Charles S. Maier

Distinguished Scholar

Professional Affiliation

Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University

Expert Bio

Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University.  He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960 and 1967 respectively, with an interim year of study at St. Antony's College, Oxford.  Among his books are Recasting Bourgeois Europe (1975), The Unmasterable Past:  History, Holocaust, and German National identity (1988), and most recently, Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging (2016).  He is currently writing an interpretative history of the last 100 years, tentatively entitled "A New Spirit of the Laws."

Wilson Center Project

"Once Within Borders: History and Territory Since 1500"