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Dr. Dennis Dierks

Research Fellow

Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
Strohsackpassage
Nikolaistraße 10
04109 Leipzig

Abstract

Dennis Dierks studied History as well as Islamic, Turkic, and Slavonic Studies at the Universities of Mainz, Dijon, and Vienna and received my PhD at the University of Jena in 2014. Before joining the Department of History in Leipzig in 2022, he was a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz from 2009 to 2011 and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 2011 to 2021.

Professional career

  • since 01/2024
    Research fellow, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
  • 03/2023 - 12/2023
    Parental leave
  • 10/2022 - 02/2023
    Research fellow, Leipzig University, Chair of Eastern and Southeastern European History (Professor Dr Stefan Rohdewald)
  • 10/2021 - 09/2022
    Lecturer, University of Jena, Chair of Modern History (Professor Dr Carola Dietze)
  • 10/2017 - 08/2021
    Principal investigator of the project "The Muslim modernity as local and translocal practice. Transimperial entanglements of modernization discourses between Russia, the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG), University of Jena, Department of History
  • 04/2011 - 09/2017
    Research fellow, University of Jena, Chair of Eastern European History (Professor Dr Joachim von Puttkamer)
  • 08/2009 - 03/2011
    Research fellow at the Institute of European History, Mainz