Dr Matthias Reiss
Biography
I was born in Hamburg, Germany, and studied history, political science and economics at the University of Hamburg before moving to the United States in 1993, where I studied U.S. History at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, under the supervision of Prof. Roger Daniels. I received my M.A. 'with distinction' in 1995 and returned to Hamburg, where I started research for my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Norbert Finzsch. From 1995 to 1997, I worked part-time as an Export Merchant before changing to the University of the Federal Armed Forces / Helmut-Schmidt-University, where I worked as Research Assistant at the Chair for Modern Western European History until 2001. I was awarded the Ph.D. ‘summa cum laude' for my thesis on the impact of race on the American prisoner of war programme during World War Two from the University of Hamburg in 2000. In the following year, I became a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London, where I stayed until February 2007. I joined the University of Exeter in March 2007 as Lecturer in History.
