Education
Habilitation: University of Mannheim, 1970
Ph.D. - University of London, 1964
M.A. - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1961

Current Departmental Service
Program Chair, Columbia University and The London School of Economics Dual Master's Degree Program in International and World History
Spending Priorities Committee

Interests and Research
Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor ofHistory, specializes in modern German history and European-Americanrelations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before coming to BrownUniversity in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later. His publications include: America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); and most recently Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006).

Courses
Modern Germany, 1871-2000
Europe, 1900-1945
European Historiography
European-American business relations
European-American cultural relations

Fellow, Royal Historical Society, England
Order of Merit, First Class, Federal Republic of Germany
Honorary Professor, University of Warwick
Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
Helmut-Schmidt Prize of ZEIT Foundation

Selected Books

Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer, Goettingen 2010
Europe in the Era of Two World Wars, 2006
America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe, 2001
Sarajewo 1914. Der Untergang des alten Europa, 1997
Imperial Germany, 1871-1914, 1995
Otto A. Friedrich. Ein politischer Unternehmer, 1993
The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945-1973, 1986
Militarism. The History of an International Debate, 1863-1979, 1982
Modern Germany. Economy, Society, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, 1982
Germany and the Approach of War in 1914, 1973

Selected Edited Volumes
with Simone Laessig, Between Structure and Agency, 2008
with Sigurt Vitols, Gibt es einen Deutschen Kapitalismus?, 2006
Quest for Economic Empire, 1996
with Wilhelm Deist, Rüstung im Zeichen der wilhelminischen Weltpolitik, 1988
with Martin Kitchen, Germany in the Age of Total War, 1981
Militarismus, 1975