Peter Paret
Modern European History
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical
Studies

The principal areas of Peter Paret's research are the intellectual and political challenges of war, and the relationship of art and literature to ideology and politics. He has published two books on contemporary military theory, Guerrillas in the 1960s [with John W. Shy] (1961), and French Revolutionary Warfare (1964); a case-study of military innovation, Yorck and the Era of Prussian Reform (1966); a biography, Clausewitz and the State (1976, rev. eds. 1985 and 2007);  two books on conflicts over aesthetic modernism, The Berlin Secession (1980) and An Artist against the Third Reich (2003); as well as Art as History (1988), Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art (1997), two volumes of essays, and several edited volumes.  He is the 2008 Lees Knowles Lecturer on the History of War at Cambridge University, and currently works on a study of art and political iconography.

Ph.D., University of London, 1960;  Research Associate, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1960-62, Fall 1963;  Faculty, University of California, Davis, 1962-69;  Professor, Stanford University, 1969-77, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of Inter-national History,1977-86;  Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Institute for Advanced Study, 1986-97, Professor Emeritus, 1997-;  Thomas Jefferson Medal, American Philosophical Society, Samuel Eliot Morison Prize and Moncado Prizes, Society of Military Historians; Officer's Cross, Order of Merit, German Federal Republic.