Andrew I. Port was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. After receiving a B.A. from Yale University and a degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, he spent two years working and studying in Berlin before pursuing his graduate studies at Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Modern European History. Port has received support from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the Krupp Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He was also the recipient of a Wayne State University Summer Research Grant. His research focuses on modern Germany and Europe, communism and state socialism, labor history, social protest, as well popular resistance under autocratic regimes.
Courses:
- Modern Germany
- Twentieth-Century Europe
- World History since 1945
- Historical Research and Methods
Select Publications:
- Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2007) (paperback, 2008).
- “The ‘Grumble Gesellschaft’: Industrial Defiance and Worker Protest in Early East Germany”, in Klaus Tenfelde and Peter Hübner, eds., Arbeiter in der SBZ/DDR (Klartext: Essen, 1999), 787-810.
- “When Workers Rumbled: the Wismut Upheaval of August 1951 in East Germany”, Social History 22 (1997): 145-173.
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