Comparative Politics

Eric Langenbacher is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Honors Program in the Department of Government, Georgetown University. Langenbacher studied in Canada before completing his PhD in Georgetown's Government Department in 2002. He has also taught at Washington College, George Washington University. and the Universidad Nacional de General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has given talks across the world in places such as Austria, Spain, Germany, the UK, China, and Qatar. He was selected Faculty Member of the Year by the School of Foreign Service in 2009 and was awarded a Fulbright grant in 1999-2000 and the Hopper Memorial Fellowship at Georgetown in 2000-2001. Recent publications include The German Polity, 11th edition (co-authored with David Conradt, 2017), The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal (2015), and Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe (co-edited with Ruth Wittlinger and Bill Niven (paperback 2015). Langenbacher has planned and run dozens of short programs for groups from abroad, as well as for the U.S. Departments of State and Defense on a variety of topics pertaining to American and comparative politics, business, culture, and public policy. He is also Managing Editor of German Politics and Society, which is housed in Georgetown's BMW Center for German and European Studies.