Education
In 2003, Gerwarth received his Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford.
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historian university professor
Career
Since finishing a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford, he has held fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, the NIOD (Amsterdam) and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia. While working on his doctorate at the University of Oxford, Gerwarth was appointed to a two-year lectureship in modern European history. Shortly thereafter, he was awarded a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship.
Gerwarth is currently Director of the Centre for War Studies at University College Dublin.
In 2008, Gerwarth combated Holocaust-denier David Irving on Irish television Gerwarth has been commended for the thoroughness of his research on Reinhard Heydrich in his book Heydrich did not leave behind a substantive paper trail.
Gerwarth is credited with dispelling several myths about Heydrich, verifying that Heydrich was not Jewish and that he was a relative latecomer to membership in the Nazi Party. Gerwarth"s other scholarly work has been published widely in international journals such as The Journal of Modern History, Past & Present, Geschichte & Gesellschaft and Vingtième Siècle.
He is series editor for the Oxford University Press monograph series, The Greater War, 1912-1923, to be released during the centenary of the First World War.
Gerwarth was raised during the final years of the Cold War in Berlin, Germany. At age 13 he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gerwarth says that living in such a significant historical city sparked his interest in European history.
Of his career path Gerwarth says "I have no regrets in following this career pathological
I love being a historian." Other hobbies include skiing, rowing and reading for pleasure. Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe (with Doctorate Bloxham).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Twisted Paths: Europe 1914–1945.
2007. Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain (with Doctorate Geppert).
2008. Terrorism in Twentieth-Century Europe (with HG Haupt). London: University Press.
2007. Constitutions: Civility and Violent Collapse in Europe (with J Harris and H Nehring).
Munich: University Press.
Politics
In 2000, Gerwarth earned a master"s in history and politics from Humboldt University of Berlin. Reviews have noted Gerwarth"s diligence in digging through archives and other sources in the United States and Ireland in order to uncover the nature of his subject.
