David Blackbourn

Historian

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x228
E-Mail: dgblackb@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard and director of CES. He teaches courses on modern German and European history and 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). Blackbourn is on the editorial board of Past and Present and vice-president of 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 president of the Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association in 2003–2004.