Peter Fritzsche

PETER FRITZSCHE(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he served as chair of the history department from 2000 to 2005. A social and cultural historian of Modern Europe, Professor Fritzsche has written five books:Stranded in the Present(2004),Germans into Nazis(1998),Reading Berlin 1900(1996),A Nation of Fliers(1992), andRehearsals for Fascism(1990). He is also a former Guggenheim and Humboldt fellow.