James Sheehan

Dickason Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Modern European History

At Stanford Since 1979

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
A.B., Stanford University

In my most recent book (published by Oxford University Press in 2000), I examine the relationship between aesthetic ideas, cultural institutions, and museum architecture in nineteenth century Germany. Although I still have an interest in these issues, I am now working on problems in European international history. I have just completed a manuscript with the working title “The Monopoly of Violence: War and the State in Twentieth-Century Europe.” My next project will trace the theory and practice of sovereignty in Europe from the late middle ages to the present.

• The International System in the 20th Century

• The Second World War in  Europe and America

• States and Sovereignty in the Modern World

• The Career of Lujo Brentano: A Study of Liberalism and Social Reform in Imperial Germany (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1966)
• German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978). Methuen Paperback 1982, Chicago Paperback 1982. Paperback reprint, Humanities Press, 1995. German translation: Die deutsche Liberalismus von den Anfängen im 18.Jahrhundert bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1983).
• German History,1770-1866 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989; Paperback, 1993) German translation: Der Ausklang des alten Reiches (Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1994).
• "Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in der Geschichte der Kunst," in: W.Hardtwig and H-H.Brandt, eds., Deutschlands Weg in die Moderne.Politik, Gesellschaft, und Kultur im 19.Jahrhundert (Munich: C,H.Beck, 1993).
• "From Princely Collections to Public Museums: Toward a History of the German Art Museum," in: Michael Roth, ed., Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche. Essays in Honor of Carl E.Schorske (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994),170-82. German translation in Andreas Grote, ed., Macrocosmos in Microcosmos. Die Welt in der Stube (Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 1994), 855-74.
• "Vorbildliche Ausnahme: Liberalismus in Amerika und Europa," in: Jürgen Kocka et al., eds., Von der Arbeiterbewegung zum modernen Sozialstaat. Festschrift für Gerhard A.Ritter (Munich: Saur Verlag,1994), 236-48.
• "The German States and the Habsburg Monarchy since 1789," American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature (3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 964-97.
• "1871, 1990: Kontinuität und Wandel in zwei Vereinigungen," in: Walther L.Bernecker and Volker Dotterweich, eds., Deutschland in den international Beziehungen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift für Josef Becker (Munich: Verlag Ernst Vögel, 1996), 347-61.
• "The German States and the European Revolution," in: Isser Woloch, ed., Revolution and the Meaning of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), 246-79.
• "Nation und Staat. Deutschland als 'imaginierte Gemeinschaft," in: Manfred Hettling and Paul Nolte, eds., Nation und Gesellschaft in Deutschland. Historische Essays (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1996), 33-45.
• "Aesthetic Theory and Architectural Practice: Schinkel's Museum in Berlin," in: David Wetzel, ed., From the Berlin Museum to the Berlin Wall. Essays on the Cultural and Political History of Modern Germany (Westview: Praeger, 1996), 11-30.

• "Nineteenth-Century Culture," The Short Oxford History of Europe, edited by T.C.W.Blanning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

• "Nineteenth-Century Culture," The Short Oxford History of Europe, edited by T.C.W.Blanning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Museums in the German Art World. From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism. (Oxford and new York: Oxford University Press, 2000) German translation, Geschichte der deutschen Kunstmuseen (C.H.Beck, 2002).
• "Democracy" and "Political History," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. by Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes (2002)
• "Germany," The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, edited by Alan Charles Kors (Oxford University Press, 2002).
• "The German Renaissance in America," in: The Italian Renaissance in the Twentieth Century, edited by A.J.Grieco et al (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002).
• “What it Means to be a State: States and Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe.” Journal of Modern European History, I:1 (2003), 11-23.
  
  

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1985-86
• Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, 1989-90
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992-
• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1992-93
• Walter J.Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, 1995-96
• Corresponding Fellow, Royal Historical Society
• Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschlands, 1998
• Guggenheim Fellow, 2000-2001
• Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 2001
• Member, American Philosophical Society, 2001
• The Paul Davies Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, 2003-
• President, American Historical Association, 2005