Matthew G. Specter

I am Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for International Studies, both at the University of California at Berkeley. I am also a Lecturer in the History Department at Santa Clara University and Associate Editor of the journal History & Theory. My expertise includes the history of modern international relations theories and international political thought, modern European intellectual history, 20th century German history, and contemporary social, political and cultural theory. A former Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University (2008-2017), I have held fellowships from the International Center for Research in Cultural Studies in Vienna, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the American Council on Germany. I earned the PhD in modern European history from Duke University in 2006, and, I have taught at Duke, Stanford, George Mason University in addition to CCSU. I have been a visiting scholar at Duke University's Center for International and Global Studies, Wesleyan University's Center for Humanities, the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. My first book, an intellectual biography of Europe's most important living philosopher, Jurgen Habermas,was translated into Spanish and Turkish, and widely reviewed.I have also published articles and reviews in Dissent, the LA Review of Books, the Harvard International Review, Verfassungsblog.de, Human Rights Review, German Politics and Society, Modern Intellectual History, History and Theory, Constellations, the Journal of Modern History, and Central European History.