The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed professor Peter Fritzsche to its permanent faculty. CAS professors are selected based on their outstanding scholarship, and the appointments are one of the highest forms of campus recognition at the U. of I. Fritzsche joins six other faculty members including Lisa Ainsworth, plant biology; Scott Denmark, chemistry; Jodi Flaws, comparative biosciences; Bill Gropp, computing and data science; Helen Neville, educational psychology; and Brent Roberts, psychology.
They join 17 other CAS professors with permanent appointments. CAS professors deliver the annual lecture, serve on the committee that selects the CAS associates and fellows each year and are called upon for advice on matters related to the center.
Deans, directors, department heads and current CAS professors submit nominations of the campus’s most productive faculty members for permanent appointment to the center.
Fritzsche is the W.D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of History and has appointments in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Germanic Languages and Literature, the European Union Center, the Center for Global Studies, and the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center. His research has mainly focused on Germany in the 20th century, and he has published a number of books in that area, including Life and Death in the Third Reich, and Hitler’s First Hundred Days. He also has published works on cultural and intellectual history, including Stranded in the Present: Modern Times and the Melancholy of History. His work has received international recognition, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Cundhill Prize.
Editor's note: A version of the story originally appeared on the University of Illinois News Bureau website