Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of German Studies, has been named an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar - Lifetime by ScholarGPS.
In the specialty of modern history, Classen is ranked fifth in the world and just second in the United States and honored for “exceptional productivity, noteworthy impact and quality of scholarly work.”
ScholarGPS analyzes scholarly activity, producing rankings based on a “continually updated, fully indexed compilation of metadata corresponding to over 200 million archival publications.” Highly Ranked Scholars are recognized for being in the top 0.05% of scholars in their specialties worldwide.
Classen, who began his career at the University of Arizona in 1987, specializes in German and European medieval and early modern literature and culture. He has published 132 books, 810 scholarly articles, 402 lexicon and encyclopedia entries and about 2,920 book reviews. He has won several prestigious teaching awards, most recently the Five Star Faculty Award (2009) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 2012 Arizona Professor of the Year Award. He was knighted as Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017.