Udi Greenberg

His first book, The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2015), traces the intellectual, institutional, and political journey of five influential political theorists from their education in Weimar Germany to their participation in the formation of the Cold War. It argues that both Germany's postwar democratization, and the German-American alliance, were deeply shaped by these émigrés' attempts to revive intellectual, religious, and political projects first developed in Weimar Germany. In 2016, it was awarded the Council of European Studies' Book Prize (for best first book in European studies 2014-2015). It also appeared in German, Korean, and Hebrew translations.

His second book, The End of the Schiem: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2025) focuses on the intersection of religion, politics, gender, and imperialism. It explores how a series of changes in Catholics and Protestants' thinking about economics, sexuality, and global politics (from the rise of Nazism to the Cold War and decolonization in Asia and Africa) brought about the end of the prolonged religious animosities between the two confessions, and the consequences this had for European governance.

Together with Giuliana Chamedes (UW-Madison), he is also co-writing a book, which is tentatively called Decolonization and the Remaking of Europe (under advance contract with Princeton Univesity Press). Through a series of thematic chapters, it charts how the collapse of Europe's empires, and the migration that followed, helped altered European approaches to varied issues like policing, welfare, labor, envoirnmentalism, religion, and sexuality.

His articles (mostly related to these book projects) have appeared in the American Historical Review ,  Journal of Modern History , Journal of the History of Ideas , Journal of the American Academy of Religion , Contemporary European History , and Journal of Contemproary History, among others. He has also published several essays on politics, religion, and history in The Nation , The New Republic, Dissent , Boston Review, L.A. Review of Books, n+1   and elsewhere (links to a few recent examples are available below).

Together with Elizabeth Foster (Tufts University) he is the co-editor of the essay collection Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity (UPenn Press, 2023). He is also editorial board member of Modern Intellectual History , and was editorial board member of the Journal of Modern History (2020-2023).

At Dartmouth, he teaches a wide variety of classes on modern European and international history. In 2016, he was elected by the senior class as Dartmouth's best professor, and was awarded the Jerome Goldstein Award, Dartmouth's top teaching prize.