Kiran Klaus Patel

Kiran Klaus Patel (born October 3, 1971 in Villingen ) is a German- British historian .

Life

Patel graduated from high school in 1991 at the Fürstenberg-Gymnasium in Donaueschingen. He then studied history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and at the Humboldt University of Berlin (1992–1997). In 1999 he spent several months researching at the German Historical Institute in Washington .

In 2001 he did his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin under Heinrich August Winkler . His dissertation soldiers work. Labor Services in Germany and the USA, 1933–1945 with a comparison between the Reich Labor Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz and the Tiburtius Recognition Prize; In addition to the German original version (2003), an English translation was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005 .

In 2002 he was the first modern historian in Germany to be appointed junior professor. From 2002 to 2007 he held this position in the field of modern and contemporary history at the Humboldt University. In 2006/2007 he was a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University . From 2007 to 2011 he was Professor of European History and Transatlantic Relations at the Department of History and at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence .

From 2011 to 2019 he was Professor of European and Global History at Maastricht University and at the same time Head of the Department of History. From 2013 to 2016 he was also a Senior Permanent Fellow of the research group “The Transformative Power of Europe” at FU Berlin . Patel was also a Visiting Professor / Senior Visiting Fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , the University of Freiburg , the University of Oxford and Sciences Po in Paris. In the academic year 2014/15 he was Gerda Henkel visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the German Historical Institute in London. From September 2015 to August 2019, Patel held the Jean Monnet Chair of History at Maastricht University .

In the 2019/20 winter semester he took up the chair for 19th and 20th century European history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

From 2006 to 2009 he was the spokesman for the joint project “Imagined Europeans” financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . His work, Europeanization against Will, presented in 2009 . The Federal Republic of Germany in the Agricultural Integration of the EEC, 1955–1975 , was reviewed shortly after it appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a "milestone in the history of European integration".

In 2016 he published the monograph The New Deal: A Global History at Princeton University Press , which investigates the role of the USA in the 1930s and 1940s in a global context in a comparative and relational direction. The American Historical Review stated: "Patel's story will become the definitive account". In 2017 the book was awarded the WHA Bentley Book Prize of the World History Association. An Italian translation of the book was published by Einaudi in 2018 .

In 2018 he wrote the book Project Europe. A critical story is presented which refutes the claim that the European institutions have been a successful peace power from the start. The press editorial team of Deutschlandfunk named it one of the best five non-fiction books of the year.

In 2013, Patel was appointed by Ursula von der Leyen as a member of a historian's commission, which is to research the history of the predecessor institutions of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs during the period of National Socialism until the post-war period of both German states. In 2019 Patel became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .

Patel has been married since 2002 and has three children.

Fonts

author

• "Soldiers of Labor". Labor services in Germany and the USA, 1933–1945 (= Critical Studies in History . Vol. 153). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-35138-0 .
• After the national fixation. Perspectives on a transnational history (= public lectures. Vol. 128). Humboldt University, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86004-171-1 .
• Europeanization against will. The Federal Republic of Germany in the Agricultural Integration of the EEC, 1955–1975 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59146-0 .
• Transnational history. In: European History Online . December 3, 2010.
• together with Ulrike von Hirschhausen : Article Europeanization , Version: 1.0, published in Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte on November 29, 2010.
• Op zoek naar een nieuw verleden. Europese integratie in historical perspectief (= Oratie, Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences ), Maastricht 2012.
• The New Deal : A Global History . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2016, ISBN 978-0-691-14912-7 .
• (Br) Exit. Algeria, Greenland and the forgotten history of the current debate . In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 14 (2017), pp. 112–127.
• Project Europe. A critical story . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-406-72768-9 .
• together with Frank M. Bischoff : What is at stake. About the price of silence between history and archives in the digital age . In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 17 (2020), pp. 145–156.

Editor (selection)

• With Christof Mauch : a race for modernity. The USA and Germany from 1890 to the present day . Pantheon-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-570-55069-4 , English: The United States and Germany during the 20th Century: Competition and Convergence . Cambridge University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-14561-9 .
• Fertile Ground for Europe? The History of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4494-0 .
• With Lorraine Bluche and Veronika Lipphardt: The European - a construct. Stocks of knowledge, discourses, practices . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0444-4 .
• With Frauke Stuhl and Julia Franke: The Invention of the European. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Kreuzberg Museum, January 31–3. May 2009 . Kreuzberg-Museum, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-026449-8 .
• With Martin Conway: Europeanization in the Twentieth Century. Historical approaches . Palgrave, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-23268-6 .
• The Cultural Politics of Europe. European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s . Routledge, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-415-52149-9 .
• With Heike Schweitzer: The Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-966535-8 .
• With Kenneth Weisbrode: European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s . Cambridge University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-03156-2 .

Web links

• Kiran Klaus Patel on the Ludwig Maximilians University website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiran Patel awarded EU funding as Jean Monnet Chair ( Memento from September 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Official website of Maastricht University. News from September 3, 2015. Accessed October 14, 2015.
2. ^ In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 30, 2010.
3. ↑ American Historical Review 121, 5 (2016), pp. 1625–1627.
4. ^ The World History Association (WHA). Retrieved August 28, 2017 (American English). 
5. ^ Kiran Klaus Patel: Project Europe. A critical story . Review. Deutschlandfunk, September 24, 2018. Accessed January 3, 2019.
6. ↑ Review - The best for last. Retrieved January 8, 2019 (German). 
7. ↑ Von der Leyen appoints independent historians' commission , press release of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, April 10, 2013, accessed on June 3, 2013.