Kiran Klaus Patel
Kiran Klaus Patel is a German-British historian. He holds a Chair at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Education and career
Patel studied history at the University of Freiburg and at Humboldt University of Berlin.
He is currently a professor and chair at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, after having held chairs at Maastricht University and at the European University Institute in Florence. Moreover, He spent the academic year 2014-15 as visiting professor at the London School of Economics. His book, The New Deal: A Global History, won the WHA Bentley Book Prize, awarded by the World History Association. In 2018, Patel published a history of the European Union that attracted a lot of media attention in Germany. In 2019 Patel became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.Other activities
His books include:
- Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945.
- Fertile ground for Europe? The history of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945.
- The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence
- The Cultural Politics of Europe: European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s .
- European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s .
- Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law .
- The New Deal: A Global History .
- Projekt Europa: Eine kritische Geschichte.
