Christoph M. Kimmich
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Christoph M. Kimmich is the President of Brooklyn College. He was educated at Haverford College (BA 1961) and Oxford University (PhD. 1964) and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was trained as a historian of modern Europe.
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Kimmich came to Brooklyn College in 1973 after eight years of teaching at Columbia University. He is a member of the faculty of the Department of History as well as the CUNY Graduate Center. He served as Chairman of the Department of History from 1980 to 1984, when he was appointed Associate Provost. He became Acting Provost in 1988 and Provost the following year. He was appointed Interim Chancellor of the City University of New York in November 1997 and served until September 1999. He was appointed President of Brooklyn College, effective February 2000.
Kimmich has written several books on German foreign policy in the period between World War I and World War II, as well as articles on this subject and on other subjects in German history. He has lectured here and abroad.
Kimmich has been awarded, among others, a Fulbright Scholarship, an International Affairs Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He spent the academic year 1974-75 at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and the academic year 1983-84 as a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
