Andreas Daum

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Andreas W. Daum is a German-American historian who specializes in modern European and transatlantic history, as well as the history of knowledge and global exploration.

Daum received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he taught for six years as an assistant professor. In 1996, he joined the German Historical Institute Washington DC as a research fellow. From 2001 to 2002, Daum was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Since 2003, he has been a professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and also served as an associate dean for undergraduate education in the provost's office.[1] He was a visiting scholar at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in 2010‒11.

He is best known as a biographer of Alexander von Humboldt[2] and for his works on popular science, emigrants from Nazi Germany, and the United States’ special relationship with "America’s Berlin".[3] His book Kennedy in Berlin highlights the role of emotions in the Cold War and provides a comprehensive explanation of John F. Kennedy's 1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.[4][5]

In 2019, he was awarded the Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award for international scientists and scholars, and invited to spend the year 2019–20 at the University of Munich.[6][7] He has received fellowships and grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, Smithsonian Institution, Gerda Henkel Foundation, DAAD, and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.

Books[]

  • Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848‒1914, a study on science popularization in the 19th century (1998, 2nd edition 2002)
  • Kennedy in Berlin (2007, German edition 2003)
  • Alexander von Humboldt (2019)

Edited Volumes[]

  • America, the Vietnam War and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives, with Lloyd C. Gardner and Wilfried Mausbach (2003)
  • Berlin ‒ Washington, 1800‒2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities, with Christof Mauch (2005, paperback 2011)
  • The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide, with Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan (2016, paperback 2018)

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References[]

  1. ^ Sue Wuetcher (November 8, 2007). "Daum Named Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education". University at Buffalo. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  2. ^ Daum, Andreas W. (March 2019). "Social Relations, Shared Practices, and Emotions: Alexander von Humboldt's Excursion into Literary Classicism and the Challenges to Science around 1800". Journal of Modern History. University of Chicago. 91 (1): 1–37. doi:10.1086/701757. S2CID 151051482. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  3. ^ Daum, Andreas W. (2000). "America's Berlin, 1945‒2000: Between Myths and Visions". In Trommler, Frank (ed.). Berlin: The New Capital in the East (PDF). The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University. pp. 49–73. Retrieved January 28, 2021. Also see Daum, Kennedy in Berlin, 1–20.
  4. ^ "Expert Weighs in on Major U.S. Speeches In Berlin". National Public Radio: All Things Considered. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  5. ^ Andreas W. Daum (2008). "No Free Lunch: Obama and Nietzsche in Berlin". History News Network, George Washington University, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 28, 2021. Also see Daum, Kennedy in Berlin, 136–56.
  6. ^ "Andreas Daum receives Humboldt Research Prize". University at Buffalo: Department of History. February 12, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  7. ^ "Neue Humboldt-Preisträger an der LMU". Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. May 28, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
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