DPhil in History, University of Oxford, 2013.
M.A. in History, University of Chicago, 2008, NYU
M.A. Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
B.A. in International Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002
Andrew Tompkins is a Berlin-based historian of contemporary Europe who has published extensively on transnational history, protest movements, and border regions.
He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2013 before holding a post-doc at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and subsequently serving as Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sheffield. His first monograph, Better Active than Radioactive! (Oxford University Press, 2016) examined transnational connections between French and West German anti-nuclear energy activists. From 2020 to 2022, he conducted a DAAD-funded research project at the Universität Erfurt and Uniwersytet Wrocławski on Polish women who worked in East German factories during the 1980s. His current research examines everyday life along the Polish-German and French-German borders after 1945.
Andrew is a citizen of Germany and the United States who has also lived for extended periods in the United Kingdom, France, Poland, and Japan. He teaches “Berlin’s Modern History” at NYU Berlin.
andrew.tompkins@nyu.edu