The Faculty
Professor Richard J Evans
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Regius Professor of History
President of Wolfson College
Wolfson College
Cambridge CB3 9BB
Cambridge CB3 9BB
Email:
rje36@cam.ac.uk
Office Phone:
01223 3 35938
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Research Supervision
Richard Evans has supervised research in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and comparative history while holding Chairs at the Universities of East Anglia and London, as well as more recently in Cambridge. Successful Ph.D. candidates have worked on the social and demographic history of an industrial village in nineteenth-century Germany; working-class culture in the Ruhr before 1914; criminology, antisemitism and the press in Vienna at the turn of the century; medievalism in British and German war memorials after 1918; the cult of the 'Hanseat' in public memory in Hamburg and Lübeck in the Imperial and Weimar periods; the political press in the Weimar Republic; tourism in Nazi Germany; state prisons in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich; suicide in the Third Reich; state prisons in the Third Reich; rituals of navalism in England and Germany before 1914; and women and national identity in Alsace-Lorraine under German and French rule, 1870-1945. Ph.D. theses in progress cover topics including the concept of 'heritage' in nineteenth-century Britain, France and Germany; suicide in the Third Reich; clandestine relations between the East and West Geman governments in the 1950s and 1960s; and re-education and the remaking of German national identity in the British and French zones of occupation after 1945. Richard Evans also supervises a wide range of M.Phil. dissertations in similar areas of modern German and comparative history.Teaching
Richard J Evans lectures on Papers 17 and 18 in Part I, and teaches the Core Course 'Controversies in Modern European History' and an Option on Britain and Germany since the 18th century for the MPhil in Modern European History. He supervises about 10 PhD students and runs a weekly graduate workshop.Key Publications
- The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933 (London, 1976)
- (Editor) Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (London, 1978)
- Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 (Oxford, 1987)
- Rethinking German History (London, 1987)
- Kneipengespräche im Kaiserreich (Reinbek, 1988)
- In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (New York, 1989)
- Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1700-1987 (Oxford, 1996)
- Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1998)
- In Defence of History (2nd edn. with Reply to Critics, London, 2001, first pub. 1997)
- Telling Lies About Hitler: History, the Holocaust and the David Irving Trial (London, 2002)
- The Coming of the Third Reich (London, 2003)