Philipp Stelzel, Visiting Assistant Professor

Please note: Philipp has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	119 Carr Building
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Education:

PhD	University of North Carolina	2010
MA	Columbia University	2003

Research Interests: German History, Intellectual History, Transnational History

My current book project “A German Special Path: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989” analyzes the intellectual exchange between German and American historians from the end of World War II to the 1980s. In contrast to the prevailing interpretation—which views American historians of modern Germany as a monolithic group of left-liberal scholars—I emphasize their methodological, interpretive, and political diversity. I also reveal the degree to which the Germans began to associate progress and modernity with the American historical profession. I argue that “American connections” increasingly became an argument in West German historiographical debates, signifying methodological innovation.

Representative Publications

1. P. Stelzel, Working Toward a Common Goal? American Views on German Historiography and German- American Scholarly Relations during the 1960s, Central European History, vol. 41 no. 4 (2008), pp. 639-671
2. P. Stelzel, Fritz Fischer and the American Historical Profession: Tracing the Transatlantic Dimension of the Fischer-Kontroverse, Storia della Storiografia, vol. 44 no. 1 (2003), pp. 67-84
3. P. Stelzel, Bettina Hitzer/Thomas Welskopp (eds.), Die Bielefelder Sozialgeschichte: Klassische Texte zu einem geschichtswissenschaftlichen Programm und seinen Kontroversen, H-Soz-u-Kult (June, 2011)
4. P. Stelzel, Steffen Kailitz (ed.), Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit. Der „Historikerstreit“ und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik, and Volker Kronenberg (ed.), Zeitgeschichte, Wissenschaft und Politik. Der „Historikerstreit“ – 20 Jahre danach, H-Soz-u-Kult (May, 2009)
5. P. Stelzel, Gerhard A. Ritter (ed.), Friedrich Meinecke: Akademischer Lehrer und emigrierte Schüler,, H-German (October, 2007)

Selected Grant Support

• Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2010.      
• Doctoral Fellowship, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, 2007.      
• Doctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2006.      
• Fulbright Enterprise Scholarship (German Fulbright Commission/ZEIT Foundation) 2002/03.