Roger Chickering is an American historian of the German Empire and World War I. He was a professor at Georgetown University, retiring in 2010.
Education
Chickering received his doctorate in 1968 at Stanford University, where he studied with Gordon A. Craig. Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914, published in 1975, was based on his dissertation.
Career
Professor of History, Bayerische Motoren Werke Center for German and European Studies (Joint Appointment in the Department of History), Georgetown University, 1993-2010 Research Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-2009 Research Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, District of Columbia, 1996-1997 Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1981-1994 Visiting Research Fellow, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Freiburg i. Branch, 1991-1992 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, Spring Semester 1991 Visiting Research Fellow, Institut für neuere Geschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1984-1985 Visiting Research Fellow, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, Free University of Berlin, 1976-1977 Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1974-1981 Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon, 1968-1974 Instructor of History, Stanford University, 1967-1968 Chickering retired from Georgetown University in While he began his career as a historian focusing on the German Empire, his interests increasingly migrated to the First World War. During his career, he published multiple monographs, edited volumes, and articles