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Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch
Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch was Director of the German Historical Instiute from 2002 to 2007. In April 2007, he became Professor of North American Cultural, Social, and Political History and Transatlantic Relations at the Amerika-Institut, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.

Dr. phil., Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, 1990
Dr. phil. habil., University of Cologne, 1998


Select Publications:

(Ed., with Thomas Zeller) Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, in press.

(With Jürgen Heideking) Geschichte der USA. Tübingen and Basel: Francke, 5th edition, 2007.

(Ed., with Thomas Zeller) The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Athens, OH: University of Ohio, 2007.

(Ed., with Nathan Stoltzfus and Doug Weiner) Shades of Green: Global Environmentalism in Historical Perspective. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

(Ed., with Andreas Daum) Berlin – Washington. Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities, 1800–2000. Publications of the German Historical Institute: Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

(Ed., with Alan Lessoff) Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America. New York: Berghahn Books in collaboration with the Historical Society of Washington, DC, 2005 (Winner of the Victorian Society of America's Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award, 2006).

(Ed.) Nature in German History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.

(Ed., with Joseph Salmons) German-Jewish Identities in America. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute and University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Shadow War Against Hitler. The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

(Ed., with Philipp Gassert) Mrs. President. Von Martha Washington bis Hillary Clinton. Stuttgart: Deutsche-Verlags-Anstalt, 2000.

Schattenkrieg gegen Hitler. Das Dritte Reich im Visier des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes. Stuttgart: Deutsche-Verlags-Anstalt, 1999.

(With Jürgen Heideking) American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler. Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1996.

(With Jürgen Heideking) USA und deutscher Widerstand: Analysen und Operationen des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Tübingen and Basel: Francke, 1993.

Poesie-Theologie-Politik: Studien zu Kurt Marti. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1992.

Kurt Marti: Texte-Daten-Bilder. Frankfurt: Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 1991.

(With Tobias Brenner) Für eine Welt ohne Krieg: Otto Umfrid und die Anfänge der Friedensbewegung. Schönaich: G.A. Ulmer, 1987.