Alexander C. T. Geppert

Alexander Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies at New York University. He holds a joint appointment at NYU Shanghai and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City. Born and raised in Germany, he has four history degrees, including a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. From 2010 to 2016 he directed the Emmy Noether research group ‘The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Century’ at Freie Universität Berlin.

Alexander Geppert has held fellowships at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, the German Historical Institutes in London and Paris, at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, NYU Florence and the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität München. In 2019–2020, he is the first European to hold the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.