Ronald J. Granieri
Assistant Professor of History
Ronald J. Granieri is Assistant Professor of Modern European History. A native of Niagara Falls, NY, he teaches courses on European International Politics and Diplomacy, with special attention to the period after 1945. After receiving his A.B. in History (1989) from Harvard, he received an M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) in History from the University of Chicago, and has also studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Cologne in Germany. He is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (Berghahn Books, 2003).
Prof. Granieri is the 2006 winner of both the Department of History's Richard S. Dunn Award for Undergraduate Teaching and Penn's Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Award For Distinguished Teaching By An Assistant Professor, as well as the 2008 winner of Penn's College of General Studies Distinguished Teaching Award for Standing Faculty. His current research focuses on the foreign policy conceptions of the European Christian Democrats and the development of the postwar Atlantic Alliance. Fellowships have included a Research Fellowship and a Federal Chancellor Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as well as membership in the American Council on Germany's Young Leader Program. He came to Penn after several years teaching at Furman University, and has also served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tübingen.
Courses Taught (As Schedule Allows)
For current course listings, consult the Course Directory.
- HIST 202 The Cold War
- HIST 420 European International Relations from the Age of Enlightenment to the Great War
- HIST 421 European International Relations since World War I
- HIST 620 Modern International History
