Anna von der Goltz teaches 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. Lately, her work has mostly dealt with postwar German history, especially with political activism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Prior to coming to Georgetown in 2012, Anna von der Goltz held a Junior Research 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, DC with her husband and young son.
