Confino, Alon

Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1993. He has written extensively and influentially on historical memory, historical method and German history. Among his books are The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871 1918 (1997) and Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (2006). As a visiting professor, Confino has taught at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was recently a visiting fellow