Charles S. Maier

Historian

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x273
E-Mail: csmaier@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard and served as director of CES in the fall semester of 2006 and from 1994 to 2001. He taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in the spring of 2007, and during the academic year 2007–2008 he will serve as acting chair of the undergraduate degree program in social studies. He will also teach Historical Studies B-53 (The First World War), History 10c (World History since 1800), and, together with Niall Ferguson, History 1964 and 1965, a two-semester sequence on international history. Maier is the author most recently of Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (2006). Earlier books include Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (1997), The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1988), In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (1987), and Recasting Bourgeois Europe (1975, 1988). He has also edited several collaborative volumes on the politics of inflation, the Marshall Plan, and other themes. Together with William Kirby and Sugata Bose, Maier is collaborating on a global history of the twentieth century, and he is writing a history of modern territoriality.