CELIA APPLEGATE is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s Revival of the St Matthew Passion (Ithaca, NY, and London, 2005), and A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat (Berkeley, 1990). She is co-editor of Music and German National Identity (Chicago, 2002) with Pamela Potter. She currently serves as vice-president of the German Studies Association.
ROGER CHICKERING is Professor of History in the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. His publications include Imperial Germany and a World without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892–1914 (Princeton, 1975); We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886–1914 (London, 1984); Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life (1856–1915) (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1993); Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 (Cambridge, 1998, 2nd edn 2004), and The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914–1918 (Cambridge, 2007). He is currently undertaking a project on the mobilization of agriculture in modern German history.
CHRISTOPHER CLARK is Reader in Modern European History at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. His most recent publication is Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600–1947 (Cambridge, MA, 2006). He is also the author of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Harlow and New York, 2000); Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728–1941 (Oxford and New York, 1995); and co-editor of Culture Wars: Catholic–Secular Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge, 2003) with Wolfram Kaiser. His current writing project has the working title The Age of Circulation: Europe after 1848.
SEBASTIAN CONRAD is Professor of Modern History at the European University Institute, Florence. His publications include Globalisierung und Nation im Deutschen Kaiserreich (Munich, 2006) and several edited works, among them Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s (New York, 2007) with Dominic Sachsenmaier; Globalgeschichte. Theorien, Ansätze, Themen (Frankfurt a.M., 2007) with Andreas Eckert and Ulrike Freitag; ‘Beyond Hegemony? Europe and the Politics of Non-Western Elites, 1900–1930’, thematic issue of the Journal of Modern European History 4 (2) (2006); and Das Kaiserreich transnational. Deutschland in der Welt, 1871–1914 (Göttingen, 2006) with Jürgen Osterhammel.
EDWARD ROSS DICKINSON is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Davis. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991, after which he taught for nine years at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has published on German child welfare policy, sex reform and Christian moral reform in Germany, the German women’s movements, social reform and eugenics, the history of sexuality in modern Germany, and the policing of sex crimes in Germany. He is currently working on a project on the Alps.
BRETT FAIRBAIRN is Professor and Head of the Department of History and Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan. He conducts research and teaches in the fields of the history of democracy and social movements in Germany, North America, and worldwide, as well as the interdisciplinary study of co-operatives and social economy. His publications in the area of German history include Democracy in the Undemocratic State: The German Reichstag Elections of 1898 and 1903 (Toronto, 1997) and also articles and essays on German politics and social movements.
MARK HEWITSON is a Senior Lecturer in German Politics and History at University College London. His publications include National Identity and Political Thought in Germany: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890–1914 (Oxford, 2000) and Germany and the Causes of the First World War (Oxford, 2004). He has written articles on the construction of national identities and on aspects of German political, economic, social, military, and diplomatic history. He is currently working on a study of the politics of nationalism in Germany in the period from the 1840s to the 1930s.
THOMAS KÜHNE is Professor of History and Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. His book Dreiklassenwahlrecht und Wahlkultur in Preussen 1867–1914 (Düsseldorf, 1994) won the German Bundestag Prize. Since changing his focus to twentieth-century gender and military history, his recent work deals with the mythical ideal of comradeship among German soldiers, including Kameradschaft. Die Soldaten des nationalsozialistischen Krieges und das 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen, 2006). His edited books include Männergeschichte—Geschlechtergeschichte (Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 1996) and Massenhaftes Töten. Kriege and Genozide im 20. Jahrhundert (Essen, 2004) with Peter Gleichmann.
KATHARINE ANNE LERMAN is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University. She is the author of The Chancellor as Courtier: Bernhard von Bülow and the Governance of Germany, 1900–1909 (Cambridge, 1990) and Bismarck (Harlow, 2004). She has written widely on Imperial Germany’s political history and political culture. Most recently she has researched the ceremonial function of royal hunts and shooting parties in the German Empire. She is currently working on a study of women in the Wilhelmine ruling elite.
JAMES RETALLACK is Professor of History and German Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The German Right, 1860–1920 (Toronto, 2006); Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Basingstoke and New York, 1996); and Notables of the Right (Boston and London, 1988). He has co-edited Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place (Toronto, 2007) with David Blackbourn and Wilhelminism and Its Legacies (Oxford and New York, 2003) with Geoff Eley. He has also edited a volume of online documents and images on Bismarckian Germany for the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. He is nearing completion of a book on electoral culture and the authoritarian state in Saxony and Germany from 1860 to 1918.
ANGELIKA SCHASER is Professor of Modern History at the University in Hamburg. Her recent publications include studies on minorities, on collective memories, on nation and gender in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history, and on self-narratives. She is the author of Josephinische Reformen und sozialer Wandel in Siebenbürgen. Die Bedeutung des Konzivilitätsreskriptes für Hermannstadt (Stuttgart, 1989); Helene Lange und Gertrud Bäumer. Eine politische Lebensgemeinschaft (Vienna, 2000); and Frauenbewegung in Deutschland 1848–1933 (Darmstadt, 2006). She is currently working on a study of religious conversions in the nineteenth century.
JEFFREY VERHEY teaches at Humbolt University Berlin. He studied history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Göttingen, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Davis, and the Free University Berlin. He is the author of The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany (Cambridge, 2000). He contributed to volume 2 of Jay Winter and John-Louis Robert (eds), Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1919 (Cambridge, 2007) and is currently working on propaganda, public opinion, and democracy in Germany, 1914–1933.