Interviewee: Jonathan Sperber received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1980. Since 1984, he has been at the University of Missouri, since 2003 as the Curator’s Distinguished Professor of History. Sperber has written extensively on the social, political and religious history of nineteenth century Europe, especially central Europe.  His most recent work is Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life (NY, 2013), which has also appeared in Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Iranian, French, German, Spanish and Brazilian editions. Sperber’s current project is writing a global history of the second half of the twentieth century, entitled “The Age of Interconnection.”