Alan Kramer has worked on the era of the First World War, focusing on the analysis of violence, the relationship between armed forces and non-combatants, war crimes, international law, prisoners of war, economic warfare and blockades, and memory, mainly in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, and Italy. In a synthesis of cultural with military, political, social, and economic history, he places the First World War in a longer-term context reaching to the Second World War. Current projects include a monograph entitled Concentration Camps: A Global History; co-editor of 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of World War I (with O. Janz, Berlin, five other general editors, and partners in fifty countries). He is a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and winner of the Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, 2015-16.

My undergraduate teaching ranges through the history of continental Europe since 1870. At level 2 (Senior Freshman) I teach ‘Cataclysm and Renewal: History of Continental Europe 1918 to the Present’, and the Group Projects on ‘War and Imperialism’. My sophister special subjects (levels 3 and 4) are List I: ‘Germany from Revolution to Dictatorship, 1918 to 1939’; List II: ‘The First World War in Germany and Italy’. I contribute to the level 1 (Junior Freshman) course ‘Interpreting History’, and to the M. Phil. in Public History. I have supervised several PhD theses on Europe in the era of the First World War, and I am currently supervising theses on both world wars. I welcome graduate students interested in working on any of the above research fields.