Anna von der Goltz
Professor
Anna von der Goltz teaches German and European History in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Department of History. Her research focuses on the political and cultural history of twentieth century Germany. Most recently, her work has dealt with postwar German history, especially with political activism in the the years around 1968. Her second monograph The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy was published in 2021.
Prior to coming to Georgetown, Anna von der Goltz was based in the United Kingdom. She held a postdoctoral Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford and was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. Her research on the Hindenburg myth (the subject of her first book) won the Wiener Library's Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History in 2008 and the German History Society and Royal Historical Society's joint Essay Prize in 2006.
She lives in Washington, D.C. and in Berlin.