Nationalizing the Past ― Historians As Nation Builders in Modern Europe

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany, as well as Executive Chair of the Foundation Library of the Ruhr. Previously, he was Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He has published widely on the history of historiography, national identity, memory history, and the history of social movements.

Chris Lorenz is Professor in German Historical Culture at the VU University Amsterdam and connected to the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam. At present he is Senior Research Fellow at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He has previously been Professor of Philosophy of History at the University of Leiden and taught history of ideas at Amsterdam University College. He has published widely on philosophy of history, comparative historiography, history and memory, and higher education policies.