Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2022
  Vice-President Campus Development: Cooperation and Internationalisation, Leipzig University
• since 01/2020
  Spokesperson of the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University
• since 01/2018
  Co-Spokesperson of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research)
• since 01/2016
  Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 "Processes of Respatialization under the Global Condition" (funded by the German Research Foundation - DFG)
• since 01/2016
  Co-Spokesperson of the Leibniz-ScienceCampus "Eastern Europe - Global Area"
• since 01/2015
  Board member of the International Committee for Historical Sciences
• 01/2015 - 02/2020
  Member of the DFG-Review Panel 106
• 01/2014 - 03/2022
  Director of Leipzig University's Centre for the Study of France and Francophonia
• 01/2013 - 04/2022
  Director of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies at the Research Academy Leipzig
• 01/2012 - 04/2022
  (together with Ulf Engel) coordination of the joint study program (MA and PhD) "Global Studies with a Special Emphasis on Peace and Security in Africa" (Leipzig and Addis Ababa Universities)
• 01/2009 - 12/2019
  Spokesperson of the Centre for Area Studies
• 01/2011 - 12/2011
  Fellow in residence at the Netherlands Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
• 01/2008 - 06/2022
  Director of the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University
• since 01/2008
  Network Chair „World History“, European Social Science History Conference
• 06/2008 - 12/2008
  Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Center for Economic History and Social Planning
• 06/2007 - 06/2008
  Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Duke University
• since 04/2007
  Professor of Cultural History, Leipzig University
• 01/2006 - 08/2018
  Director of the Graduate Centre in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Research Academy Leipzig
• 01/2005 - 12/2006
  Visiting Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and at the Université de Yaoundé II
• 01/2005 - 12/2008
  President of the European Network in Universal and Global History
• since 01/2005
  General secretary of the International Committee for the Research on the History of the French Revolution (Commission of CISH)
• since 01/2005
  Spokesperson of the Consortium for the European Masters "Global Studies"
• 10/2004 - 09/2005
  
• 01/2001 - 12/2012
  Director of the International PhD-Program "Transnationalization and Regionalization from the 18th century to the present"
• 01/1999 - 12/2000
  Guest Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (rue d'Ulm) and at the Université Lyon II
• 01/1999 - 12/2002
  Deputy Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 417 "Identification with the Region. The Case of Saxony"
• 01/1998 - 12/1998
  Visiting Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris (IVe section)
• 01/1996 - 12/1997
  Visiting Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris and guest researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
• 10/1994 - 09/2008
  Acting Director of the Centre for Advanced Study at Leipzig University
• 10/1989 - 09/1993
  Postdoc at the History Department of Leipzig University, at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), at the Fondazione Einaudi Torino and at the Universities of Lyon II, Rennes II and Rouen

Education

• 09/2002
  Habilitation in the field of modern cultural and social history with a thesis on "World History Writing at the age of discipline building. The Institute for Cultural and Universal History in Leipzig 1890-1990" (published Leipzig 2005)
• 09/1989
  PhD degree with a thesis on the Counterrevolution in France 1788-1792 (summa cum laude)
• 01/1286 - 09/1989
  PhD-studies at the Department of General History supervised by Manfred Kossok and Walter Markov as well as at Lomonossov-University Moscow
• 10/1981 - 12/1985
  Study of History in Leipzig

After my dissertation investigating movements resisting to the French revolution and a period of research on French-German intercultural transfers I focused my research on dimensions of a comparative history of historiography with emphasis on world history writing during the 20th century. More recently I worked on various aspects of global history since the 18th century and in particular on processes of respatialization of the world. This comprises the many scales at which human interaction happens, but also migration regimes and commodity chains. The emergence of many different spatial formats becomes more and more a challenge for what Jacques Revel called once the jeux d'échelles (playing with scales) and for which we coined the term spatial literacy. Examples from the histories of Western and Eastern Europe, from Sub-Sahara Africa and from the Caribbean feed reflections upon these rather theoretical concepts.

• Global and European Studies Institute

  European Master Global Studies, EMGS Consortium

  External participating organisations: Universität Gent (Ghent, Belgium); London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom); Roskilde University (Roskilde, Denmark); Universität Wien (Wien, Austria); Roskilde University (Denmark)

  Involved persons: Middell, Matthias; Engel, Ulf
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more cooperations

Introduction to Global History

Intercultural Transfers and Transnational History since the 18th Century

Revolutions compared - from a Global History Perspective

A Global History of Populist Movements and Regimes

The History of the French Globalization Project

• Colloquium Processes of Re-Spatialization under the Global Condition

  summer term 2022 and winter term 2022/23

  Colloquium and Research Seminar

  
  

• Introduction to the Study of Global Dynamics

  winter term 2022/23

  Research Seminar together with Katja Castryck-Naumann and Megan Maruschke

• The History of French Globalization Projects

  summer term 2022

  Seminar

• Introduction to Global History

  winter term

  Lecture and seminar (together with Steffi Marung)

• Methods in Global Studies

  winter term 2021/22

  Lecture and Seminar (together with Katarina Ristic)

• Introduction to Global History

• Revolutions as Global Moments in Modern Global History

• History of the French Globalization Project

• Global History

• The Use of Methods for Globalisation Research

• Revolutions in Global History

• France and Globalisation