Ronald J. Granieri’s Bio

Ronald J. Granieri is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Syracuse University. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago, he is a specialist in Modern German and International History, with special interest in the Cold War and the Atlantic Community. He has received fellowships including a Federal Chancellor Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and membership in the American Council on Germany’s Young Leader Program, and has taught at institutions including Furman University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Tübingen. He is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003), and is completing a book entitled: “The Fall and Rise of German Christian Democracy, From Détente to Reunification,” for Oxford University Press. When not ruminating on the complexities of academic life, he cultivates his sense of gloom and disappointment as a fan of the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and Chicago Cubs. He lives happily (no, really!) with his wife and son outside of Philadelphia.