Stefan Heinrich Berger (1964 Langenfeld, Rhineland, Germany[1]) is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, UK. He specializes in nationalism and national identity studies, labour studies and historiography.
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In period 1985—1987 Berger attended the University of Cologne, where he studied history, political science and German literature and learnt Italian.[2] He was a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Plymouth in period 1990—1991, and the lecturer in Modern European History at the School of European Studies, University of Wales in Cardiff in period 1991—2000.[2]
A significant part of Berger's research and works is the increasing nationalization of history in the course of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.[3] Berger is director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Manchester.[4] He participated in the programme ‘Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST)’ that the European Science Foundation organized between 2003 and 2008.