Dirk Bonker, Associate Professor  

Dirk Bonker

Office Location: 208 Classroom Building
Office Phone: 684 3930
Email Address: dirk.bonker@duke.edu

Mailing Address

Education:
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2002

Expertise:
Military History
Global Transnational History
Cultural History
Gender
Comparative Colonial Studies
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Legal History
European and Russia
United States and Canada

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • History 476s.01, Cap sem: american militarism Synopsis
    Class bldg 229, W 08:30 AM-11:00 AM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Bönker, D, Militarism in a global age: Naval ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I (January, 2012), pp. 1-421, Cornell University Press (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.)  [abs].
  2. Bonker, D, A German Way of War? Narratives of German Militarism and Maritime Warfare in World War I, in Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives, ed. Sven Oliver Müller and Cornelius Torp (Berghahn Books, 2011), 227-237, edited by Muller, SO; Torp, C (2011), pp. 227-237, Berghahn Books .