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

Achievements

• 2025: Senior Award for Excellence in International Exchange, DAAD Alumni Association USA
  
  2024: Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, SUNY Buffalo
  
  2019: Humboldt Research Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  
  2017: Baird Society Resident Scholarship, Smithsonian Institution
  
  2014–2015: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Research Fellowship
  
  2013: Humanities Institute: Faculty Fellowship, SUNY Buffalo
  
  2010–2012: Visiting Scholarship, Georgetown University, BMW Center for German and European Studies
  
  2006–2007: Faculty-in-Leadership Fellowship, SUNY Buffalo
  
  2001–2002: John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University, Center for European Studies
  
  2001–2002: Thyssen Fellowship, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (declined)
  
  2001–2002: Feodor Lynen Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation and Columbia University (declined)
  
  1996: Dissertation Fellowship, Gerda Henkel Foundation
  
  1992: Andrew Mellon Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society
  
  1992: Dissertation Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
  
  1984–1989: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
  
  

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.