# Charles Maier Research Professor of History, Harvard University; WCFIA Faculty Associate ![charles.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8361/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/globalhistory/files/charles.jpg?itok=P2q7b4Na) location\_on Center for European Studies Room 121 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617.495.4303 x273 ]() email laptop\_windows [Website](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/charles-maier) Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard and served as director of CES from 1994-2001 and in the fall of 2006. Maier will teach Historical Studies B-53 (World War I), Ethical Reasoning 12 (Political Trials and Political Justice) in fall 2009, and, with Niall Ferguson, History 1965 (International History: States and Markets) and History 1920 (Global History of Modern Times) in spring 2010. Maier is most recently the author of *Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors* (2006). Earlier books include Dissolution: *The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany* (1997), *The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity* (1988), *In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy* (1987) and *Recasting Bourgeois Europe* (1975, 1988). He has also edited several collaborative volumes on the politics of inflation, the Marshall Plan and other themes. Currently, Maier is contributing "Leviathan Renewed: The Long Century of Modern Statehood" to the general world history being edited by Akira Iriye and Juergen Osterhammel and, with William Kirby and Sugata Bose, is completing a global history of the twentieth century. He continues work on a history of modern territoriality. - ## Subject [Statehood](/filter_by/statehood) - ## Region/Country [United States](/filter_by/united-states) - ## People [Administration](/filter_by/administration) - ## Era/Date [20th Century](/filter_by/20th-century)