Marcus Gräser is a Deputy Director of the Institute. He studied history, sociology, and political science at Frankfurt and received his PhD in 1993. From 1996 until 2009 he occupied positions as Research Fellow and Research Associate at the University of Frankfurt's Center for North American Studies. In 2005 he completed his Habilitation. He has taught at Frankfurt and Heidelberg and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago several times. In 2002/03 he was a Research Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften; in 2006 he was a Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut for European History in Vienna. He is presently preparing the volume on North America in the series "Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte".

• Modern American, German, Habsburg/Austrian history
• History of the welfare state
• Urban history
• History of historiography
• Comparative and transnational history

since 2010	Deputy Director, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
2009 - 2010	Visiting professor in the Chair of American History at the University of Heidelberg
1996 - 2010	Research Fellow and Research Associate, Center for North American Studies, University of Frankfurt am Main