Andreas W. Daum

Education

B.A., with distinction, University of Cologne, 1985

M.A., with highest distinction, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany, 1990

Dr. phil., summa cum laude, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany, 1995

Career

Assistant Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, 1990‒1996.

Research Fellow German History Institute, Washington, 1996‒2001, Acting Deputy Director, 2001

John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow Harvard University, 2001‒2002

Professor of History, SUNY Buffalo, since 2003

Associate Dean Undergraduate Education, Office of the Provost, SUNY Buffalo, 2007‒10

Visiting Scholar, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, 2010‒11

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellow, 2014‒2015

Baird Resident Scholar, Smithsonian Institution, 2017

Humboldt Prize Scholar, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, 2019‒2020

Works

• book

  • Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography 2024

  • The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians

    2016

  • Kennedy in Berlin

    2008

  • Berlin ‒ Washington, 1800–2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities

    2005

  • America, the Vietnam War and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives

    2003

  • Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914

    1998

Membership

Member of Verband der Historiker Deutschlands, Society History of America Foreign Relations, History Science Society, American History Association.