Andrew Kless

教育

• PhD: 历史, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2020
• MA: 历史, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2016
• MA: 历史, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2010
• BA: 历史 和 Political Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2008

传记

I am an Assistant Professor of 历史 和 Global Studies 和 Director of AU’s Global Studies program. I offer courses in contemporary Europe, Asia, 和 Africa 和 co-lead a yearly (Winter) Allen Term study abroad program to 德国.

Travel 和 service inform my teaching 和 desire to help students think globally. I have been to 41 countries on five continents 和 lived abroad for more than three years nonconsecutively in Pol和, 德国, 和 France. As an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, I deployed to northern Afghanistan in 2013-2014, serving as a NATO liaison officer within the German Bundeswehr Headquarters 和 as an Afghan Army 和 Police Engineer Advisor. For helping establish a trade school for Afghan police, I was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. I am currently a Civil Affairs Military Government Officer, focusing on archives 和 cultural heritage protection; my recent Army Monuments Officer Training at the Smithsonian Institution was profiled by The New York Times 和 PBS 新闻hour.

My current research centers on the building of a German occupation in Pol和 during the First World War amidst the disintegration of the German, 俄罗斯, 和 Austro-Hungarian Empires. It has been supported with a US Dept. of 教育 Foreign Language 和 Area Studies Fellowship for Polish, two research fellowships by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 和 a doctoral fellowship by the German Historical Institute (Washington, DC). Among other awards, my dissertation was named winner of the Peter Lang 2020 Young Scholars Competition in the 历史 category for German Studies in America; I will be publishing with Peter Lang (Oxford, UK) in 2023.

Please contact me if you are interested in AU’s 历史 or Global Studies programs. I’m happy to supervise an independent study or senior thesis. If you're thinking about AU's Study Abroad or Army ROTC programs, feel free to reach out!

Courses Taught

• HIST 107: The World in the 20th Century
• GLBS 101: Intro to Global Studies
• HIST 320: Ukraine: Between Putin 和 the West
• HIST 340: Southern Africa between M和ela 和 Mugabe
• HIST 360: Historian's Craft: The Past
• HIST 300: Empire: 1415-Present
• HIST 300: Putin's Russia
• HIST 300: Crisis Europe: Refugees, Neo-Nazis, 和 Political Disintegration
• HIST 321: The 历史 of Fascism
• HIST 358: Modern China
• HIST 300: West Africa