Margaret L. Anderson

Professor Emerita
Margaret Lavinia Anderson
Born (1941-10-18) October 18, 1941
Washington, D.C., United States
Education
Occupation Scholar
Employer
Known for Research on Germany between 1850-1925, history of Catholicism 1830-1918, history of elections, political parties, and parliaments, history of Germans in the Ottoman Empire
Spouse(s) Mr. Raff
James J. Sheehan, m. 1989
Children Sarah Elizabeth Raff
Parent(s) David & Margaret Lavinia Anderson
Website history.berkeley.edu/people/margaret-lavinia-anderson
Notes

Margaret Lavinia Anderson is professor emerita at University of California Berkeley where she teaches about Europe since 1453; Central Europe from the late 18th century, especially modern Germany; World War I; Fascist Europe.[3] She won a 2001 Berlin prize by the American Academy in Berlin, and was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.[4] She was a fellow at Stanford Humanities Center.[5]

Life

Her research is about political culture, including electoral politics, in Imperial Germany and in comparative European perspective; the intersection of religion and politics; religion and society–especially Catholicism in the 19th century. She is now working on the relations (on the level of governments as well as civil society) between Germany and the Ottoman Empire from the time of the massacres of the Armenians in 1894-1896 to c. 1933. She was on the Academic Advisory Council of the German Historical Institute.

She completed her Ph.D. at Brown University and her B.A. at Swarthmore College.

She is married to James J. Sheehan, a historian at Stanford University.

Bibliography

References

  1. "Margaret Lavinia Anderson". Directory of American Scholars (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Gale. 2002. GALE|K1612522937. Retrieved 2012-04-08. Gale Biography In Context. (subscription required)
  2. "Margaret Lavinia Anderson". findagrave. Retrieved 2012-04-09. Margaret Lavinia Anderson (Sep. 19, 1914 - Dec. 8, 1985), David Anderson (May 17, 1914 - August 31, 2001)
  3. http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Anderson/
  4. http://www.gf.org/fellows/334-margaret-lavinia-anderson
  5. http://shc.stanford.edu/people/directory/margaret-lavinia-anderson

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