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Andreas Daum, Professor
office: 570 Park Hall
email: adaum@buffalo.edu
phone: (716) 645-8421

Since 2008, also Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, SUNY Buffalo

office: 547 Capen Hall

phone: (716) 645-6003

Education: BA, Cologne, 1985; MA, Munich, 1990; PhD, Munich, 1995.

Courses Regularly Taught:

UGC 112: World Civilization II

HIS 313: 20th Century Europe
HIS 315: German Culture and Society, 1789-1989
HIS 346: 19th Century Europe

HIS 423: Problems in Modern European History (Seminar for Undergraduate Students)

Fields: Modern Europe, North & South Atlantic

Hubs: Knowledge, Culture & Society, Politics, Transnational Developments

Research Interests: German, European, and Transatlantic History from the late 18th to the 21st century; History of Science and Knowledge; Cultural and Political History

Current Research: Transnational German history since the 19th century; Berlin and America; Alexander von Humboldt

Books:

Kennedy in Berlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Kennedy in Berlin: Politik, Kultur und Emotionen im Kalten Krieg. Paderborn, 2003. [Kennedy in Berlin: Politics, Culture, and Emotions in the Cold War] English translation in preparation with Cambridge University Press.

Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848-1914. 1st ed. 1998, 2nd enlarged paperback ed., Munich, 2002.
[Popularizing Science in the Nineteenth Century: Civil Culture, Scientific Education, and the Public Sphere in Germany, 1848-1914]

Edited Volumes:

Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities, co-edited with Christof Mauch, New York, Cambridge, 2005.

America, the Vietnam War and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives, co-edited with Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach. New York, Cambridge, 2003.

Recent Articles:

“A Divided Germany in a Bipolar World, 1961-1989,” in Oxford Handbook of Modern German History. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

“Geschichte des Wissenschaftsjournalismus,” in WissensWelten: Wissenschaftsjournalismus in Theorie und Praxis. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2008.

“Lernprozesse, Konkurrenz und Legitimationsdruck: Inszenierungen von Politik in Berlin, 1950-63,” in Vom Gegner lernen? Feindschaft und Verflechtung zwischen West und Ost. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, 2007.

“’Atlantic Partnership’ or Simply ‘A Mess’? Performative Politics and Social Communication in the Western Alliance During the Kennedy Presidency,” in John F. Kennedy and the ‘Thousand Days:’ New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007.

“Popularisierung von Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert,” in Öffentliche Wissenschaft: Neue Perspektiven der Vermittlung in der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung, edited by Peter Faulstich. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006.

“Wissenschaft and Knowledge,” in Germany 1800-1870, ed. by Jonathan Sperber. Oxford, 2004.

“Charisma und Vergemeinschaftung: Zur Westbindung der Deutschen im Kalten Krieg,” in Deutschland und die USA in der internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Manfred Berg and Philipp Gassert. Stuttgart, 2004.

“Science, Politics, and Religion: Humboldtian Thinking and the Transformations of Civil Society in Germany, 1830-1870,” in Science and Civil Society (Osiris, no. 17). Chicago, 2002.

Fellowships and Grants:

Andrew Mellon Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.

John F. Kennedy Fellowship, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Feodor Lynen Fellowship at Columbia University, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Thyssen Fellowship, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Publication Grant for Excellent Dissertation, Verwertungsgesellschaft V.G. Wort

Dissertation Fellowship and Travel Grants, Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Dissertation Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Last updated: Thursday, August 7, 2008