Mario Kessler

Dr. Mario Kessler is the 2009-2010 Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Visiting Scholar in European Studies. He is the Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary History at Potsdam, Germany, and Associate Professor at the University of Potsdam. He has served in visiting professorships at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Yeshiva University, New York. He also held research positions at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, King’s College, London, the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., and other institutions.

His publications include thirteen monograph books and ten edited books. Among them is On Anti-Semitism and Socialism: Selected Essays (2005, in English). He also wrote biographies of the historian Arthur Rosenberg (2003) and the political scientist Ossip K. Flechtheim (2007) who both came as anti-Nazi refugees to the United States. Most recently he published From Hippocrates to Hitler: On Communism, Fascism, and the Debate on Totalitarianism (2008, in German). He is currently writing a biography of the German-American politician and writer Ruth Fischer (1895-1961), who was during the 1920s chair of the German Communist Party and became later a devout critic of communism.

Dr. Kessler teaches the fall courses “The History of Europe since 1914” and “The History of Modern Anti-Semitism.” During the spring semester, he will teach “The History of the Two Germanies, 1945-1990” and “Labor History since 1848.”

Dr. Mario Kessler

2009-2010 Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Visiting Scholar in European Studies

(Ph.D. 1982 University of Leipzig, Habilitation 1990 Academy of Sciences, Berlin)

Modern and contemporary German and European History, History of Modern Anti-Semitism, Labor History, History of Historiography

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