Christoph Kimmich

Professor

Christoph Kimmich is a scholar of modern German history and has served as the President of Brooklyn College since 2000. President Kimmich came to Brooklyn College in 1973 after eight years of teaching at Columbia University. He served as chairman of the Department of History from 1980 to 1984, when he was appointed Associate Provost. He became Acting Provost in 1988 and Provost the following year. In 1997, he was appointed Interim Chancellor of the City University of New York, and served in that position until 1999. He has written several books and articles on German foreign policy and other subjects in German history. The recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, an International Affairs Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, President Kimmich spent the academic year 1974-75 at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the academic year 1983-84 as a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He received his B.A. at Haverford College and his D.Phil. from Oxford University.

Selected publications:

German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials (Scholarly Research, rev. ed., 1991)
Germany and the League of Nations (University of Chicago Press, 1976)
The Free City: Danzig and German Foreign Policy, 1919-1934 (Yale University Press, 1968)