Philipp Lenhard is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History and German at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on modern German and Jewish history, comparative European history, and Intellectual history, especially the Frankfurt School.

Lenhard studied Jewish Studies, Philosophy and Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne and received his PhD in Jewish History and Culture from the University of Munich. From 2014 to 2022, he was Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. His dissertation was awarded the Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013, Lenhard was a visiting scholar at Charles University in Prague, in 2015-16 at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, and in 2020-21 at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. In 2016-17, Lenhard was Visiting Chair of Jewish Studies at the Martin Buber Institute of the University of Cologne.

Among his publications are the monographs Volk oder Religion? Die Entstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland, 1782-1848 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), Friedrich Pollock – die graue Eminenz der Frankfurter Schule (Suhrkamp, 2019), and the edited volume Rethinking the Age of Emancipation: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800-1918 (Berghahn, 2020). His new book Wahlverwandtschaften. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Freundschaft im deutschen Judentum, 1888-1938 is forthcoming with Mohr Siebeck.