Andrew Port

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Andrew Port
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Born	July 13, 1967 Brooklyn, New York
🎓 Alma mater	Yale University
💼 Occupation
👩 Spouse(s)	Sylvia Taschka
👶 Children	Hannah Port, Rebekka Port

Andrew Ian Port (born July 13, 1967, in Brooklyn, New York) is professor of history at Wayne State University and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Central European History. He is the award-winning author of Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic, which appeared in German translation as Die rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR. His book, Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, will appear with Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023.

Career

Port earned his BA at Yale University, where he studied history and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1989. In 2000, he received his PhD at Harvard University, where he focused on Modern European History. From 1993 to 2001, Port was a teaching fellow and tutor in the Harvard History Department and lecturer in its Social Studies Department. He also taught as a lecturer in the History Department at Yale University in 2001 and returned to that position in 2002-2003, after having served as a project coordinator at the Office of Human Rights in Nuremberg, Germany in 2002. Port currently works at Wayne State University, where he has taught since 2003. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Central European History from 2014 to 2019.

Port has received a number of notable fellowships. In 2016, he was awarded the Marie Curie FCFP Senior Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). Two years later, he taught at Nottingham Trent University in the UK as a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor. Earlier in his career, he was given the Chancellor Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1995-1996) and a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-1998). In 2013, Port won the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies, which was awarded to him by the American Intitute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at the John Hopkins University.

Works

Books

• Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2007) (paperback, 2008)
  • German Translation: Die rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR. Arbeit und Alltag im sozialistischen Deutschland (Ch. Links Verlag, 2010) (2nd ed., 2010) and Die rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR. Arbeit und Alltag im sozialistischen Deutschland (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2011) (2nd ed., 2012)
• Never Again: Germans and Genocide since the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2023)
• Germany (Polity Press, forthcoming 2023)

Edited Volumes

• Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler (Berghahn Books, 2013) (co-edited with Mary Fulbrook)
• Central European History, vols. 47-52 (Sept. 2014-June 2019)

Articles, Chapters, Essays

• “When Workers Rumbled: The Wismut Upheaval of August 1951 in East Germany,” in Social History 22, no. 2 (1997): 145-173.
• “The ‘Grumble Gesellschaft’: Industrial Defiance and Worker Protest in Early East Germany,” in Arbeiter in der SBZ/DDR, ed. Klaus Tenfelde and Peter Hübner (Klartext Verlag, 1999), 787-810.
• “Ringen um die Macht: Konflikte an der Basis der frühen DDR. Die Zeiss-Fertigungs-stätte Saalfeld in den fünfziger Jahren,” in Macht und Milieu. Jena zwischen Kriegsende und Mauerbau, ed. Rüdiger Stutz (Hain Verlag, 2000), 307-326.
• “Der erste Arbeiteraufstand in der DDR,” in Deutschland Archiv 4 (2007): 605-613.
• “Democracy and Dictatorship in the Cold War: The Two Germanies, 1949-1961,” in The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, ed. Helmut W. Smith (Oxford University Press, 2011), 619-643.
• “Love, Lust, and Lies under Communism: Family Values and Adulterous Liaisons in the German Democratic Republic,” Central European History 44, no. 3 (2011): 478-505.
• “A Cold-War Cudgel? The West German Print Media and the Cambodian Genocide,” in ZeitRäume. Potsdamer Almanach des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung 2010, ed. Martin Sabrow (Wallstein Verlag, 2011), 147-159.
• “The Dark Side of Eigensinn: East German Workers and Destructive Shopfloor Practices,” in Falling Behind or Catching Up? The East German Economy, 1945-2010, ed. Hartmut Berghoff and Uta Balbier (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 112-128.
• “‘To Deploy or Not to Deploy’: The Erratic Evolution of German Foreign Policy since Unification,” in United Germany: Debating Processes and Prospects, ed. Konrad Jarausch (Berghahn Books, 2013), 267-277.
• “Predispositions and the Paradox of Working-Class Behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic,” in Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler, ed. Mary Fulbrook and Andrew I. Port (Berghahn Books, 2013), 201-218.
• “Introduction: The Banalities of East German Historiography,” in Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler, ed. Mary Fulbrook and Andrew I. Port (Berghahn Books, 2013), 1-30.
• “‘There Will Be Blood”: The Violent Underside of the ‘Peaceful’ East German Revolution of 1989,” in Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte: Politische Gewalt in Deutschland. Ursprünge–Ausprängungen–Konsequenzen, ed. José Brunner, Doron Avraham, and Marianne Zepp (Wallstein Verlag, 2014), 217-235.
• “Triumphalist History and Totalitarian Theory,” RARITAN 33, no. 4 (2014): 141-156.
• “History from Below, the History of Everyday Life, and Microhistory,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., vol. 11, ed. James D. Wright (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015), 108-113.
• “Central European History since 1989: Historiographical Trends and Other Post-Wende 'Turns,’” Central European History 48, no. 2 (2015): 238-248.
• “Courting China, Condemning China: East and West German Cold War Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Cambodian Genocide,” German History 33, no. 4 (2015): 588-608.
• “All We are Saying Is Give GDR History a Chance!” in Die DDR als Chance. Neue Perspektive auf ein altes Thema, ed. Ulrich Mählert (Metropol, 2016), 165-171.
• “Rethinking Regime Stability: The Life Stories of ‘Loyal’ East German Activists in the Early German Democratic Republic,” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Ostdeutsche Unternehmen im Transformationsprozess (1935-1995) 58, no. 2 (2017): 367-412.
• “Awkward Encounters: East German Relations with the Third-World ‘Other,’“ German History 35, no. 4 (2017): 630-637.
• Introduction and commentary, “Holocaust Scholarship and Politics in the Public Sphere: Reexamining the Causes, Consequences, and Controversy of the Historikerstreit and the Goldhagen Debate. A Forum,” Central European History 50, no. 3 (2017): 375-403.
• “In Memory of the ‘Two Helmuts’: The Lives, Legacies, and Historical Impact of Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl: A Forum,” Central European History 51, no. 2 (2018): 282-283.
• “Wschodnioniemieccy robotnicy I ‘ciemna strona’ samo-woli: Podziały społeczne wzakładach przemysłowych a porażka rewolucji z 17 czerwca 1953 roku,” in Eigen-Sinn: Życie codzienne, podmiotowość I sprawowanie władzy w XX wieku, ed. Thomas Lindenberger and Alf Lüdtke, trans. Antoni Górny et al. (Wydawnictwo Nauka I Innowacje, 2018), 599-622.
• “Embracing Democracy: The Storming of the US Capitol and the Mixed Lessons of Weimar Germany,” Public Seminar, January 2021.
• “The Wrath of Moses, or The Shadow Side of German Memory Culture,” New Fascism Syllabus (“Catechism Debate”), June 2021.

Translations

• Peter Bender, “America: The New Roman Empire?” in Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs 47, no. 1 (2003): 145-159 (from German) [Reprinted as “The New Rome,” in The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire, ed. Andrew J. Bacevich (Ivan R. Dee, 2003), 81-92]
• “We want to be free men! The East German People’s Uprising of 17 June 1953,” travelling contemporary history exhibition, Bundestiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Oct. 2012 (from German).
• “Youth Opposition in the German Democratic Republic,” travelling contemporary history exhibition, Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft and Bundestiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, July 2013 (from German).
• “Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extreme,” travelling contemporary history exhibition, Institut für Zeitgeschichte and Bundestiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Sept. 2013 (from German).
• “The Post-Soviet Experience: Society and Everyday Life after Communism,” travelling contemporary history exhibition, Bundestiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, July 2021 (from German).

Miscellaneous

• “‘Deklassierte Elemente’: Wie Arbeiter in Thüringen schon 1951 den Aufstand probten,” in “Die Gegenwart,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (June 17, 2002).
• “Revolution and Reciprocity: Transatlantic Relations during the Baroque Era,” in The Glory of Baroque Dresden (Hirmer Verlag, 2004), 15-16.
• “American Perceptions of Europe: A Curious Ambivalence,” in Kulturreport. Fortschritt Europa, ed. Institut für Auslands-beziehungen and Robert-Bosch-Stiftung (ifa, 2007), 35-37 (also appeared in French, German, and Polish translation).
• “Deutsche Gesellschaft und Mentalität im Wandel?” in Historische Erinnerung im Wandel. Neuere Forschungen zur deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte, ed. Heiner Timmermann (LIT Verlag, 2007), 92-97.
• “Der erste Arbeiteraufstand der DDR,” Blätter zur Landeskunde, ed. Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen (Sömmerda, 2008).
• “Ein verständiger Patriot. Zum Tod von Peter Bender (1923-2008),” in Deutschland Archiv 6 (2008): 969-971.
• “Das Land der verpassten Geschichte(n), or Wie es eigentlich gewesen wäre,” H-German (June 2009).
• “Why Not Leave History to the Historians: The Problematic Popularization and Politicization of Modern Germany,” H-German (May 2011).
• Preface to Adele Valeria Messina, American Sociology and Holocaust Studies: The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay (Academic Studies Press, 2017), xiii-xiv.

Full List of Awards and Fellowships

• Max Weber Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1991-1993)
• Krupp Foundation Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1994-1995)
• Chancellor Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1995-1996)
• Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (1997)
• Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-1998)
• Visiting Scholar, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam (2000)
• Finalist, Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, German Historical Institute (2001)
• Research Associate, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005-2018)
• Summer Research Grant, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006, 2013)
• Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University (2008)
• Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University (2008)
• Leibniz Fellowship, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam (2010)
• Career Development Chair, Wayne State University (2010-2011)
• President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Wayne State University (2012)
• Non-Resident Fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (2013-pres.)
• DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies (2013)
• Marie Curie Senior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) (2016)
• Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, Nottingham Trent University (2018)
• Wayne State University Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (2018-2020)

Personal Life

Port went to high school at Poly Prep, attended Yale University as an undergraduate and Harvard University as a graduate student. Port now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife, historian and novelist Sylvia Taschka, and his two daughters, Rebekka and Hannah.

External Links

• Port, Andrew. “Wayne State University.” Andrew I. Port - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Wayne State University, Wayne State University, 2018, Andrew I. Port - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Wayne State University.
• Port, Andrew Ian. “Andrew Port: Wayne State University.” Academia.edu, Academia, 2016, Andrew Port | Wayne State University - Academia.edu.

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