School of History University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland phone: robert.gerwarth@ucd.ie. Academic Qualifications

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1 Professor Robert Gerwarth, DPhil, MRIA, FRHistS School of History University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland phone: robert.gerwarth@ucd.ie Academic Qualifications DPhil in Modern History, Oxford University My doctoral thesis was examined by Professor Niall Ferguson and Professor Sir Ian Kershaw. The book based on the thesis was published by OUP and won the 2004 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, jointly awarded by the Wiener Library and the Institute of Contemporary History (London). Magister Artium in Modern History and Politics, Humboldt Universität, Berlin My MA thesis was written under the joint supervision of Professor Heinrich August Winkler and Professor Herfried Münkler. In May 2000, I graduated with the highest First that can be awarded by a German university (1,0 mit Auszeichnung). Academic Appointments Professor of Modern History, University College Dublin Director, Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin ( University Lecturer in Modern European History, University College Dublin British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford Departmental Lecturer in Modern European History, Balliol College & History Faculty, Oxford University Visiting Fellowships 2014 Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellow; European University Institute, Florence 2013 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow; Herder Institute, Marburg 2011 Member; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2008 German Research Council (DFG)- funded Visiting Fellow; Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld 2007 Research Fellow; Centre for European Studies, Harvard University 2005 British Council Research Fellow; NIOD, Amsterdam 2004 Institute for Advanced Study, University of Western Australia Institutional Affiliations Member of the Young Academy of Europe Member of the Royal Irish Academy Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1

2 Funding ID PI; Marie Curie Fellowship 2012 Short- list, Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (Hitler s Hangman) Irish Research Council Senior Research Award ( 100,000) European Research Council Starting Grant ( 1.2 million) 2009 UCD Major Strategic Investment Grant ( 50,000) Irish Research Council Thematic Research Grant ( 300,000) Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant ( 80,000) British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (stipend declined in favour of British Academy funding) 2006 Conference Grants by the British Academy and the John Fell OUP Research Fund 2006 Conference Grants by the German History Society, the British Academy, the German Historical Institute London and Oxford University Conference Grants by the British Academy, the European University Institute and the Oxford University Research Development Fund 2005 British Council / Netherlands Royal Academy of Science Award for a collaborative research project with the NIOD (Amsterdam) 2004 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History awarded by the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library (London) for The Bismarck Myth Bryce Research Scholarship in Modern History, Oxford University Doctoral Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Doctoral Fellowship, Konrad- Adenauer- Foundation International Conferences Organised 2014 Himmler s European Army : A transnational history of the SS (Torun, May 2014) Global Perspectives on the Great War, two- part conference series organized with and held at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sao Paulo, Brazil (August 2013) 2012 The Greater War: Imperial Mobilization, Demobilization, and Unrest in the Era of the First World War (Dublin, May 2012) 2008 & 2010 Paramilitary Violence after the Great War (Dublin, Dec and May 2010), co- organized with Professor John Horne Hero Cults in Modern Europe: Comparative Perspectives, Birkbeck College, London, June 2008, co- organised with Professor Lucy Riall History of Political Violence in Twentieth- Century Europe (NIOD, Amsterdam, June 2007), co- organised with Professor Peter Romijn Constitutions in Modern Europe: Civility and Violent Collapse (Oxford, March 2007), co- organised with Professor Jose Harris War in Twentieth Century Europe: Comparative Approaches (European University Institute, Florence, September 2006), co- organised with Professor Heinz- Gerhard Haupt 2006 Genocide in Twentieth Century Europe (Edinburgh, September 2006), co- organised with Professor Donald Bloxham 2006 Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Cultural Contacts and Transfers (Oxford, March 2006) 2005 Terrorism in Twentieth Century Europe (Oxford, September 2005) 2

3 Selected Publications Monographs: The Vanquished: Europe and the Aftermath of the Great War (under contract with Penguin, UK, and FSG, US; expected publication date: 2015). German (Siedler), Dutch (Balans), French (Seuil), Italian (Laterza), Czech (Paseka), Greek (Alexandria) and Spanish (Guttenberg) editions are also under contract. Hitler s Hangman: The Life of Reinhard Heydrich (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011; pb: 2012) O Carrasco De Hitler: A Vida De Reinhard Heydrich (Cultrix: São Paulo, 2013) Portuguese edition of Hitler's Hangman Kat Hitlera: Biografia Reinharda Heydricha (Esprit: Kraków, 2013) Polish edition of Hitler's Hangman Heydrich: El Verdugo de Hitler (La Esfera de los Libros: Madrid, 2013) Spanish edition of Hitler's Hangman Reinhard Heydrich: Hitlerův kat (Paseka: Prague, 2012) Czech edition of Hitler's Hangman Reinhard Heydrich: Biographie (Munich: Siedler, 2011) German edition of Hitler s Hangman Hitlers Beul: Leven en dood van Reinhard Heydrich (Amsterdam: Balans, 2011, pb) Dutch edition of Hitler s Hangman Japanese (Hakusui- sha), Norwegian (Historie & Kultur), and Romanian (Corint Publishing) translations of Hitler s Hangman are currently being prepared for publication in 2014/15. The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, second edition: 2006, paperback: 2007). Books edited: Der Bismarck- Mythos: Die Deutschen und der Eiserne Kanzler (Munich: Siedler, 2007) German edition of The Bismarck Myth Empires at War, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, in print, 2014), with Erez Manela. Chinese (People s Press), Greek (Alexandria), Portuguese (LeYa), Turkish (Iletism), Spanish (Biblioteca Nuevo), and Arabic (All Prints) editions will appear in War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012; pb: 2013) with John Horne 3

4 Sodasta Rauhaan: Väkivallan vuodet Euroopassa (Vastapaino: Helsinki, 2013) Finnish edition of War in Peace Guerra in Pace: Violenza paramilitare dopo la grande guerra (Bruno Mondadori: Milan, 2013) Italian edition of War in Peace Krieg im Frieden. Paramilitärische Gewalt in Europa nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Wallstein: Göttingen, 2013) German edition of War in Peace ВIЙНА без ФРОНТУ: Громадянськi конфлiкти у Схiднiй Европi (Laurus: Kiev, 2014) Ukrainian edition of War in Peace Karas taikos metu: Paramilitarizmas Europoje po Pirmojo pasaulinio karo (Mintis: Vilnius, 2013) Lithuanian edition of War in Peace РАТ У МИРУ: паравојно насиље у Европи после Првог светског рата (Arhipelag: Belgrade, 2013) Serbian edition of War in Peace Russian (Novoe literaturnoe obrozrenie), Bulgarian (KX Critique & Humanism) and Hungarian (L'Harmattan) editions are contracted to appear in Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, paperback: 2011) with Donald Bloxham Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) with Dominik Geppert Twisted Paths: Europe (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, second edition 2007, paperback: 2008). I am also the general editor of the forthcoming twenty- volume monograph series The Greater War, to be published by Oxford University Press during the centenary of the First World War. Special Journal Issues edited: The Limits of Demobilization: Global Perspectives on the Aftermath of the Great War" (= Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, forthcoming, 4/2014) The Great War and the Crisis of Empires (= Special Issue of the Journal of Modern European History, forthcoming, 4/2014) Hero Cults and the Politics of the Past: Comparative European Perspectives (= Special Issue of the European History Quarterly, 3/2009). European Constitutions: Civility and Violent Collapse from the Mid- Eighteenth Century to the Present (= Special Issue of the Journal of Modern European History, 1/2008) with Jose Harris and Holger Nehring Terrorism in Twentieth- Century Europe: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (= Special Issue 4

5 of the European Review of History, 3/2007) with Heinz- Gerhard Haupt Peer- Reviewed Journal Articles: Transnational Approaches to the Post- Great War Crisis of Empire, Journal of Modern European History (forthcoming, 4/2014). The Limits of Demobilization: Global Perspectives on the Aftermath of the Great War", Journal of Contemporary History (forthcoming 4/2014). של ההתקפה לאחר הנאציות ההשמדה הנחיות של והרדיקליזציה היידריך ריינהרד :גורל הרות החלטות" גרווארת רוברט יד,השואה להוראת לאומי -הבין הספר בית,השואה ולימוד לחינוך עת כתב,הזיכרון בשביל,"המועצות ברית על גרמניה גיליון,ושם 12 יולי,(חדשה סדרה) 2012, 'עמ Hebrew article: "Fateful Decisions: Reinhard Heydrich and the radicalization of Nazi extermination policies after the German attack on the Soviet Union", Bishvil Hazikaron (Yad Vashem), 12 (2012) Vectors of Violence: Paramilitarism in Europe after the Great War, , Journal of Modern History 83 (2011), (with John Horne). The Great War and Paramilitarism in Europe, Contemporary European History 19 (2010), (with John Horne). Hannah Arendt s Ghosts: Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz, Central European History 42 (2009), (with Stephan Malinowski). Fathers of the Nation? Bismarck, Garibaldi, and the Construction of Nationhood in Germany and Italy, European History Quarterly 39 (2009), (with Lucy Riall). L antichambre de l Holocauste? À propos du débat sur les violences coloniales et la guerre d extermination nazie, Vingtième Siècle 99 (2008), (with Stephan Malinowski). The Central European Counterrevolution: Paramilitary Violence in Germany, Austria and Hungary after the Great War, Past & Present 200 (2008), Constitutions: Civility and Violent Collapse in European History, in: Journal of Modern European History 6 (2008), with Jose Harris and Holger Nehring The Annaberg as a German- Polish lieu de mémoire, German History 25 (2007), (with James Bjork). Der Holocaust als kolonialer Genozid? Europäische Kolonialgewalt und nationalsozialistischer Vernichtungskrieg, Geschichte & Gesellschaft 33 (2007), (with Stephan Malinowski). Internationalizing Historical Research on Terrorist Movements in Twentieth- Century Europe, European Review of History 14 (2007), (with Heinz- Gerhard Haupt). The Past in Weimar History, Contemporary European History 15 (2006),

6 Book Chapters: Postimperial Reckoning: Paramilitary Violence after the Dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, in: Mark Cornwall (ed.), Rebirth and Sacrifice: Cultural Demobilisation and Memories of the Great War in East- Central Europe (in print, Oxford: Berg, 2014). Axis Ideology in: Richard Bosworth (ed.) Cambridge History of the Second World War (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, in print: 2014). The Continuum of Violence, in Jay Winter (ed.), The Cambridge History of the First World War (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), La guerre après la guerre, in Jay Winter (ed.), French edition of the Cambridge History (Paris: Fayard, 2014), No end to war, in: Hew Strachan (ed.), Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (new, revised and extended edition, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) Cold Empathy: Perpetrator Studies and the Challenges in Writing a Life of Reinhard Heydrich, in: Daniela Baratieri; Mark Edele; Giuseppe Finaldi (eds.), Totalitarian Dictatorship New Histories: Essays in Honor of RJB Bosworth (London: Routledge, 2014), Rechte Gewaltgemeinschaften und die Stadt nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Berlin, Wien und Budapest im Schatten von Kriegsniederlage und Revolution, in: Friedrich Lenger (ed.), Kollektive Gewalt in Europas Großstädten während des ersten Drittels des 20. Jahrhunderts (Munich, 2013), Bolshevism as Fantasy: Fear of Revolution and Counter- Revolutionary Violence, , in: Robert Gerwarth and John Horne (eds.), War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2012). Krieg im Frieden: Der Weisse Terror in den Nachfolgestaaten des Habsburgerreiches, in Klaus Weinhauer and Jörg Requate (eds.), Gewalt ohne Ausweg? Terrorismus als Kommunikationsprozess in Europa seit dem 19. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt: Campus, 2012), Sexual and Nonsexual Violence against Politicized Women after the Great War, in: Elizabeth Heineman (ed.), Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, pb.: 2013), Revolution and Counterrevolution in Twentieth- Century Europe, in: Donald Bloxham and Robert Gerwarth (eds.), Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011) with Martin Conway, Im Schatten des Reichsgründers: Der "Eiserne Kanzler" und die erste deutsche Demokratie, in: Markus Raasch (ed.) Die Deutsche Gesellschaft und der konservative Heroe: Der Bismarckmythos im Wandel der Zeit (Aachen, 2010), Europeanization through Violence? War Experiences and the Making of Modern Europe, in: Martin 6

7 Conway and Kiran Klaus Patel (eds.), Europeanization in the Twentieth Century: Historical Approaches (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Control and Chaos: Paramilitary Violence and the Dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, in: Heinz- Gerhard Haupt and Wilhelm Heitmeyer (eds.), Control of Violence: Historical and International Perspectives on Violence in Modern Societies (New York: Springer, 2010), Revolution and Counter- Revolution, in: Robert Gerwarth and Donald Bloxham (eds.) Political Violence in Twentieth- Century Europe (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 2010) with Martin Conway Introduction in: Robert Gerwarth (ed.), Hero Cults and the Politics of the Past: Comparative European Perspective (Special Issue of the European History Quarterly), Introduction, in: Robert Gerwarth and Dominik Geppert (eds.), Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2008), Introduction, in: Robert Gerwarth (ed.), Twisted Paths: Europe (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2007), Republik und Reichsgründung: Bismarcks kleindeutsche Lösung im Meinungsstreit der ersten deutschen Demokratie, in: Heinrich August Winkler (ed.), Griff nach der Deutungsmacht: Zur Geschichte der Geschichtspolitik in Deutschland (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004), Book Reviews and Newspaper Articles: I have written journalistic articles and book reviews for the following newspapers and journals: Times Literary Supplement, Irish Times, English Historical Review, Canadian International Journal, European History Quarterly, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, German History, H Net, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, History Today, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Welt am Sonntag, DIE ZEIT, Revista de Occidente and LIMES rivista italiana di geopolitica. Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures Over the past five years I have given some forty invited papers and public lectures at the following institutions in Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America, including: In Europe: Zentrum Zeitgeschichtliche Forschung, Potsdam; University of Konstanz; Aberystwyth University, Humboldt University, Berlin; Imperial War Museum, London; Cambridge University; Oxford University, Bielefeld University, NIOD (Amsterdam); Herder Institut, Marburg; Central European University, Budapest; University College London; European University Institute, Florence; University of Valencia; Göttingen University; Trinity College, Dublin, Edinburgh University, International Hellenic University (Thessaloniki); Olympic Academy (Olympia); Vilnius University In the Middle East: Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem; Hebrew University. In the United States: Harvard University, Yale University; Columbia University; Georgetown University; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In Australasia: University of Sydney; Capital Normal University, Beijing; Peking University; University of Kobe (Japan); University of New South Wales (Sydney); University of Western Australia (Perth) South America: University of Buenos Aires; University of Sao Paulo. 7