Roger Chickering

Roger Chickering is an American historian of the German Empire and World War I. He was a professor at Georgetown University, retiring in 2010.

Roger Chickering
Occupation	Historian, author
Notable works	The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918
Website
www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/chickerr/

Education

Chickering received his doctorate in 1968 at Stanford University, where he studied with Gordon A. Craig. Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914, published in 1975, was based on his dissertation.

Career

• Professor of history, BMW Center for German and European Studies (Joint Appointment in the Department of History), Georgetown University, 1993-2010
• Research fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008-2009
• Research fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
• Research fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1996–97
• Professor of history, University of Oregon, 1981–94
• Visiting research fellow, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Freiburg i. Br., 1991–92
• Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, Spring Semester 1991
• Visiting research fellow, Institut für neuere Geschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1984–85
• Visiting research fellow, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, Free University of Berlin, 1976–77
• Associate professor of history, University of Oregon, 1974–81
• Assistant professor of history, University of Oregon, 1968–74
• Instructor of history, Stanford University, 1967–68

Chickering retired from Georgetown University in 2010. While he began his career as a historian focusing on the German Empire, his interests increasingly migrated to the First World War. During his career, he published multiple monographs, edited volumes, and articles.^[1]

Selected publications

• The German Empire, 1871–1918. Cambridge UP, 2025.
• War in an age of revolution, 1775-1815. German Historical Institute. 2010. OCLC 429025603.
• Freiburg im Ersten Weltkrieg: Totaler Krieg und städtischer Alltag 1914-1918. Schoeningh Verlag, 2009.
• The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918. Cambridge UP, 2007.
• A world at total war: global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937-1945. German Historical Institute. 2005. OCLC 54852979.
• Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. 2d ed. Cambridge UP, 2004
• Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life (1856–1915). New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993.
• Karl Lamprecht. Leben eines deutschen Historikers 1856-1915] Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.
• We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1984.
• Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1975.
• "The Reichsbanner and the Weimar Republic, 1924-26," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 40, No. 4, December 1968.