Charles S. Maier
Born	(1939-02-23)February 23, 1939 (age 86) New York City,New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University
Scientific career
Institutions	Harvard University

Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939) is theLeverett Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of History atHarvard University. He teachesEuropean andinternational history at Harvard.

Maier served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, 1994-2001, and currently co-directs (with Sven Beckert) the Weatherhead Research Cluster in Global History. He taught at Duke University 1976-81 and has also held various visiting professorships in Europe. He was married from 1961 to 2013 to the latePauline Maier (née Rubbelke), Professor at MIT and noted American historian. In 2017 he married Marjorie Anne Sa'adah, professor emerita of government at Dartmouth College. He has three children and eight grandchildren.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt research prize fellowship, the Cross of Honor of the German Federal Republic, and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class, of the Republic of Austria. The University of Padua awarded him a laurea honoris causa in European Studies in January 2018. Prizes include the Premio Nazionale Cherasco Storia alla Carrera (2019); the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction (2018); the Helmut Schmitt Prize for German-American American Economic History conferred by the German Historical Institute, Washington, and theZeit and Bucerius Foundations in 2011; the American Historical Association'sGeorge Louis Beer Prize in 1978 and its Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 1977, both forRecasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I^[1]

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• Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1975. Reprinted with new prefaces, 1988 and 2015.
• In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
• The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988)
• Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)
• Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)
• Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014; also inWorlds Connected, Emily Rosenberg, ed. Harvard University Press, 2012)
• Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)
• The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023)

• "Between Taylorism and technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s".Journal of contemporary history 5#2 (1970): 27-61.JSTOR 259743.
• "The politics of productivity: foundations of American international economic policy after World War II".International Organization 31#4 (1977): 607-633.JSTOR 2706316.
• "Marking time: the historiography of international relations". inThe Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (1980): 355-87.
• Maier, Charles S. (1981)."The two postwar eras and the conditions for stability in twentieth-century Western Europe"(PDF).American Historical Review:327–352. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on October 6, 2022 – via DASH - Harvard University.
• Maier, Charles S. (June 2000)."Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era"(PDF).American Historical Review.105 (3):807–831.doi:10.2307/2651811.
• “The Cold War and the World Economy", inThe Cambridge History of the Cold War, Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds. (3 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 ), I, 44-66.
• "History lived and history written : Germany and the United States, 1945/55-2015"(PDF).Bulletin of the German Historical Institute.57 (Fall):7–23. 2015. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on June 2, 2016.
• “In Merkel’s Crisis, Echoes of Weimar",NYR Daily: New York Review of Books, 12/4/2017.
• "H-Diplo Memories" (H-Diplo "Essay Series on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars" 16 October 2020)online autobiography

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