David Blackbourn

David Gordon Blackbourn (born 1949)^[1] is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and director of the university's Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies. Blackbourn teaches and researches primarily in the fields of German and modern European history. He is on the editorial board of the journal Past & Present; the academic advisory board of the Institute for European History, Mainz; and the advisory board of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington. He was chair of the Harvard History Department in 1998–1999 and 2000–2002, and was president of the Conference Group on Central European History of the American Historical Association in 2003–2004.

After completing his dissertation at Jesus College, Cambridge, Blackbourn became a lecturer at Queen Mary College in 1976 before joining the faculty of Birkbeck College in 1979.^[2] In 1992 he moved to the U.S. becoming a professor at Harvard. He was award a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. ^[3] In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1]

Works

• Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980)
• The Peculiarities of German History (with G. Eley, 1984)
• Populists and Patricians (1987)
• The German Bourgeoisie (co-edited with R. Evans, 1991)
• Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1994)
• The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780–1918 (1997)
• The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (2006).

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf. Retrieved July 26, 2011. 
2. ^ "David Blackbourn CV". Harvard University History Department. http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/documents/blackbourn-cv.pdf. Retrieved July 26, 2011. 
3. ^ "David Balckbourn". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Blackbourn&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2011&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=0&y=0. Retrieved July 26, 2011. 

External links

• Faculty page at the Harvard History Department
• Faculty page at the Center for European Studies
• "History of the Historian": Profile of Blackbourn in Harvard Magazine

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