Margaret Lavinia Anderson is professor emerita at

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where she teaches about Europe since 1453;

Central Europe Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, based on a common historical, social and cultural identity. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between Catholicism and Protestantism significantly shaped the ar ...

from the late 18th century, especially modern Germany; World War I;

Fascist Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and t ...

Europe. She won a 2001 Berlin prize by the

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, and was a 2008

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. She was a fellow at

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Life

Her research is about political culture, including electoral politics, in

Imperial Germany The German Empire (), Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditar ...

and in comparative European perspective; the intersection of

religion Religion is usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

and

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studie ...

; religion and society–especially

Catholicism The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

in the 19th century. She is now working on the relations (on the level of governments as well as civil society) between Germany and the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

from the time of the

Hamidian massacres The Hamidian massacres also called the Armenian massacres, were massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s. Estimated casualties ranged from 100,000 to 300,000, Akçam, Taner (2006) '' A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide an ...

of the

Ottoman Armenians Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (or Ottoman Armenians) mostly belonged to either the Armenian Apostolic Church or the Armenian Catholic Church. They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equal ...

in 1894-1896 to c. 1933. She was on the Academic Advisory Council of the German Historical Institute. She completed her Ph.D. at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Provide ...

and her B.A. at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established as ...

. She is married to James J. Sheehan, a historian at

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Selected works

*'' Windthorst: A Political Biography''.

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, 1981, *''Windthorst: Zentrumspolitiker und Gegenspieler Bismarcks''. Droste, 1988, * * Review article "Piety and Politics: Recent Work on German Catholicism," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 63, No. 4, December 1991 * *"Voter, Junker, Landrat, Priest: The Old Authorities and the new Franchise in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914," ''American Historical Review'', Volume 98, Issue 5 (December 1993): pages 1448-1474 *"The Limits of Secularization: On the Problem of the Catholic Revival in 19th Century Germany," ''Historical Journal'', 38, 3 (95): 647-670 *"Clerical Election Influence and Communal Solidarity: Catholic Political Culture in the German Empire, 1871-1914," Elections before Democracy. Essays on the Electoral History of Latin America and Europe, Macmillan (NY, New York and London, Eng), 96 * "'Down in Turkey, far away': Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 79, No. 1, March 2007 *"The Divisions of the Pope: The Catholic Revival and Europe's Transition to Democracy," Rivals and Revivals: Religion and politics in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America and Europe, forthcoming.

References

External links

University of California Berkeley, Department of HistoryHistory of Europe podcast
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