Margaret Lavinia Anderson is professor emerita atUniversity of California Berkeley where she teaches aboutEurope since 1453;Central Europe from the late 18th century, especially modernGermany;World War I;Fascist Europe.^[2] She won a 2001Berlin prize by theAmerican Academy in Berlin, and was a 2008Guggenheim Fellow.^[3] She was a fellow atStanford Humanities Center.^[4]

Her research is about political culture, including electoral politics, inImperial Germany and in comparative European perspective; the intersection ofreligion andpolitics; religion and society–especiallyCatholicism in the 19th century. She is now working on the relations (on the level of governments as well as civil society) between Germany and theOttoman Empire from the time of theHamidian massacres of theOttoman Armenians in 1894-1896 to c. 1933. She was on the Academic Advisory Council of theGerman Historical Institute.

She completed her Ph.D. atBrown University and her B.A. atSwarthmore College.

She is married toJames J. Sheehan, a historian atStanford University.

• Windthorst: A Political Biography.Oxford University Press, 1981,ISBN 978-0-19-822578-2
• Windthorst: Zentrumspolitiker und Gegenspieler Bismarcks. Droste, 1988,ISBN 978-3-7700-0774-5
• Anderson, Margaret Lavinia (2000).Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-04854-3. Retrieved2012-04-08.
• Review article "Piety and Politics: Recent Work on German Catholicism,"The Journal of Modern History Vol. 63, No. 4, December 1991
• Anderson, Margaret Lavinia (1992)."History in the Comic Mode: Jonathan Sperber's 1848".Central European History.25 (3):333–342.doi:10.1017/S0008938900022147.S2CID 144729906. Retrieved2012-04-08.
• "Voter, Junker, Landrat, Priest: The Old Authorities and the new Franchise in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914,"American Historical Review, Volume 98, Issue 5 (December 1993): pages 1448-1474
• "The Limits of Secularization: On the Problem of the Catholic Revival in 19th Century Germany,"Historical Journal, 38, 3 (95): 647-670
• "Clerical Election Influence and Communal Solidarity: Catholic Political Culture in the German Empire, 1871-1914," Elections before Democracy. Essays on the Electoral History of Latin America and Europe, Macmillan (NY, New York and London, Eng), 96
• "'Down in Turkey, far away': Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany,"The Journal of Modern History Vol. 79, No. 1, March 2007
• "The Divisions of the Pope: The Catholic Revival and Europe's Transition to Democracy," Rivals and Revivals: Religion and politics in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America and Europe, forthcoming.

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