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European political and intellectual history
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The American Civil War
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Italian and Spanish 20th-century history
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Classical civilization and its heritage
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| Education |
| 1970-72 |
Philosophy and Classics, University of Copenhagen
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| 1972-75 |
Classical Tripos, University of Cambridge
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| 1975-81 |
Ph D in History, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
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| Positions held |
| 1981 |
Research Fellow, Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark, and Lecturer, University of Copenhagen
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| 1982-83 |
National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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| 1983-84 |
Maître d’études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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| 1984-92 |
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
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| 1989-91 |
Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Stanford University
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| 1990 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Odense University, Denmark
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| 1992-95 |
John M. Olin Professor, Adelphi University
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| 1993-94 |
Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Fellow, Gonville and Caius College
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| 1994-2000 |
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
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| 1995-2000 |
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute and Co-Director of its History Academy
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| 1996-2001 |
Senior Research Fellow, Danish Institute of International Affairs
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| 1999 |
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University
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| 1999-2001 |
Associate Professor of Classics, Aarhus University, Denmark
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| 2001-2003 |
John M. Olin Professor of The History of Civilizations, Boston University |
| 2003-2008 |
Commentator, Jyllands-Posten
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| 2011 |
Commentator, Berlingske Tidende |
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Summary of Research Activities
by Date and Main Subject |
| 1975-79 |
The medieval papacy, canon law, origins of state sovereignty
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| 1976-78 |
Marxism, environmentalism, and democracy
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| 1978-79 |
Marxism, culture, and politics in Italy |
| 1982-85 |
The West German peace movement of the 1950s and 1980s in the context of European
security policy and West German political culture
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| 1984 |
Research trip to the Soviet Union
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| 1984-88 |
Post-1945 West German political history; the origins, ideology, and post-1970 fiscal crisis
of the Scandinavian welfare state; post-1945 French intellectual history
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| 1986 |
2-month research trip to Germany
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| 1988 |
Research trips to Germany, France, UK
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| 1990-91 |
7-month research and teaching stay in Denmark and Germany
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| 1993-94 |
Cambridge: teaching and research on the idea of the West |
| 1994-96 |
Completion of book on the West and of study of German foreign policy in historical and ideological context
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| 1995-99 |
Foreign Policy Research Institute: citizenship and the teaching of history; European political culture and security policy during and after the Cold War
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| 1995-99 |
Danish Institute of International Affairs: political change in the US; the United Nations; comparative social policy
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Fascism, war, and civil war in Italy; the history of freedom in European thought
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Causes and evolution of prosperity in free societies
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| 2008- |
The Spanish Civil War.
To see a summary of project click
here |
| 2012- |
The American Civil War
(in Danish) |
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| The Danish boarding school Sorø Academy 1970. |
David and his mother the Danish author
Elsa Gress. |
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| David's father the biographer and critic R.W.B. Lewis. |
David and his stepfather the artist Clifford Wright. |
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Selected
presentations
(since 1996) |
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1996 |
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University of Pennsylvania: “Origins of the Idea
of the West”
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Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center: “German
Political Culture”
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Danish Institute of International Affairs:
“Italy after the 1996 Elections” |
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1997 |
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Heartland Symposium on the Future of the Welfare
State, Madison, Wisconsin: “Demographic
Challenges to Welfare State Policies”
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History Institute, Foreign Policy Research
Institute: “The History of History”
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1998 |
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Danish Institute of International Affairs:
“Religious Forces in Global Politics”
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Danish Institute, Rome: “Identity of Western
Civilization,” response to panel debate on book
From Plato to NATO
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History Institute, Foreign Policy Research
Institute: “Multiculturalism in World History:
The Greek and Roman Experience”
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1999 |
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Danish Institute, Athens: ”Occidentalism: Is
’the West’ an Ideology?”
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Sorø Akademi, Sorø, Denmark: ”Is Liberalism
Victorious?”
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History Institute, Foreign Policy Research
Institute: “The Geopolitics of History: Europe”
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Winchester College, England: ”Late Antiquity and
the Origins of the West”
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2000 |
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University of Hull, England: ”Spengler, Curtius,
and the German Appropriation of the West after
World War I”
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History Institute, Foreign Policy Research
Institute: “The Cold War”
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2001 |
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Sorø Akademi, Sorø, Denmark: ”The History of
Human Rights”
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Ry Højskole, Ry, Denmark: ”Globalization:
Challenge to the Welfare State?”
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2002 |
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“The Geopolitics of Europe.”
Foreign Policy Research
Institute, Philadelphia
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2003 |
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“The Meaning of Mobility in Western
Civilization.”
Bioethics Implications
of Globalization Processes conference, National
Research Council of Italy, Rome
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“The Post-Atlantic Situation.”
Symposium
Im Westen was Neues,
Volksbühne, Berlin |
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2004 |
Presentations
on the U.S. presidential elections to academic and
professional groups, Denmark
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2005- |
Presentations
on U.S. foreign policy; the welfare state; liberalism;
globalization to academic and professional groups,
Denmark
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2008 |
“The Legacy of 1968 in the Culture”.
3rd
annual Vanenburg Meeting, Madrid
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2008 |
Presentations to seminars and roundtables on the U.S.
presidential election |
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2009 |
“The Role of Leisure in Contemporary Liberal Societies”.
4th
annual Vanenburg Meeting, Budapest
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Important
Research Grants and Subject |
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1981 |
Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen: the modern state
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1988 |
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Committee on Security and Disarmament,
Copenhagen: US policy toward Europe
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Director
of Net Assessment, Department of Defense,
Washington, DC: German foreign and security
policy |
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1990-91 |
German Marshall Fund: political history of West Germany
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1992 |
Committee on Security and Disarmament, Copenhagen:
socio-cultural trends in US
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1992-94 |
Director of Net Assessment, Department of Defense,
Washington, DC: foreign policy and long-term political
and cultural trends in unified Germany
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1993-94 |
Smith Richardson Foundation, New York: the idea of the
West
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1994 |
John M. Olin Foundation: the idea of the West
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1995 |
Summer fellowship, Earhart
Foundation
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1995-98 |
fellowship at Foreign Policy Research Institute, funded
by John M. Olin Foundation, Donner Foundation, Lynde and
Harry Bradley Foundation
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2001-03 |
Chair at Boston University partly funded by John M. Olin
Foundation
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2003 |
Summer fellowship, Earhart Foundation
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2004-05 |
Jyllands-Postens
Fund, Denmark, for research on the history of freedom
and the origins of economic growth
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Other Professional Activities
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1968-88 |
Translation of nonfiction works
from English, German and French to Danish and from
Danish to English
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1980-81 |
Organizer, chairman and moderator of the First and
Second European Congress on Freedom and the Future, The
European College, Stege, Denmark
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1985-95 |
Consulting to staff of US Department of Defense on
European political and security developments
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1993-94 |
Advisor to founding board, The College of the Baltic,
Aabenraa, Denmark
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2004- |
Member of advisory commission on the future of the
welfare state in Denmark chaired by Professor Steen
Hildebrandt, Aarhus Business School
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2004 |
Member of the board, Center for Political Studies,
Denmark
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2004-09 |
Member of the board, Jyllands-Postens Fond (owner of
Jyllands-Posten)
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2007-08 |
Member of the Danish government’s committee to produce a
“Canon of Democratic Thought”
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Language
skills |
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Bilingual in English and Danish.
Fluent in German, French,
Italian, Spanish.
Read Latin and classical Greek.
Reading knowledge of Dutch.
Slight Russian.
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