John W. Boyer
Areas of Study: Social Sciences Division Social Sciences Collegiate Division Department of History Office of the President Office of the Provost Office: Harper Library 606 Phone: (773)702-7934 Contact: Email
Professor in the Department of History and the College
Biography
| My research and teaching focus on the history of modern Europe, especially on the states, the peoples, and the societies of Central Europe since 1700. My special teaching interests are German history from 1740 to 1918; the history of the Hapsburg Empire between 1648 and 1918, and the history of Austria from 1918 to the present; religion and politics in modern European history; and the history of European universities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
I published a large history of the University of Chicago with the University of Chicago Press, The University of Chicago: A History (2015), and I recently completed the "Austria, 1867 –1983" volume for the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, published by Oxford University Press. |