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Charles S. Maier: Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography Home Coordinates Charles S. Maier: Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography (February 2020) Home Coordinates: Office Coordinates: 60 Larchwood Drive Center for European Studies, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 868-2281 (617) 998-5404; Fax: (617) 495-8509. e-mail: [email protected] Mobile phone: 617-642-3652. Date/place of birth: February 23, 1939, in New York City. Education: Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Harvard College, 1956-60 (A.B. summa cum laude in history); St. Antony's College, Oxford University, 1960-61; Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1961-67 (Ph.D. in history, March 1967). Faculty Positions (in reverse order): Currently: Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Harvard University. (=Professor Emeritus) since June 2019. Previously: Visiting Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, October 2019. Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History (2002-2019) . Visiting Professor, LUISS University, Rome, October 2014. Directeur des Etudes Invité at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, spring 2007. Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University, 1991-2002). Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 1994-2001 (and fall term 2006). Acting Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, spring term 2001-2002, and Chair, 1993-1997. Professor of History, Harvard University, since 1981, including service as Head Tutor, 1982- 1984. Acting Chairman of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (fall semester 1993, 1987-88). Professor of History, Duke University, 1979-1981. Associate Professor of History, Duke University, 1976-79. Visiting Professor, Fakultät fur Geschichtswissenschaft, Universitat Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, spring semester 1976. Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University, 1974-75. Lecturer in History, Harvard University, 1973-74. Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University, 1969-73. Instructor in History, Harvard University, 1967-69. 2 Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House and Member of the Administrative Board of Harvard College, 1973-75 (administrative position held concurrently with the Lectureships listed ahove). Faculty Committee Memberships: Co-director with Professor Sven Beckert of theWeatherhead Initiative in Global History (WIGH), a multi-year post-doctoral program, also funding research fellowships, and organizing conferences under the auspices of the Weatherhead Center for International Affair. Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1989-2009); senior adviser until retirement, 2019; University Committee on International Programs and Sites (2006-2019); Committee on European Studies (1981-2019); Committee on Degrees in Social Studies (1981-2019); Committee on General Education (2004-06); Historical Studies Subcommittee of the Committee on the Core Curriculum (1993-2001). Other Affiliations, Memberships: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 1991. Council on Foreign Relations, since 1982. Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society. Member (1999-2003) and Chair (2000-2003) of the Selection Committee for the Berlin Prize Fellowships, American Academy in Berlin. Member of the Selection Committee for directors of the Max-Planck-Institute of History, Göttingen, Germany, 2002-2004. Forschungsbeirat (Research advisory board for faculty projects), Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna, 1998-2002. Conseil de la Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland, 1985-. German American Academic Council (DAAK/GAAC), 1998-2000. Chair of the U.S. Committee for the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies of the Social Science Research Council, 1992-1997. Member, Advisory Board of the Forschungsschwerpunkt Zeithistorische Studien (contemporary history research center), Potsdam -- one of seven originally East German humanities research institutes sponsored by the Max Planck Gesellschaft after unification -- 1992-95. Visiting scholar during April-May 1993. Member, Supervisory Board of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, 2007-2016. Board of Visitors to the Center for International Studies, Duke University, 1989-1991. Member Joint Committee on Western Europe of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies 1977-1985; Chairman, 1978-81. Associated Staff, the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1977-84. Steering Committee of the Council for European Studies (an inter-university group based at Columbia University), 1976-79; chairman of Research Planning Group Committee, 1977-78. Member of the American Historical Association, the Society for Italian Historical Studies, Conference Group on German Politics, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. 3 Editorial advisory board memberships: Central European History (1979-82); European History Review; French Historical Studies (1979-81); German Politics and Society; Geschichte und Gesellschaft (until; l999), History and Memory, International Organization (1988-1994); Journal of Contemporary History; Journal of Modern History (1984-87); Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Stato e Mercato. Fellowships (in reverse order): Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, March-June, 2018. Distinguished Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., January-June 2011. Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, 2002-03. Distinguished Senior Visitor to the American Academy in Berlin, March 1999. William Chandler Cabot Fellow of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1998-99 (one of four chosen in humanities and social sciences). Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., spring 1989. John and Catherine MacArthur Grant for Research in International Peace and Cooperation, 1988-89. (Caution: this is not the MacArthur “genius” award!) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1984-1985. German Marshall Fund Fellowship for research, 1980-81. National Endowment of the Humanities research fellowship, 1977-78. Fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 1977-78. Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, New York, N.Y., September 1975-February 1976. Honors: Laurea honoris causa in European Studies, Università degli Studi di Padova, January 26, 2018. Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1.Klasse (Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class) of the Republic of Austria, awarded March 2014 Commander’s Cross of the German Federal Republic (Grosse Bundesverdienstkreuz), awarded Jan. 1999. Prizes: 2018 American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. 2011 Helmut Schmidt prize in German-American economic history, awarded biannually by the Zeit/Bucerius Foundation, Germany. 4 1999 prize for the Outstanding Book in German Studies awarded by the German Studies Association and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and outstanding book of the year (1998) awarded by the the New England Historical Association, both for Dissolution. For Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Premio Storico Aqui (1981, for the Italian translation); Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association (awarded December 1977); George Louis Beer prize of the American Historical Association (awarded December 1976); finalist for a National Book Award in History and Biography, 1976. As a student: Bowdoin graduate prizes for essays in the social sciences area, Harvard University, 1962 and 1963; Foreign Area Fellowship (SSRC and Ford Foundation) for research in Western Europe, 1964-65 (renewal, 1965-66); Atherton Fellowship for graduate study from Harvard University; Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow; Charles and Julia Henry Fellowship for study in England. Phi Beta Kappa, 1959. Personal: Married to Marjorie Anne Sa’adah, Joel Parker Professor Emerita of politics at Dartmouth College (since 5 June 2017). Formerly married to Pauline Rubbelke Maier, Keenan Professor of History at MIT (17 June 1961 until her death, 12 August 2013). Children: Andrea (b. 2/11/65), Nicholas (b. 5/30/68), Jessica (b. 9/4/74). 5 Charles S. Maier: Publications, Selected Lectures and Projects I. Books: Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016) Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) Also included in A World Connecting 1870-1945. Emily Rosenberg, ed., being vol. 5 of A History of the World, Akira Iriye and Jürgen Osterhammel, general editors (Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2012)., A simultaneous German edition has been published by C. H. Beck Verlag,, Munich as, Leviathan 2.0: Die Erfindung moderner Staatlichkeit” in Geschichte der Welt, 1870-1945: Weltmärkte und Weltkriege. Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006). Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1997); translated as Das Verschwinden der DDR und Der Untergang des Kommunismus (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1999); Il Crollo. La crisi del comunismo e la fine della germania orientale (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1999). The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988; reissued with a new preface, 1997). Revised German edition: Die Gegenwart als Geschichte: Deutsche Identität vor und nach 1989 Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 1991).
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