Stefan Berger (historian)
Stefan Berger | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 61–62) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Organizations | |
| Known for | Modern 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 party | SPD |
| Other political affiliations | Labour Party |
| Board member of | DGB's 'Memory Cultures of Social Democracy' commission (2018-2021) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | 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 (1990) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Social history |
| Website | Stefan 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.