Norman Naimark on the Main, Rhine, and Danube

Norman Naimark, '66, MA '68, PhD '72, is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European History, emeritus, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has served as the chair of Stanford’s history department, the Burke Family Director of Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program and the Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of Stanford’s Global Studies Division. Known at Stanford for his warmth and wit, the popular faculty leader has led more than 30 past Travel/Study programs. He has been working and traveling in Germany and Central Europe for more than a half century. His most recent book, Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty (Harvard University Press, 2019), includes chapters on the Berlin Blockade and the Austrian State Treaty.

• Senior Fellow (courtesy), Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

• Recipient: Richard W. Lyman Award for outstanding faculty volunteer service, Stanford Alumni Association, 1995; Dean’s Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1991–1992, 2002–2003; and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,1996

• BA 1966, MA 1968 and PhD 1972—all history, Stanford University