Professor Robert Gerwarth, UCD School of History & Archives.
Professor Gerwarth’s research is focussed on the history of German and Central European political culture in the period between 1871 and 1945. He is particularly interested in the history of memory and the history of violence in Germany and Europe.
In 2009 Professor Gerwarth was awarded a European Research Council grant of between €1.2m and €1.5m for a ground-breaking 4-year project on the transnational history of failed demobilisation and paramilitary violence from Ireland through Europe and across the wider world after the Russian revolution and the end of the Great War.
The grant will boost research activity at Professor Gerwarth’s Centre for War Studies at UCD and intensify collaboration with national and international partner institutions. This is the first time that such an award has been made to a humanities scholar in Ireland. It is also the largest EU research grant ever made for a humanities project in Ireland.
Professor Gerwarth is the author of The Bismarck Myth (Oxford University Press, 2006) and editor of Twisted Paths: Europe 1914-1945 (OUP, 2007) Terrorism in Twentieth-Century Europe (OUP, 2007), European Constititutions: Civility and Violent Collapse (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2008), Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain (OUP, 2008) and Hero Cults in Modern Europe (London, 2009). He is currently working on a history of paramilitary violence after the Great War and a biography of Reinhard Heydrich.
