Frank Trommler, Professor emeritus of German at the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of the Department of Germanics since 1970. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1984/85, President of the German Studies Association in 1991/92, and from 1995-2003 Director of the Humanities Program at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC. In 2014 he received the Honorary Doctorate of Modern Languages from the Middlebury Language School. One of the leading cultural historians of modern Germany, Trommler has published widely in the field of German-American relations.
