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| Areas
of
interest |
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European
political
and
intellectual
history
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Nordic
political
culture
and
the
welfare
state
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Italian
and
Spanish
20th-century
history
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Transatlantic
relations
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Classical
civilization
and
its
heritage
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| Education
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| 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 |
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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
|
| 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
|
| 1988 |
Research
trips
to
Germany,
France,
UK
|
| 1990-91 |
7-month
research
and
teaching
stay
in
Denmark
and
Germany
|
| 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
|
| 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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| 2001- |
Fascism,
war,
and
civil
war
in
Italy;
the
history
of
freedom
in
European
thought
|
| 2003- |
Causes
and
evolution
of
prosperity
in
free
societies
|
| 2008- |
The
Spanish
Civil
War.
To
see
a
summary
of
project
click
here.
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David
Richard
Gress
Vestervang
23,
iv.
tv.
8000
Aarhus
C
Denmark
E-mail:
gress@stofanet.dk
tel.:
+
45
8610
6990
or
+45
3091
2383
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Born
29
January
1953,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Nationality
U.S.
and
Danish |
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| Selected
presentations
(since 1996) |
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 |
| 2009 |
“The
Role of Leisure in Contemporary Liberal Societies”.
4th
annual Vanenburg Meeting, Budapest
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| Important
Research
Grants and Subject
|
| 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
|
| 2003 |
Summer
fellowship, Earhart Foundation
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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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