GEOFFREY JOHN GILES





Updated August 2008
 

Office Address Department of History 
P.O. Box 117320 
University of Florida 
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320 

Telephone: (352)-273-3373
Fax: (352) 379-0935 
E-mail: ggiles@history.ufl.edu 
Home page: www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ggiles 
 

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, 
University of Florida 
Education: Bournemouth Grammar School for Boys, 1958-65 
University College, London, 1965-69 
Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, 1966-67 
St. Edmund's House, University of Cambridge, 1969-71, 1973-74 
Universität Hamburg, 1971-73 
Degrees: B.A. in German (French as subsidiary subject), upper second class honours, 1969, University of London 

Certificate in Education, with distinction, 1970, University of Cambridge 

Ph.D. in History, 1975, University of Cambridge 

Ph.D. Dissertation:
The National Socialist Students' Association in Hamburg, 1926-1945 
Academic and other Awards: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, held at Universität Freiburg, 1987-1988 

German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1991-92 

Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000-2001 

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2003-2004
 

Academic Positions: Post-doctoral Fellow, Higher Education Research Group, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 1975-76 

Research Associate, Yale Higher Education Research Group, 1976-78 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Florida, 1978-79 

Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1979-83 

Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1983 to date (Tenure awarded: July 1983) 
 

Professional Service: President, and Chair, Board of Directors, Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., Inc.,1996-1999 
Member, Board of Directors, 1999-present

Senior Vice-President, 2000-present 

Chair, International Standing Working Group on Gender and the History of Education, International Standing Conference for the History of Education, 1993-2000, 2001. 

Honorary Consultant, Holocaust Educational Foundation, 1998-present [one of three, with Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes] 

Board of Directors, Alexander von Humboldt Association of America, Founding Member, 1994-1998

Chapter President, Florida Chapter, AvHAA, 1999-2000, 2001-2002

Chair, Archives Committee, German Studies Association, 1990-99 

Executive Committee, Alcohol and Temperance History Group, 1984-2000 

Secretary-Treasurer, German Studies Association (1,000 members), 1985-87 

Executive Secretary, Alcohol & Temperance History Group (200 members), 1985-87 

President, Alcohol and Temperance History Group, 1992-95 

Director, Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Eastern European Study Seminar, in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, 1994, 1997, 2001 & 2003

 

Editorial Boards Editorial Board, German Studies Review, 1990-99 

Editorial Board, German History, Founding Member, 1989-1996 

Editorial Advisory Board, German History, 1996-present 

Editorial Board, Alcohol and Temperance History Group, 1984-85

Editor, The Social History of Alcohol Review (founding editor), 1985-90 

Executive Board, The Social History of Alcohol Review, 1990-2000

Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Founding Member, 1989-93