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Prof Dr. Hartmut Berghoff

Director
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington DC 20009
U.S.A.
Phone +1.202.387.3355

please send all e-mails to Prof. Berghoff's assistant Lemlem Meconen-Anderson
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Education
  • 1997: Habilitation. Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
  • 1998: PhD (summa cum laude), University of Bielefeld
  • 1986 to 1989: PhD student in economic and modern history at the University of Bielefeld
  • 1980 to 1986: Undergraduate and graduate student at Bielefeld University, Cambridge University, Technical University Berlin, Free University Berlin, and London School of Economics
  • 1979: Abitur at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Herford/Westphalia

 

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
  • 2007: Newcomen-Harvard Article Award 2006, presented by the Newcomen Society of the United States for the year’s best article in Business History Review
  • 2006: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School
  • 2004: Second prize in the competition "Das Historische Buch 2004," organized by the internet forum H-Soz-u-Kult, for the collection Wirtschaftsgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte (ed. with Jakob Vogel)
  • since 2004: Founding member and project supervisor, Graduiertenkolleg "Generationengeschichte" (Graduate Research Program "Generations in History"), Georg August-University Göttingen
  • since 2003: Founding member of and research supervisor, Graduiertenkolleg "Interdisziplinäre Umweltgeschichte" (Graduate Research Program "Interdisciplinary Environmental History"), Georg August-University Göttingen
  • 2002: Fellowship Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin)
  • 1999 - 2001: Founding member of the Sonderforschungsbereich 437, Kriegserfahrungen, Krieg und Gesellschaft in der Neuzeit (German Research Council Special Research Group 437, "War Experience, War and Society in the Modern Era"), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
  • 1998: ABB-Wissenschaftspreis, awarded by the Baden-Württemberg Museum of Technology and Work, Mannheim, for the book Zwischen Kleinstadt und Weltmarkt. Hohner und die Harmonika 1857 bis 1961. Unternehmensgeschichte als Gesellschaftsgeschichte
  • 1995 - 1997: Research Fellowship, German Research Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship
  • 1990: Dissertation Award of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft