Peter Paret

Peter Paret is Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. His most recent books are German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945 (Cambridge University Press 2001); AnArtist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 (Cambridge University Press 2003); and the 2008 Lees Knowles Lectures at Cambridge University, The Cognitive Challenge of War (Princeton University Press 2009). For his essay on Marc Bloch and Clausewitz, “Two Historians on Defeat,” he was awarded the Historical Society’s 2010 Jack Miller Center Prize.