Robert Gerwarth

While working on his doctorate at the University of Oxford, Gerwarth was appointed to a two-year lectureship in modern European history.

Reviews have noted Gerwarth's diligence in digging through archives and other sources in the United States and Ireland in order to uncover the nature of his subject.

Gerwarth’s fourth monograph, November 1918: The German Revolution was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

In his review for the Financial Times, Tony Barber wrote: ”Gerwarth's November 1918 [is one] of the most stimulating histories of the interwar period to have been published in recent years.

Gerwarth says that living in such a significant historical city sparked his interest in European history.