Paul Kerry

Field: German/Jewish/Intellectual Historian Contact Info: paul_kerry@byu.edu 2149 JFSB (801) 422-2983 Consultation Hours (Winter 2007): M, W, F 2:00 – 2:50
Current Classes:	Biography
Hist 202H. World Civilization since 1500 Hist 328. Modern Germany Hist 390. The Idea of Europe	Dr Kerry is an associate professor in the department of history and member of the European studies faculty. His training spans several universities including Oxford, Harvard, and Chicago and he has held various visiting posts at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Reading. His publications have engaged with the history of ideas, historiography, interdisciplinary history, German thought, modern Jewish history, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Victorian Era. He has published a book on Goethe and Enlightenment thought and edited books on Goethe, Schiller, Carlyle, and Mozart’s Magic Flute. He is completing a book manuscript on German intellectual history and is serving as an associate editor for the University of California’s critical edition of Carlyle’s German essays. His current areas of research include the eighteenth-century Moravian missions and the ideas of Christopher Dawson. In 2005 he received Brigham Young University’s Young Scholar Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Classes Taught:
Hist 200. Historian's Craft Hist 202. World Civilization since 1500 Hist 244. Jewish History from 70 AD to the Present Hist 312. History of Ideas Hist 315. European Jews and the Holocaust Hist 328. Modern Germany Hist 390. The Idea of Europe Hist 390R. Usable Pasts: History and the Public Square Hist 390R. Honors History and Literature Hist 490. Senior Research and Writing Seminar Hist 690. Graduate Seminar in History