Timothy Garton Ash

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Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955) is a British historian focusing on Europe since 1945. He is director of the European Studies Centre and Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He is also a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences [1] a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a member of several editorial boards. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and frequently writes for other newspapers and magazines including The Guardian.

The File (1997) is his account of his seeking out his Stasi file in 1992.

Contents 1 Education 2 Awards and Honors 3 Partial bibliography 4 External links

Education

• Two degrees in modern history from Exeter College, University of Oxford
• Graduate study at St. Antony's College, Oxford; the Free University in West Berlin; Humboldt University in East Berlin.

Awards and Honors

• Somerset Maugham Award
• Order of Merit from the Czech Republic
• Order of Merit from Germany
• Order of Merit from Poland
• Honorary doctorate from St. Andrew's University, Scotland

Partial bibliography

• Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (Random House, 2004) ISBN 1400062195
• History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (Allen Lane, 1999) ISBN 0713993235
• Zeit der Freiheit: Aus den Zentren von Mitteleuropa (Carl Hanser, 1999) ISBN 3446197583
• The File: A Personal History (Random House, 1997) ISBN 0679455744
• Freedom for Publishing Publishing for Freedom: The Central and East European Publishing Project by Timothy Garton Ash, Ralf Dahrendorf, Richard Davy, Elizabeth Winter (Oxford University Press, 1996) ISBN 1858660556
• In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (Random House, 1993) ISBN 0394557115
• Witness: The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Random House, 1990) ISBN 068532964X
• The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 as Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (Random House, 1990) ISBN 0394588843
• La chaudière (Gallimard, 1990) ISBN 2070721264
• The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Random House, 1989) ISBN 0394575733
• The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82 (Scribner, 1984) ISBN 0684181142
• Und Willst Du Nicht Mein Bruder Sein...Die DDR Heute (1981)

External links

• Free World Web Timothy Garton Ash's web site
• Guardian Unlimited - Timothy Garton Ash full column archives
• Hoover Institution - Timothy Garton Ash profile
• Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley - 1996 Sanford S. Elberg Lecturer: Timothy Garton Ash profile, Is Europe Becoming Europe? lecture, transcript and video of Conversations with History - Intellectual Odyssey interview
• openDemocracy author - Timothy Garton Ash