Stefan Berger (historian)

Stefan Berger
Born1964 (age 61–62)
OccupationHistorian
Organizations
Known forModern and contemporary European history, especially of Germany and Britain, nationalism and national identity studies, history of historiography and historical theory, labour history and industrial heritage
Political partySPD
Other political
affiliations
Labour Party
Board member ofDGB's 'Memory Cultures of Social Democracy' commission (2018-2021)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
ThesisThe Labour Party and the SPD. A Comparison of their Structure and Development and a Discussion of the Relations Between the Two Movements, 1900–1933 (1990)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineSocial history
WebsiteStefan Berger publications on Academia.edu

Stefan Berger (born 1964) is the Director of the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, 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 nationalism and national identity studies, historiography and historical theory, comparative labour studies, and the history of industrial heritage. Berger is the editor-in-chief of Moving the Social journal.