Roger Chickering
I was a member of the School of Foreign Service and the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown from 1993 to 2010. I was Professor of History in the BMW Center for German and European Studies. My fields of specialization were modern German and European history. My principal research interests lay in the German Empire and the First World War. My interests grew out of work I that I did on the historian Karl Lamprecht, who aspired to write "total history," and collaborative work that I undertook with Stig Förster of the University of Berne on the history of "total war." The effort to bring these two concepts together, to write the total history of a total war, underlay the book that I published on the First World War in the southwestern German city of Freiburg i. Br. The book was published in English by the Cambridge University Press in 2007 and in German by the Schöningh Verlag in 2009.
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, l968
M.A. Stanford University, 1965
B.A. Cornell University, 1964
Professional Experience
Professor Emeritus of History, Georgetown University, 2010-
Professor of History, University of Oregon, 2010- (Courtesy Appointment)
Professor of History, BMW Center for German and European Studies (Joint Appointment in the Department of History), Georgetown University, 1993-2010
Research Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-2009
Research Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1996-97
Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1981-94
Visiting Research Fellow, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Freiburg i. Br., 1991-92
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, Spring Semester 1991
Visiting Research Fellow, Institut für neuere Geschichte, Ludwigs- Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1984-85
Visiting Research Fellow, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, Free University of Berlin, 1976-77
Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1974-81
Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1968-74
Instructor of History, Stanford University, 1967-68
Honors and Fellowships
Georgetown University, Career Research Achievement Award for 2010
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Research Fellowship 2008-2009
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, John Birkelund Senior Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
Georgetown University Graduate School, Senior Faculty Fellowship, 2000
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Research Fellowship, 1996-97
Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society, 1994
Gerda Henkel Foundation, Research Fellowship, 1991-92, 2008-2009
Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship, 1984-85, 1987
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Research Fellowship, 1980-81
Fulbright Commission, Research Fellowship, 1976-77
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Research Fellowship, 1971, 1972
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Younger Humanists, 1970-71
Phi Beta Kappa
Recent Publications
“Der Erste Weltkrieg als industrieller Volkskrieg,” Jörg Echternkamp and Hans-Hubertus Mack, eds., Geschichte ohne Grenzen? Europäische Dimension der Militärgeschichte vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute. Munich: DeGruyter/Oldenbourg, 2017, 49-55.
"George Washington überquert den Rhein: Zum großen Gemälde Emanuel Leutzes,” Karl Holl and Hans Kloft, eds., Elbe, Rhein und Delaware: Flüsse und Flussübergänge als Orte der Erinnerung. Bremen: editions lumiére, 2017. 121-27.
“Militarismus und Bellizismus,” Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 76. Beilage (2017): 110-19.
“Kuhn and Lamprecht,”History of Knowledge, September 14, 2018.
“The History of War and Military Affairs: Discussion Forum. The Vanishing Nineteenth Century in European History?” Central European History 51 (2018): 651-55.
“Deutschland im Jahre 1917,” Meike G. Werner, ed., Ein Gipfel für Morgen: Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein. Göttingen: Wallenstein Verlag, 2021. 26-36.
The German Empire, 1871-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024
Courses Taught at Georgetown
Undergraduate Courses
German History
European International Relations, 1789-1991
Europe in the Era of the Second World War
War and Society in Early Modern Europe
The First World War in Europe
National Socialism
The Holocaust and Its Representations
Graduate Courses
Issues and Literature in Modern European History:
New Approaches to Society and Culture
Europe in the “Golden Age,” 1871-1914
Introduction to German and European History (CGES)
Graduate Field Seminar and Colloquium in Modern
European History
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