Kiran Klaus Patel

Kiran Klaus Patel (born 3 October 1971) is a German-British historian. He holds a Chair at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1]

Education and career

Patel studied history at the University of Freiburg and at Humboldt University of Berlin.

He is currently a professor and chair at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, after having held chairs at Maastricht University (2011-2019) and at the European University Institute in Florence. Moreover, He spent the academic year 2014-15 as visiting professor at the London School of Economics. His book, The New Deal: A Global History, won the WHA Bentley Book Prize, awarded by the World History Association.[2] In 2018, Patel published a history of the European Union that attracted a lot of media attention in Germany. In 2019 Patel became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

Other activities
  • Willy Brandt Foundation, Member of the International Advisory Board[4]
  • Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Member of the Advisory Board
  • Contemporary European History, Member of the Editorial Board
  • Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Member of the Editorial Board
  • Monde(s). Histoire - Espaces- relations, Member of the Editorial Board

Selected publications

His books include:

  • Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
  • Fertile ground for Europe? The history of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945 (Baden Baden: Nomos, 2009).
  • The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence (with Christof Mauch) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • The Cultural Politics of Europe: European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s (London: Routledge, 2013).
  • European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
  • Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law (with Heike Schweitzer) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
  • The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
  • Projekt Europa: Eine kritische Geschichte (Munich: Beck, 2018).

References
  1. Kiran Patel awarded EU funding as Jean Monnet Chair, Maastricht University, retrieved 2017-06-01.
  2. WHA Website http://www.thewha.org/wha-awards/wha-bentley-book-prize/. Retrieved 28 August 2017. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Kiran Patel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020.
  4. International Advisory Board Willy Brandt Foundation.
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