Volker Rolf Berghahn (born 15 February 1938) is a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University.
His research interests have included the fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of World War I, and German-American relations.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and a PhD, under supervision of Francis L. Carsten, from the University of London in 1964.
In 1988, he accepted a position at Brown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later.
Berghahn now holds the chair of Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.