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PD Dr. Philipp Gassert
Deputy Director German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington DC 20009 U.S.A. Phone +1.202.387.3355 
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 Philipp Gassert has left the GHI to take up a teaching position at the University of Augsburg. Biographical Summary Philipp Gassert is Deputy Director of the GHI. He is on leave from the University of Heidelberg, where he is Associate Professor of History (Privatdozent). His research focuses on 20th-century century international history, the history of transatlantic relations, National Socialism, and post-1945 contemporary German and European History. He studied history, economics, and public law at Heidelberg, Angers, and Michigan. He received his Ph.D. and his degree of Habilitation from the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung, 1933-1945 (Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997), Kurt Georg Kiesinger: Kanzler zwischen den Zeiten (DVA, 2006), and co-author of Kleine Geschichte der USA (Stuttgart, 2007). He is the editor and co-editor of numerous volumes, including 1968 the World Transformed (Cambridge UP, 1998), and Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 (Berghahn Books, 2006). He is completing a study of 20th-century anti-Americanism and also working on a book on the middle decades of West German history entitled Die paradoxe Republik: Westdeutschland von Erhard bis Schmidt, 1963-1982. He is the co-founder of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) and was a DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
International and transatlantic history; contemporary German and European history; National Socialism; history of social protest in Europe and the United States; Americanism and Anti-Americanism.
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