Professor Dominik Geppert

Dominik Geppert (b.1970) is Chair of Modern History at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Before he moved to Bonn, he taught at universities in Berlin (1996-2000, 2005-7) and Marburg (2007/8). He was Junior Visitor at Nuffield College Oxford (1997/8), Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London (2000-5) and Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2006/7). Together with Hans-Peter Schwarz he is editor-in chief of Konrad Adenauer's private papers (Rhöndorfer Ausgabe). His main areas of research are in European political and cultural history of the 19th and 20th century, especially in the history of international relations, intellectual history and the interrelationship between the media, the public and politics.

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship

The Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship is a co-operation of the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Historical Institute London (GHIL), and the Gerda Henkel Professor’s home university. Its purpose is to promote awareness in Britain of German research on the history of the German Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, and to stimulate comparative work on German history in a European context. The first professorship in the field ‘Germany in Europe, 1945–2000’ was awarded in 2009.

Previous Visiting Professors:

2015/2016 - Prof Lutz Raphael (Trier): Transformations of industrial labour in Western Europe between 1970 and 2000
2014/2015 — Prof Dr Kiran Klaus Patel (Maastricht): Welfare in the Warfare State: Nazi Social Policy on the International Stage
2013/2014 — Prof Dr Dorothee Wierling (Hamburg): Coffee Worlds in Green Coffee and its Agents: The Hamburg Coffee Merchants in the 20th century
2012/2013 — Prof Dr Andreas Rödder (Mainz): The History of the Present
2011/2012 — Prof Dr Ute Daniel (Braunschweig): Media and politics - an entangled history (c. 1900-1980)
2010/2011 — Prof Dr Christoph Cornelißen (Frankfurt am Main): The British and German welfare states after "the great boom": public debates on social inequality and social justice since the 1970s
2009/2010 — Prof Dr Johannes Paulmann (Mainz): International aid and solidarity: Humanitarian commitment and the media in Germany, c. 1950-1985

Professor Dominik Geppert teaches the following course:

At Doctoral level:

HY501: International History Research Student Workshop

Professor Dominik Geppert's most recent publications.

• The Wars before the Great War. Conflict and International Politics before the Outbreak of the First World War, Cambridge 2015 (with William Mulligan and Andreas Rose).
• Sites of Imperial Memory. Commemorating Colonial Rule in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Manchester 2015 (with Frank Lorenz Müller).
• Ein Europa, das es nicht gibt. Die fatale Sprengkraft des Euro, 2nd ed., Berlin 2013.
• 'Die Rückkehr der deutschen Frage', in: Journal of Modern European History 11 (2013/3), pp. 272-78.
• 'Machtpolitik und Flottenbau vor 1914. Zur Neuinterpretation britischer Außenpolitik im Zeitalter des Hochimperialismus', in: Historische Zeitschrift 293 (2011),S. 401-37 (with Andreas Rose).