David Blackbourn

Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard and director of CES. He teaches courses on German and European history. His books include Class, Religion and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980), The Peculiarities of German History (with G. Eley, 1984), Populists and Patricians (1987), Marpingen (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 is chair of the advisory board of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington. He is currentlywriting a book provisionally called Germany in the World,1600-2000: A Transnational History.