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Andrew Ian Port | |
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| Awards | Recipient of the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies |
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| Discipline | Historian |
| Institutions | Wayne State University |
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Andrew Ian Port is an American historian and professor at Wayne State University.
Career
[edit]Port earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University and completed his dissertation at Harvard University. He is currently a member of the faculty at Wayne State University. Port was review editor of the German Studies Review from 2012 to 2014, and editor-in-chief of Central European History from 2014 to 2019.[1]
His first book, Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic, came out in 2007. The German translation, Die Rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR, garnered praise and inspired controversy among the general German populace.[2][3]
In 2023, Port's book, Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust, deepened examinations of German memory culture by studying German reactions to genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia.[4] The book's release coincided with a greater push among historians to reexamine Germany's Vergangenheitsbewältigung, culminating in the Catechism Debate, to which Port also contributed.[5]
Selected works
[edit]- Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic (2007)
- Die rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR (2010)
- Becoming East German (2013)
- Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust (2023)
- Germany (2025)
References
[edit]- ^ "Andrew I. Port and Julia Torrie – An Appreciation of Editorial Leadership". Central European History. 52 (3): 381. September 25, 2019. doi:10.1017/S0008938919000797.
- ^ Stolzmann, Uwe (November 10, 2010). "Nichts geschönt, nichts verteufelt". Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved August 12, 2025.
- ^ Huhn, Klaus; Frischbier, Peter (November 21, 2011). Was ein Yankee über Saalfeld/DDR weiß. Das Neue Berlin. ISBN 978-3360020567.
- ^ Hale, Christopher (June 6, 2023). "Never Again by Andrew I. Port review". History Today. 73 (6). Retrieved August 13, 2025.
- ^ Moses, Dirk. "The German Reason of State as State Anti-Semitism". American German Institute. John Hopkins University. Retrieved August 12, 2025.