David Blackbourn

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David Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and director of the university's Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies. Blackbourn primarily teaches and researches 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 Cambridge, Blackbourn moved to London before heading to Harvard in 1992. He is the author of 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); and The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (2006).

[edit] 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