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Gerd-Rainer Horn

Chercheur permanent

Professeur d'histoire politique à Sciences Po

Academic Work Experience

  • Professeur d’Histoire Politique, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), 2013
  • Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick, 2010 -2012
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Warwick, 2005-2010
  • Lecturer, Department of History, University of Warwick, 2001-2005
  • Senior Lecturer, Dept. of History, University of Huddersfield, 2000-2001
  • Research Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1998-9
  • Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Western Oregon University, 1997-2000
  • Visiting Asst. Professor, Dept. of History, Universität Kassel, Germany, Summer Semester 1997
  • Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western Oregon University, 1994-7
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Montana State University, 1993-1994


Academic Education

  • University of Michigan, 1986-1992, Ph.D. History
  • University of Michigan, 1986-1988, M.A. History
  • University of Minnesota, 1977-1981, B.A. History

Annonce spéciale

Gerd-Rainer Horn,
The Spirit of Vatican II
Western European Progressive Catholicism in the Long Sixties
Oxford University Press, 288 pages, 4 juin 2015

Bibliographie sélective

Single-Author Monographs:

  • The Moment of Liberation: Western Europe (1943-1948) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Left Catholicism in the Long Sixties, 1959-1980, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • Western European Liberation Theology, 1924-1959: The First Wave (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
  • The Spirit of ‘68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism, and Contingency in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Edited Volumes

  • "L’Esprit de Vatican II", co-edited with Yvon Tranvouez, special issue of Histoire @ Politique (forthcoming 2016)
  • Letters From Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009)
  • 1968 und die Arbeiter. Studien zum ‘proletarischen Mai’ in Europa, co-edited with Bernd Gehrke (Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 2007)
  • Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945, 1968, 1989, coedited with Padraic Kenney, (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
  • Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society at the Point of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943- 1955, coedited with Emmanuel Gerard, (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001)

Bibliographie exhaustive

Chapitres/Articles publiés (depuis janvier 2013)

  • “L’esprit de Vatican II”, Notes (270) [Fondation Jean Jaurès], 13 May 2015, pp. 1-9.
  • “Der europäische Linkskatholizismus der Zwischenkriegszeit. Der Ursprung der katholischen Aktion“, Rottenburger Jahrbuchs für Kirchengeschichte 32 (2013) [published in August 2014], pp. 159-72.
  • Gerd-Rainer Horn, "Les chrétientés catholiques à l'épreuve des sixties et des seventies' in: Yvon Tranvouez (sous la direction de), La décomposition des chrétientés occidentales 1950-2010 (Brest: Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, 2013), pp. 23-35
  • Gerd-Rainer Horn, "Die Quellen der Transnationalität des westeuropäischen Linkskatholizismus (1924-1954). Querdenker, Kommunikationsnetzwerke und soziale Bewegungen" in: Claus Arnold et Johannes Wischmeyer (sous la direction de), Transnationale Dimensionen wissenschaftlicher Theologie (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), pp. 107-121

Entretiens (depuis janvier 2013)

Sélections de liens

> WORKSHOP: TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY (January – April 2013)

Doctorants dirigés

Selim Nadi

"Grammaires" anticolonialistes des gauches radicales allemade(s) et francaise(s) : 1946 - 1975. Échanges politico-théoriques entre la France et l'Allemagne.