Matthew Specter
About
Associate Editor of History and Theory
Senior Fellow, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Specter is an intellectual historian of modern Europe, Germany, and transatlantic relations whose research focuses on the modern history of international relations theory and international political thought. He is the author of two monographs, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge, 2010) and The Atlantic Realists: Empire and Political Thought Between Germany and the United States (Stanford, 2022). His articles and reviews have appeared History and Theory, Modern Intellectual History, Central European History, The Journal of Modern History, Constellations, Analyse und Kritik, and Global Studies Quarterly. He has published "What's 'Left' in Schmitt?" in the Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (2016) and on “America First,” in Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge, 2023). His theoretical interests include contemporary political theory, Critical Theory, post-narrativism, and the history of emotions. He is affiliated faculty with the Institute for International Studies at UC Berkeley and a Lecturer in History at Santa Clara University, where he teaches courses on the Holocaust, modern European history, political theory, and global history.