Background
He is the son of historians Barbara and Charles Jelavich.
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Peter Jelavich
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He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (1979-1981) and he received his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1982.
Career
Previously, Jelavich was professor of history and chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Jelavich specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany. His areas of interest include the interaction of elite and popular culture.
The history of mass culture and the media.
And the application of cultural and social theories to historical study. Jelavich currently serves as President of the Friends of the German Historical Institute.
He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006).
