Prior to coming to Rice, Dr. Hochstettler held positions in academic and financial administration at the University of Houston System, Bowdoin College, and Stanford University. Dr. Hochstettler holds the Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan, with minors in classical music literature and economics. His primary area of interest is German social and political history in the early modern period. His dissertation is Kurmainz: Administrative Polity and Political Change in the Electorate of Mainz. 1647 - 1729, and his current research interests center on the diplomatic and military activities of the Rhineland Kreise in the decades following the Peace of Westphalia. He has taught European military and social history at Michigan, Stanford, and Bowdoin. At Stanford, he was a Teaching and Research Fellow and taught in the Western Culture program. He studied financial management at the University of California - Berkeley graduate school of business. Dr. Hochstettler is a Woodrow Wilson National Fellow and a former Stipendiat of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.
He is married to Marcia Glas, and they have three sons: William (15), Taylor (12), and Benjamin (7). To relax, he gardens, swims, solves puzzles, and plays the piano.
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