Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg

Academic Career
Employment
Memberships and Professional Activities
Grants, Awards, Fellowships

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career:

1985: M.A. in Modern History (University of Heidelberg)

1988: Ph.D. in Modern History (University of Heidelberg)

1998: Habilitation in Modern History (Free University of Berlin)


Employment:

1989-1992: Assistant Professor at the History Department of the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin

1992-1997: Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

1998-2000: Adjunct Professor at the History Department of the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin

2000-2001: Visiting Professor of Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne

2001-2002: Visiting Professor of American History at the History Department of the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies of the Free University of Berlin

2002-2003: Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

2003-2005: Executive Director of the Center for U.S. Studies at the Leucorea Foundation, University of Halle-Wittenberg

Since 2005: Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg

2007-8: Chair of the History Department, Heidelberg University

2009: Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina   

from 10/01/2010: Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Heidelberg University

Memberships and Professional Activities:   

• German Association of American Studies
• Organization of American Historians
• Association of German Historians
• Editor, American Studies Journal, 2003-2005
• Reader, Amerikastudien/American Studies
• Reader, Journal of Southern History
• Reader, European Journal of American Studies
• Reader, Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
• Reader, Review of International Studies
• Reader, Zeithistorischen Studien/Studies in Contemporary History
• Reader, Journal of American History
• Reader, Journal of American Studies

• Member, Advisory Board des European Journal of American Studies
• Member, Willi Paul Adams Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians
• Member, Academic Advisory Board of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies
• Member, Academic Advisory Board of the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands
• Member, Program Committee of the Organization of American Historians, Annual Convention of 2011, Houston, Texas

Grants, Awards, Fellowships:   


•    1990: Ruprecht Karls Prize for best doctoral dissertation, University of Heidelberg

•    2002: Fellowship, American Studies Center des Salzburg Seminars

•    2005: Visting European Fellow, David K. Bruce Center for American Studies, Keele University, UK

•    2006: David Thelen Prize, Organization of American Historians, best foreign-language article in American history