Kiran Klaus Patel

Visiting Scholar
Assistant Professor
Modern History
Humboldt University

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x275
E-Mail: kpatel@fas.harvard.edu





Biographical Statement

Patel is an assistant professor of modern history at Humboldt University in Berlin. His main research interests are contemporary Germany, the history of the European integration process, trans-Atlantic history, and transnational history. After completing a comparative study on the reaction of Nazi Germany and New Deal America to the Great Depression of the 1930s (2003; translated into English as Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945, 2005), he is presently working on the history of the European integration process. As a Kennedy Memorial Fellow, he will be in residence at CES from September of 2006 through July of 2007.