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Andrew Ian Port | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) Brooklyn, New York |
| Awards | DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies |
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| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Modern European history |
| Institutions | Wayne State University |
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Andrew Ian Port is an American historian and professor of modern European history atWayne State University. He is known for his research on everyday life in theGerman Democratic Republic and on postwar German memory culture. Port is the author of several books, includingConflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic (2007) andNever Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust (2023). He served as editor-in-chief of the journalCentral European History from 2014 to 2019.
Port was born inBrooklyn,New York City in 1967.[1] He earned his undergraduate degree atYale University and completed his doctorate in history atHarvard University. After this, he joined the faculty atWayne State University, where he is a professor of modern European history.
From 2012 to 2014, Port was review editor of theGerman Studies Review. He later served as editor-in-chief ofCentral European History between 2014 and 2019.[2]
His research examines the social and political dynamics of East Germany and the evolution of German responses to genocide after 1945.
Port’s scholarship has been discussed in both academic and mainstream publications.Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic was reviewed as “an important and nuanced study of the East German experience” by historian Mary Fulbrook inGerman History.[3]
The German translation,Die rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR, received attention in the German media, withDeutschlandfunk Kultur noting that Port’s work “neither glorifies nor vilifies the GDR, but presents it in all its contradictions.”[4]
His 2023 bookNever Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust was reviewed inHistory Today, which called it “a major contribution to debates about German memory and responsibility.”[5]
