Kiran Klaus Patel
Kiran Klaus Patel is a German historian. He holds a Chair at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Education and career
Patel studied history at the University of Freiburg and at Humboldt University of Berlin.Since 2019, he has been teaching in Munich. He holds the Chair of Modern History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is also founding director of Project House Europe at LMU Munich, which promotes interdisciplinary research on the history of Europe. From 2011 to 2019 he held the Chair of European and Global History at Maastricht University following a professorship at the European University Institute in Florence from 2007 to 2011. He was visiting professor at the London School of Economics and at Sciences Po Paris. As John F. Kennedy Fellow he spent a year at Harvard University. Furthermore, he was awarded fellowships at the University of Oxford and the University of Freiburg.
His book, The New Deal: A Global History, which situates the role of the US during the 1930s and 1940s in a comparative and transnational context. The American Historical Review praised it, arguing that "Patel's story will become the definitive account“ and the monograph won the WHA Bentley Book Prize, awarded by the World History Association. Patel's Project Europe: A History challenged the narrative that the European Union was a successful force for peace from its inception. Project Europe has attracted a lot of media attention in Germany and internationally.
Patel is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Arts and Science, the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz and the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Selected professional functions
- Willy Brandt Foundation, Member of the International Advisory Board
- Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Chair of the Advisory Board
- Contemporary European History, Member of the Editorial Board
- Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Member of the Editorial Board
- Monde. Histoire - Espaces - Relations, Member of the Editorial Board
Selected publications
Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945.- Fertile ground for Europe? The history of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945.
- The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence The Cultural Politics of Europe: European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s .European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s .
- Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law .
- The New Deal: A Global History .
- Project Europe: A History. First published as Projekt Europa: Eine kritische Geschichte.