Kiran Klaus Patel

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 (2011-2019) 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 and has held visiting professorships/fellowships (inter alia) at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, Sciences Po Paris and the University of Freiburg. His book, The New Deal: A Global History won the WHA Bentley Book Prize, awarded by the World History Association.[2] In 2018 (English version with Cambridge University Press in 2020) Patel published a history of the European Union that attracted a lot of media attention in Germany and internationally.

Patel is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Arts and Science, the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz and the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Science.

• Willy Brandt Foundation, Member of the International Advisory Board[3]
• Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Chair of the Advisory Board
• Contemporary European History, Member of the Editorial Board
• Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Member of the Editorial Board
• Monde(s). Histoire - Espaces- relations, Member of the Editorial Board

His books include:

• Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
• Fertile ground for Europe? The history of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945 (Baden Baden: Nomos, 2009).
• The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence (with Christof Mauch) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• The Cultural Politics of Europe: European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s (London: Routledge, 2013).
• European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
• Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law (with Heike Schweitzer) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
• Projekt Europa: Eine kritische Geschichte (Munich: Beck, 2018).
• ‘‘Project Europe: A History‘‘ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).