Roger Chickering

Roger Chickering studied at Cornell and Stanford. He has taught at Stanford, the University of Oregon, and Georgetown University, where, in 1993, he was appointed Professor of History in the BMW Center for German and European Studies. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin. His published scholarship on German and European history has emphasized questions of peace, war, and historiography. His publications include Imperial Germany and a World Without War (Princeton University Press, 1975); We Men Who Feel Most German (Allen and Unwin, 1984); Karl Lamprecht (Humanities Press, 1993); Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 1998; 3d ed. 2014; German edition, Beck Verlag, 2002); and The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2007; German edition, Schöningh Verlag, 2009). With Stig Förster, he coordinated a conference series on “The United States and Germany in the Age of Total War, 1775-1945,” the results of which were published in six volumes by the Cambridge University Press between 1997 and 2010. He is also co-editor of the Cambridge History of War, volume 4: War in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2012). A revised German edition of his Lamprecht biography, Karl Lamprecht: Das Leben eines deutschen Historikers 1856-1915 (Steiner Verlag) appeared in 2021. In 2025, the Cambridge University Press published The German Empire, 1871-1918. He retired from Georgetown in 2010 and now holds a courtesy professorship at the University of Oregon. He lives in South Beach, Oregon.