Faculty and Staff
Harry Liebersohn
Professor of History
Harry Liebersohn specializes in European intellectual and cultural history and in German history. Since the late 1980s he has been interested in the global contexts of European intellectual history, which he has explored by studying European travelers to North America and the Pacific. His forthcoming book, The Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacific, is scheduled for publication by Harvard University Press in March 2006. Among his other publications are Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians (Cambridge University Press, 1998); "Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso, and Romantic Travel Writing," in The American Historical Review of June 1994; and Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923 (MIT Press, 1988).
During 1996-1997 he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J. "From mid-May to late June of 2008 he will be a Guest Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin."
He has recently taught courses on the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the history of travel, social thought, and cosmopolitans.
The Harvard University Press webpage for Harry Liebersohn's new book, The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific, may be viewed at: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/LIETRA.html?show=contentsResearch interests: European intellectual history, German history, history of travel, history of religion, social theory.