Joachim Häberlen is a historian and writer. He graduated with a PhD in Modern European History with Distinction from the University of Chicago in 2011, and then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions in Berlin. Most recently, he held the position of Associate Professor of Modern Continental European History at the University of Warwick (2013 – 2022). He is currently retraining as an English and History teacher.

Dr Häberlen’s research into radical political and protest movements of the twentieth century is driven by a desire to understand how ordinary people have attempted to challenge and change existing social and political orders.  He has written monographs and co-edited books on subjects ranging from the mobilisation of the working-class to the politics of emotions within the alternative left, as well as articles on themes such as leftist children’s books, the politics of sexuality, communal living, and the turn to spirituality amongst leftists in the 1970s. Dr Häberlen is currently working on a major history of protests and countercultures in post-war Europe, which will be published by Penguin Press in 2023.

Dr Häberlen grew up in Heidelberg, Germany and now lives in Berlin. He is actively engaged in supporting people who fled from Afghanistan and Syria to Germany because of their political activism.