Norbert Finzsch

Curriculum Vitae

Visiting Professor at the Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität at Berlin, 2020 to present

Winner of the Meyer-Struckmann Award for lifetime achievement, 2017

Fellow of the International Graduate School “re:work“ „Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive“ at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2014/2015 

Distinguished EU Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley 2012-2013

Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Cologne, 2005-2007

Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, 2003

Professor of History and Director of the Anglo-American Department at the University of Cologne, 2001 to 2016

Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux III, Michel de Montaigne, 2000/2001

Fellow of the Center for International Government Studies (IGS) at the University of California at Berkeley, 1999/2000

Fellow of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, 1994, 1996 and 1997 

Professor of History and Chair at the University of Hamburg, 1992 to 2001

Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington DC, 1990 to 1992

Temporary appointment as Professor of History at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum 1989 (replacing Professor Jörn Rüsen)

Habilitation 1986 at the University of Cologne

Research Fellow of the French Foreign Ministry in Paris 1985

Research Fellow of the ACLS at the University of California at Berkeley 1983/84

Ph. D. summa cum laude in 1979 (University of Cologne)

Research Fellow of the DAAD in Berkeley, California 1977/78

M.A. (“Staatsexamen”) in History and German Literature (University of Cologne) 1977

Born in 1951, German citizen, member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, and Quantum e.V.