Prof. Andrew Ian Port

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsModern and Contemporary History,Other Areas of History
KeywordsEgo documents, Regime change, Diaries
Honours and awards

2025: Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies Shortlist

2018: Leverhulme Trust, Visiting Professor, Nottingham Trent University (UK)

2016: Marie Curie Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS)

2013: DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies

1997: Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityDetroit
InstitutionWayne State University
InstituteDepartment of History

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Lutz NiethammerPhilosophische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena
Prof. Dr. Konrad JarauschLeibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF), Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Thomas MergelLehrstuhl für Europäische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/1995

Programme(s)

1993German Chancellor Fellowship Programme for prospective leaders from the United States

Publications (partial selection)

2025Andrew I. Port: Germany. Polity Books, 2025
2023Andrew I. Port: Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023
2013Andrew I. Port and Mary Fulbrook: Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler. Berghahn Books, 2013
2007Andrew I. Port: Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic. Cambridge University Press, 2007
2007Andrew Ian Port: Die rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR. Ch. Links Verlag, 2007