Stefan Berger (born 1964) is the Director of the Institute for Social Movements,

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, Germany, and Chairman of the committee of the Library of the Ruhr Foundation. He is Professor of Social History at the Ruhr University. He specializes in

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and national identity studies,

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and historical theory, comparative labour studies, and the history of industrial heritage.

Biography

From 1985 to 1987 Berger attended the

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, where he studied history, political science and German literature. In 1990 he graduated with a PhD from the University of Oxford, with a thesis on ''The Labour Party and the SPD. A Comparison of their Structure and Development and a Discussion of the Relations Between the Two Movements, 1900–1933''. He was a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Plymouth in 1990/91, and from 1991 to 2000 he lectured in the same field at the School of European Studies,

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. Until 2011 he was Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the

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, UK A significant part of Berger's research and works is on the nationalization of history. Berger was instrumental in the programme 'Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST)' that the European Science Foundation organized between 2003 and 2008.

Selected works

*1994: *1997: *1999: *2004: *2005: *2007: * *2008: *2010: *2010:

References

External links

Homepage of ESF Scientific Programme "Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Europe (NHIST)"

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