Geoff Eley


Name: Geoff Eley

Title(s):

  • Professor and Chair
  • Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History

Contact Information: 734.764.6373 , ghe@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=64

International Institute Affiliation(s):

  • CES-EUC
  • CREES
  • WCED

Department Affiliation(s):

  • History
  • Germanic Languages

Education Background: D.Phil., Sussex University, 1974; B.A., Balliol College, Oxford University, 1970

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

  • European Studies

Related Countries:

  • Germany
  • United Kingdom

Research/Teaching Specialization: Europe, 1989-present; Germany 1789-present; cultural studies; historiography; social theory

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Europe since 1700; Europe 1890-1945; Europe since 1945; Men, Women, and Nations; Germany 1890-1920; Contemporary Britain; Gramsci; History and Film: Reimagining Britain, 1945-2000; The Left in Europe; Nations and Nationalism; Thinking about the (Post)Modern; Culture, Practice, and Social Change; Large-Scale Social and Political Transformations

Publications:

  • Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany . 2007. (Authored Book)
  • Wilhelminism and its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930. 2003. (Authored Book)
  • Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory. 1993. (Edited Book)
  • A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming November 2005). 2005. (Authored Book)
  • Becoming National: A Reader. 1996. (Edited Book)
  • Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930: New Approaches. 1996. (Edited Book)
  • The" Goldhagen Effect":. History, Memory, Nazism: Facing the German Past. 2000. (Edited Book)
  • Reshaping the German Right. 1980; 1991. (Authored Book)
  • Forjando a Democracia. A história da esquerda na Europa, 1850-2000 (Portuguese edition of Forging Democracy:The History of the Left in Europe). 2005. (Authored Book)
  • Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000. 2002. (Authored Book)