John W. Boyer
Distinguished Service Professor
Department Of History
The University of Chicago
United States of America
Biography
My research and teaching focus on the history of modern Europe, especially on the states, the peoples, and the societies of Central Europe since 1700. My special teaching interests are German history from 1740 to 1918; the history of the Hapsburg Empire between 1648 and 1918, and the history of Austria from 1918 to the present; religion and politics in modern European history; and the history of European universities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I recently published a large history of the University of Chicago with the University of Chicago Press, The University of Chicago: A History (2015), and I am presently completing the "Austria, 1867–1983" volume for the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, published by Oxford University Press. With Jan E. Goldstein, I am also coeditor of The Journal of Modern History.
Research Interest
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European political and cultural history, particularly in Germany and the Habsburg Empire; religion and politics in modern European history; the history of the universities.
Publications
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Coeditor (with Jan E. Goldstein). Twentieth-Century Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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Coeditor (with Jan E. Goldstein). Nineteenth-Century Europe: Liberalism and Its Critics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna: Origins of the Christian Social Movement, 1848–1897. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
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Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897–1918. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
