James J. Sheehan

James J. Sheehan (2014)

James John Sheehan (born May 31, 1937 in San Francisco ) is an American historian who is particularly concerned with modern European history . He is one of the leading historians of Germany in the USA and was President of the American Historical Association (2005).

Life

Sheehan graduated from Stanford University , which he graduated in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The following year, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley the Master of Arts and was the same location in 1964 Doctor of Philosophy PhD . He then taught as an assistant professor at Northwestern University before being called back to Stanford in 1979 to succeed Gordon A. Craig . He has been Dickason Professor in the Humanities since 1986 and Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies since 2000 .

Sheehan's work focuses on modern German and European history, including German liberalism , the German Reich and the history of European unification . He is the author of numerous articles and books.

Sheehan is married to Margaret L. Anderson, a historian at the University of California, Berkeley.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1985–86
Member of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, 1989–90
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , since 1992
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1992–93
Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, 1995–96
Corresponding member of the Royal Historical Society
Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1998
Guggenheim Fellow , 2000–2001
Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 2001
Member of the American Philosophical Society , 2001
The Paul Davies Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, since 2003
President of the American Historical Association , 2005
Pour le Mérite (Peace Class), 2006
Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009

The Career of Lujo Brentano: A Study of Liberalism and Social Reform in Imperial Germany , Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century , Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978.
German History, 1770–1866 , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe , Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.
With Andreas W. Daum and Hartmut Lehmann (eds.): The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 .

Literature by and about James J. Sheehan in the catalog of the German National Library
Personal homepage at the Stanford Department of History ( English )
Personal homepage and complete list of publications at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University ( English )

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^ Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Europeans Are From Venus. In: The New York Times. February 10, 2008, accessed October 20, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sheehan, James J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sheehan, James John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian, professor of history at Stanford University
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco