Principal investigator, Princeton Theological Seminary
Simon Unger is Assistant Professor of Modern European Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Principal Investigator of this research group at the German Historical Institute in Rome. He earned his doctorate in modern European history at the University of Oxford in 2018, and his Swiss Habilitation from the University of Fribourg in 2023. Previously, he taught as a visiting professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and as a lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford.
His first monograph, “The Periodicals ‘Eckart’ and ‘Hochland’”, retraced the history of Christian political journalism in twentieth-century Germany (Schöningh-Verlag, 2023). His second book, titled “Consensus in Conflict: Nazism and the Shared Foundations of German Intellectual Culture”, concentrated on political language under Nazi dictatorship (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2026). He is currently working on a new book project titled “Shadows of the Occident: Catholicism in the Political Thought of Post-War Europe, 1945–1960
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Book Project:
Shadows of the Occident: Catholicism in the Political Thought of Post-War Europe, 1945-1960
