Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939) is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard.

Charles S. Maier
Born (1939-02-23) February 23, 1939 (age 85)
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard University

Biography

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Maier served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, 1994-2001, and currently co-directs (with Sven Beckert, Sugata Bose, and Jean Comaroff) the Weatherhead Initiative in Global History. He taught at Duke University 1976-81 and has also held various visiting professorships in Europe. He was married from 1961 to 2013 to the late Pauline Maier (née Rubbelke), Professor at MIT and noted American historian. In 2017 he married Marjorie Anne Sa'adah, professor emerita of government at Dartmouth College. He has three children and eight grandchildren.

Awards and honors

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He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt research prize fellowship, the Cross of Honor of the German Federal Republic, and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class, of the Republic of Austria. The University of Padua awarded him a laurea honoris causa in European Studies in January 2018.

Partial bibliography

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Books

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  • The Origins of the Cold War and contemporary Europe (New York, 1978)
  • Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1975. Reprinted with new prefaces, 1988 and 2015.
  • In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
  • The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988)
  • Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)
  • Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)
  • Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014; also in Worlds Connected, Emily Rosenberg, ed. Harvard University Press, 2012)
  • Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)
  • The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023)

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