Institutions Harvard University Spouse Pauline Maier Role Professor | Name Charles Maier Alma mater Harvard University | |
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Born February 23, 1939
New York City, New York, USA ( 1939-02-23 ) Education Harvard University (1961–1967) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction) Books Among empires, Recasting bourgeois Europe, The Unmasterable Past, Dissolution: The Crisis of Comm, Changing Boundaries of the Poli Similar People Pauline Maier, Jytte Klausen, Stanley Hoffmann, Sven Beckert, Charles L Mee | ||
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Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939, in New York City) is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Maier served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, 1994-2001, and currently co-directs (with Sven Beckert) the Weatherhead Initiative in Global History. He taught at Duke University 1976-81 and has also held various visiting professorships in Europe. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt research prize fellowship, the Cross of Honor of the German Federal Republic, and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class, of the Republic of Austria. He was married from 1961 to 2013 to the late Pauline Maier, Professor at MIT and noted American historian. He has three children and seven grandchildren.