Prof. Dr. Alan R. Kramer

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOther Areas of History,Modern and Contemporary History
Keywords1900-1960, Globalgeschichte der Blockaden, Globalgeschichte der Lager, Weltkriege, Geschichte & Theorie der Gewalt
Honours and awards

2025: Seniorprofessor für Geschichte, Universität Hamburg

2015: Forschungspreis der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityHamburg
InstitutionUniversität Hamburg
InstituteFachbereich Geschichte

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang J. MommsenLehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Angelika SchaserFachbereich Geschichte, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/1991

Programme(s)

1991Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2015Humboldt Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2025Alan Kramer: Concentration Camps: A Global History. kein Herausgeber, 2025
2020Alan Kramer, Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell et al. Naval Blockade (of Germany). In: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, 2020,
2019Alan Kramer, Miguel Alonso, Javier Rodrigo: Fascist Warfare: Aggression, Occupation, Annihilation (1922-1945). Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
2019Alan Kramer: The Sharp End. Witnessing, Perpetrating, and Suffering Violence in 20 th Century Wars. In: Catriona Pennell, Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, A World At War, 1911-1949. Explorations in the Cultural History of War. Brill, 2019. 83-107
2018Alan Kramer: Deutsche Kriegsgreuel 1914: Die umstrittene Wahrheit. Hamburger Edition, 2018
2018Alan Kramer: Introduction: The World of Camps. A Protean Institution in War and Peace. In: Gregor Feindt, Anke Hilbrenner, Dittmar Dahlmann, Sport under Unexpected Circumstances: Violence, Discipline, and Leisure in Penal and Internment Camps. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. 23-40
2007Alan R. Kramer: Dynamic of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. Oxford University Press, 2007
2006Alan R. Kramer: War crimes. In: John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds., Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Charles Scribner¿s Sons, 2006. 2671-2681
2001Alan R. Kramer, John Horne: German Atrocities, 1914 - A History of Denial. Yale University Press, 2001
2001Alan R. Kramer: Versailles, deutsche Kriegsverbrechen und das Auslieferungsbegehren der Alliierten 1919/20. In: Wolfram Wette, Gerd R. Ueberschär, Kriegsverbrechen im 20. Jahrhundert. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001. 72-84
2000Alan R. Kramer, John Horne: War between Soldiers and Enemy Civilians 1914 - 1915. In: Roger Chickering, Stig Förster, Great War, Total War Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914 - 1918. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 153-168