Charles Steven Maier

Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. From 1991 to mid-2002 he was the Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and served, 1994-2001, as Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Together with Professor Sven Beckert he directs The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. He chaired the SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on Western Europe in the early l980s, served on the German American Academic Advisory Council, 1998-1999, and as chair of the selection committee of the American Academy in Berlin, 1999-2004. He has been awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art (first class) by the Republic of Austria. He received the A.B. degree (1960) summa cum laude and the Ph.D. (1967), both in history, from Harvard University, and he studied at St. Antony's College, Oxford University as a Henry Fellow in 1960-61. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Supervisory Board member of the Luxembourg Institute for International and European Studies. In 2011 Maier received the Helmut Schmidt Prize in German-American Economic History from the Zeit/Bucerius Foundation in Germany. His most recent book, Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood, was published by Harvard University Press in April 2014.