Roger Chickering

 

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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 research on this war 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 will be published in German by the Schöningh Verlag. I am now turning to the history of German agriculture in the modern era. To this end I am a fellow this year at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
 

    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 Leiden. To date, we have published forty-seven 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

Research Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-9

Visiting Scholar, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Summer Semester 2008

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

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

Research Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-9

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, 2008-9

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 (Paperback 2009).

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, forthcoming 2008.

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

 

 

Recent Articles and Chapters

"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, 2008. 196-218.

“The Spanish Civil War in an Era of Total War,” in Martin Baumeister and Stephanie Springorum, eds., “If You Tolerate This. . . “: The Spanish Civil War in an Era of Total War. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag, 2008, 28-43.

“Den kriegerischen Geist wecken und stählen—Der Kampf der vaterländischen Verbände gegen die ‘Irrlehren’ der Friedensbewegung vor 1914,” Gerhard Schneider, ed., Meine Quelle: Ein Lesebuch zur deutschen Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Schwaldbach/Ts: B-D Edition, 2008. 87-104

“Ein Krieg, der nicht vergehen will. Zur Frage des methodologischen Fortschritts in der Historiographie des Ersten Weltkrieges,“ in Cornelius Torp and Sven Oliver Müller, eds., Das Deutsche Kaiserreich in der Kontroverse. Eine Bilanz. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009.

“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

  • Producing Fascism in Italy

  • 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

  • Land and Power in Modern European History

  • France and Germany in the Twentieth Century (with Richard Kuisel)

  • Germany under the Bombs, 1940-45 (ith Peter Pfeiffer)

  • Introduction to German and European History (CGES)

  • Graduate Field Seminar and Colloquium in Modern
        European History 

Current Courses

   

On leave during academic year 2008-2009

 

 

 (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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