.
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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. |
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Education Ph.D. Stanford University, l968 M.A.
Stanford University, 1965 B.A. Cornell University, 1964 |
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Professional Experience
Professor of
Research Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-2009
Research Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
Research
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Professor
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Visiting
Member,
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Associate
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Assistant
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Instructor of History, Stanford University, 1967-68
Honors and Fellowships
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-2009
National Endowment for the
Georgetown
University
Woodrow Wilson International
Jacques Barzun Prize in
Gerda Henkel
Foundation,
Alexander-von-Humboldt
John Simon Guggenheim
Fulbright Commission,
North Atlantic Treaty
National Endowment for the
Phi Beta Kappa
Recent Books
Endangered Cities: Military Power and Urban Societies in the Era of the World Wars, with
Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. 2d ed. Cambridge UP
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.
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
"Nachklänge: Der Ort der
"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.
Undergraduate Courses
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German History
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European International Relations, 1789-1991
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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:
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Issues and Literature in Modern European History:
New Approaches to Society and Culture -
Europe in the “Golden Age,” 1871-1914
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Introduction to German and European History (CGES)
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Graduate Field Seminar and Colloquium in Modern
European History
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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