Curriculum Vitae
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Personal Information
- Citizenship: German
- Marital Status: Married, two children
- Birth: 1962
- Senior Researcher, History of Emotions
Education
| 2007 | Habilitation in Modern History, University of Bielefeld |
| 1993 - 1994 | Training as an archivist, State Archive of Rhenania, Koblenz (practical part of the training) |
| 1991 | PhD, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg |
| 1983 - 1986 | Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg (History of South Asia, Medieval and Modern History, Public Law) |
| 1981 - 1983 | Degree studies at the University of Saarland (Medieval and Modern History, History of Eastern Europe, Public Law) |
| 1981 | Abitur (school-leaving certificate) at the German School, Paris |
Professional Experience
| since 2012 | Extraordinary Professor, Freie Universität Berlin |
| since 2008 | Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
| 2006 - 2007 | Research Fellow at the Modern Orient Centre Berlin in the Programme Development Department |
| 2006 | Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin |
| 2002 - 2005 | Project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation on the research project "Plural Identities of Muslims in Old Delhi in the 19th century", University of Erfurt |
| 1997 - 2003 | Archival Studies in Delhi on "Plural Identities of Muslims in Old Delhi in the 19th century" |
| 1995 - 1997 | Research project on "Lifestyles. The Catholic milieu in Hennef (Rhineland)", accompanying this: Adult education in the archdiocese of Cologne |
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
| March 2020 | Research Fellow at the International Centre of Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP), Delhi |
| March 2016 | Visiting Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of South Asia Studies |
| March 2013 | Visiting Professorship at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Institut des Etudes de l'Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman, Paris |
| 2011 | Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, FRIAS |
| 2010 | “Geisteswissenschaften International” Award - Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences (by Thyssen Foundation, collecting society VG Wort, German Publishers and Booksellers Association and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany) |
| 2008 | Habilitation Prize of the Association of German Historians |
| 1987 | DAAD stipend, Hyderabad |
| 1981 - 1986 | German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
Academic Activities
| 2022 - | Co-Coordinator of the Project Retrieving Past Lifes from Jamia - Tazkirah-e Jamia, (common initiative by the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF Delhi) and the Centre de Sciences Humaines, Delhi) |
| 2021 - | Member in the ERC Project India's Politics in its Vernaculars", (Principal Investigator Anastasia Piliavsky, Kings College London) |
| 2021 - | Member of the International Advisory Board of the Project "The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Socio-Political and Cultural Semantics in Germany", at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin |
| 2020 - | Member of the Advisory Board of "The Historian - Research Journal" (Government College, Lahore) |
| 2020 - | Member of the Editorial Board of "Sindhu: An Interdisciplinary Journal of South Asian Studies" |
| 2020 - | Chair of the Advisory Board of the India Branch Office of the Max Weber Foundation, Delhi |
| 2019 - 2020 | Member of the advisory board of the German Historical Institute, London |
| 2018 - 2023 | Vize Chair "History of Concepts Group" |
| 2017 - 2023 | Co-Editor of Contributions to the History of Concepts (with Jan Ifversen and Jani Marjanen) |
| 2017 - | Principal Investigator and Board Member of the Graduate School Global Intellectual History of the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2016 | Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society, established by Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE) |
| 2016 - 2023 | Member of the Executive Board of the History of Concepts Group |
| 2014 - | Co-editor of the series "Globalgeschichte. Theorien, Ansätze, Themen", [Global History. Theories, Approaches, Topics], Campus Verlag (with Sebastian Conrad and until 2023 Andreas Eckert) |
| 2013 - | Co-Editor of History of Emotions - Insights into Research (with Anja Laukötter) |
| 2012 - | Member of the Faculty of MA Global History, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2012 - 2020 | Principal Investigator of the International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies (concluded in 2020) |
| 2012 - 2017 | Member of the Editorial Board of Contributions to the History of Concepts |
| 2009 - 2012 | Co-Editor of Contributions to the History of Concepts (with Sinai Rusinek) |
| 2009 - | Elected Member of the board of editors of Geschichte und Gesellschaft (journal of historical Social Sciences) |
| 2008 - 2014 | Member of the Advisory Boards of Concepta (International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought) |
| 2008 - | Principal Investigator of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin |