Peter Jelavich is an author

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 and Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University

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. Previously, Jelavich was professor of history and chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

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. He received his PhD

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 from Princeton University

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 in 1982. Jelavich specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe since the Enlightenment

Age of Enlightenment

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, with emphasis on Germany

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. His areas of interest include the interaction of elite and popular culture; the history of mass culture and the media; and the application of cultural and social theories to historical study. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006). He was the 1987 recipient of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

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Books

• Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10338.php

• Berlin Cabaret. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993 (paperbound edition, 1996). http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/JELBER.html

• Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985 (paperbound edition, 1996