David Spreen is a historian of modern Germany with research interests in the inter-/transnational entanglements of decolonization, the global Cold War, and the broad social and cultural transformations of the postcolonial period. He received his Ph.D...
On Leave Spring 2026
Executive Assistant: Heather Meeker Green (heather_meekergreen@fas.harvard.edu)
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at...
Alison Frank Johnson's teaching and research focus on the history of German-speaking Europe and the Habsburg Monarchy. Her first book, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), was awarded the Barbara Jelavich 2006 Book Prize, the...
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:00pm. The Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Room 305.
Peter Gordon specializes in modern European Intellectual History from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. He works chiefly on themes in...