Department of Government

Eric Langenbacher is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Senior Honors Program in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on comparative politics, political culture and political films. He studied in Canada before starting graduate work in the Government Department and Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown in 1996. He was awarded a Fulbright grant in 1999-2000 and held the Ernst Reuter Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin in 1999-2000, the Hopper Memorial Fellowship at Georgetown in 2000-2001, and was selected School of Foreign Service faculty member of the year by the 2009 graduating class. He has been teaching in the Government Department since Fall 2002, and also has taught at George Washington University and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His dissertation, defended with distinction in September 2002, forms the basis of his book manuscript “Memory Regimes and Political Culture in Contemporary Germany” currently under review at several presses. He has also published edited volumes, "Lauching the Grand Coalition: The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics," with Yossi Shain) "Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations," "Between Left and Right: The 2009 Bundestag Election and the Transformation of the German Party System," and (with Jeffrey Anderson) "From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic: Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification."
His research interests center on political culture, collective memory, political institutions, public opinion and German and European politics. He has published in German Politics and Society, German Politics, The Canadian Journal of Political Science, The International Journal of Politics and Ethics and in several edited volumes. He has also planned and run dozens of short programs on various aspects of U.S. politics and society for visitors from abroad.