Wolfram Kaiser

Visiting professor, European General Studies

Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth since 2000, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe since 1996 and the University of Bonn since 2003.

Previously (visiting) lecturer/professor at the universities of Edinburgh, Vienna, Paris IV, Cambridge, Innsbruck and Duisburg-Essen and (visiting) senior research fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Essen), the Norwegian Nobel Institute (Oslo), the University of Saarbrücken, the Center for European Integration Studies (Bonn), the Institute for European History (Mainz), the Europa Institute (Edinburgh), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Wassenaar) and at the Free Univeristy of Berlin.

• 1994 Doctorate in modern history at the University of Hamburg
• 1991 M.A./B.A. in modern history, international relations and public and European law at the University of Hamburg after studies in Bonn, Oxford and Hamburg.

Recent publications include:

• (ed. with Brigitte Leucht and Michael Gehler) Transnational Networks in Regional Integration. Governing Europe 1945-83 (2010)
• (ed. with Antonio Varsori) European Union History. Themes and Debates (2010)
• (ed. with Brigitte Leucht and Morten Rasmussen) The History of the European Union. Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (2009)
• Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (2007)
• (ed. with Peter Starie) Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space (2005)
• (ed. with Jürgen Elvert) European Union Enlargement. A Comparative History (2004)
• (ed. with Michael Gehler) Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 (2004)
• (ed. with Michael Gehler), Transnationale Parteienkooperation der europäischen Christdemokraten. Dokumente 1945-1965, K.G. Saur (2004)
• Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans. Britain and European integration 1945-63 (1999)

Professor Kaiser's research interests include European integration history, esp. political parties, transnational networks and European institutions; the role of experts and expertise in different forms of integration since the nineteenth century; and representations of the EU and European integration in museums across Europe.