Christopher J. Wickham is Professor of German Emeritus at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Wickham holds a Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an M.Phil. and B.A. (Hons) from the University of Reading in the U.K. From 2004 to 2013 he served as Associate Dean in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at UTSA.
His publications include Diendorf (Kr. Nabburg, Oberpfalz) (1987), a German dialect study; Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television (1992, co-edited with Bruce A. Murray); Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany (1999); Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus (2018, with Daniel J. Gelo); Comanches, Captives, and Germans: Wilhelm Friedrich’s Drawings from the Texas Frontier (2023, with Daniel J. Gelo, C.B. “Hoppy” Hopkins, and Bryden E. Moon Jr.); and The German Texas Frontier in 1853: Ferdinand Lindheimer’s Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians (2024, with Daniel J. Gelo).
Wickham and Daniel J. Gelo were awarded the Presidio La Bahia Award for best book on early Texas history for Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier. For Comanches, Captives, and Germans they and their co-authors, Hoppy Hopkins and Bryden Moon, received the 2023 Ed Mergele Book Award of the Genealogical Society of Kendall County.
