Margaret L. Anderson

Margaret Lavinia Anderson is a professor at University of California Berkeley and is teaching Europe since 1453; Central Europe from the late 18th century, especially modern Germany; World War I; Fascist Europe.^[1] She won a 2001 Berlin prize by the American Academy in Berlin, and was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.^[2] She was a fellow at Stanford Humanities Center.^[3]

Life

Her research is about political culture, including electoral politics, in Imperial Germany and in comparative European perspective; the intersection of religion and politics; religion and society–especially Catholicism in the 19th century. She is now working on the relations (on the level of governments as well as civil society) between Germany and the Ottoman Empire from the time of the massacres of the Armenians in 1894-1896 to c. 1933. She was on the Academic Advisory Council of the German Historical Institute.

She made her Ph.D. at Brown University and her B.A. at Swarthmore College.

She is married to James J. Sheehan, a historian at Stanford University.

Bibliography

• Windthorst: A Political Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0198225782
• Windthorst: Zentrumspolitiker und Gegenspieler Bismarcks. Droste, 1988, ISBN 978-3770007745
• Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. Princeton University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0691048543

References

1. ^ http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Anderson/
2. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/334-margaret-lavinia-anderson
3. ^ http://shc.stanford.edu/people/directory/margaret-lavinia-anderson

External links

• University of California Berkeley, Department of History
• History of Europe podcast

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