Dinner and Annual MeetingProfessor Emeritus Charles Maier '60, PhD'67 (and Scarsdale High '56)We are honored to welcome back Professor Emeritus Charles Maier '60, PhD '67 (and Scarsdale High '56), a noted historian on European History. Professor Maier will be talking to us about the 75th anniversary of the Victory in Europe (V-E Day) and the challenges and opportunities facing Europe today.
Prior to retiring, Maier was the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard, teaching European and international history.
Charles S. Maier, born February 23, 1939 in New York City, was most recently the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University.
After graduating from Scarsdale High in 1956, where a picture of Maier hands in the main hallway along with other prominent alumni, Maier graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1960, studied at St. Antony's College, Oxford on a Henry Fellowship during 1960-61, and returned to take his Ph.D. in history at Harvard, 1961-67.
He taught at Harvard as instructor, assistant professor, and lecturer from 1967 to l975 and returned as a professor in 1981. He taught undergraduate courses on modern world history, the two world wars, the European Union, and political trials and political justice (Ethical Reasoning 12). Additionally, Maier has held numerous fellowships, including, a Distinguished Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the MacArthur Foundation.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Among his publications are numerous scholarly articles and include the books:
The Annual Dinner will be held at Sunningdale Country Club, 300 Underhill Road, Scarsdale.
You are welcome to bring guests.
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