since 09/2009: Reader / Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of St Andrews
09/2006 – 8/2009: Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews
10/2004 – 8/2006: Research Fellow, Berlin School for Comparative European History (BKVGE), Freie Universität Berlin
Education
10/2003: PhD in History, Technical University Berlin / Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
08/1999: Magister Artium, Free University Berlin
08/1997 – 03/1998: Studies in History, Université Lumière, Lyon II, France
09/1995 – 08/1999: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Political Science, Free University Berlin
10/1993 – 08/1995: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Political Science, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel
Fellowships
09-12/2017: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute (EUI), Florence
07/2016: Visiting Senior Fellowship, Institute for European History (IEG), Universität Mainz
02-06/2016: Visiting Fellowship, Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies, Harvard University
05/2013: Karl Ferdinand Werner Fellow, German Historical Institute, Paris
03/2012-04/2012: Visiting Professor / professeur invité, Science Po, Paris
06/2011: Visiting Fellow at the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO), Leipzig
12/2010: Visiting Fellow at Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), Munich
09/2006 – 08/2007: Feodor-Lynen-Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, visiting fellow at European University Institute (EUI), Florence
03/2006: Visiting professor / Professeur invité at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
International Conferences & Invited Lectures
“Up and Down the Scales. Visualising the Esperanto Movement around 1900”, University of Manchester, 27 February 2020
“Esperanto Expertise? Local Actors – Transnational Knowledge in the early twentieth century”, Graines Summer School, Charles University, 10 June 2019
“Drang nach Osten?” Imperial Fantasies, Population Politics, and the Changing Patterns of Global Migration in the Long Nineteenth Century (Panel Comment, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh University, 28 September 2018)
Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonisation of Kourou, and Climates (not Pirates) of the Caribbean, c. 1760-1790s (Columbia University NY, 19 September 2018, Pittsburgh University, 25 September 2018 & Charles University Prague, 24 October 2018)
Modern Europe. A Transnational History (European University Institute, 11 October 2017)
Prussia’s Atlantic History: Imperial Rivalries, the Partitions of Poland-Lithuania and French Guiana in a (speculative) global context, 1760s-1790s (Durham University, conference: C.A. Bayly, 19-20 May 2017)
After the territorial trap. Reframing and spatializing histories – borders, territories, and the shift from transnational to transnational (European University Institute, Florence; workshop: Working with Space, 1-2 December 2016)
Travels in Lotharingia OR What if…Napoleon had spoken Esperanto? A spatial, long-term analysis of the inner Empire and its legacy (including: zinc, code and a very small territory), (University of Ljubljana, conference key note: Borders and Administrative Legacy, 24-26 November 2016)
Baking transnational Europe: 150 gramm nodes, 5 actors, a few cities, 1 egg – but how much global? Confessions by a euro-centric historian (University of Heidelberg, Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context, 17 July 2016)
Challenges and Pitfalls in Writing Modern Europe Transnationally: Reconfiguring Scales, Space, and Periodisation, c.1760s-2000s (Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 30 March 2016)
The untrustworthy Mr W. A. Mozart. Cartography and the visualisation of territory and time in the German Lands, c.1830s-1860s (Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, 9 March 2016)
Writing a Transnational History of Europe (Durham University, 11 November 2015)
Travel and “biggish” data visualisation as spatial history. Thoughts on a changing research environment, disciplinary boundaries, and the practice of transnational history (UCL, London, 10 November 2015)
Dots, Lines, and Colours in (Trans)nationally Contested Spaces. Ethnic Groups, Territorial Overlaps and the Mapping of German Border Regions between 1820s and 18870s (College of William & Mary, US, 19 March 2015)
Research Grants
since 09/2019: Principal Investigator project “Esperanto & Internationalism, c.1880-1930” (total 120,000 Euro)
since 09/2018: Project Collaborator “Maps & Oceans. A History of Globalisation from the Sea” (with Professor Iris Schröder, Erfurt University, funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany)
09/2017: Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Travel and Research Grant, for “Modern Europe” monograph)
08/2015: Research Grant, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
03/2011 – 07/2011: British Academy, Research Grant
09/2006 – 08/2007: Feodor-Lynen-Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, visiting fellow at European University Institute (EUI), Florence
Main Publications
Monographs
Revolution, Krieg und Verflechtung. Deutschland und Frankreich, 1789-1815 (Revolution, War, and Entanglement. Germany and France, 1789-1815), vol. 5: Deutsch-Französische Geschichte, Werner Paravicini/Michael Werner (eds.), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2008 (co-authored book, contribution of 75,000 words). #1b French translation (including two extended chapters and added bibliographical material): Révolution, guerre et interpénétrations, 1789-1815. L’Allemagne et la France, Presses Universitaires de Septentrion 2013.
Nicht West – nicht Ost. Frankreich und Polen in der Wahrnehmung deutscher Reisender zwischen 1750 und 1850, (Neither West – Nor East. France and Poland in the Perception of German Travelers, c. 1750-1850), Göttingen: Wallstein 2006 (research monograph 155,000 words). #2b Polish translation: Nie Zachód, nie Wschód. Francja i Polska w oczach niemieckich podrózych w latach 1750-1850, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Neriton, 2012.
Edited Volumes, Journals, Book Series
Spatial History and Its Sources, ed. with Riccardo Bavaj and Konrad Lawson, London: Routledge (forthcoming 2020).
Beiträge zur Europäischen Geschichte, Böhlau: Cologne Weimar Vienna. (book series European History in Global Perspective, six co-editors; currently lead co-editor with Martin Lengwiler Basel, since 2015).
Shaping the transnational sphere. Experts, networks, and issues (c. 1850-1930), ed. with Davide Rodogno and Jakob Vogel, New York: Berghahn 2014.
Size Matters. Scales in Transnational and Comparative history, special issue: International History Review, ed. with Kate Ferris and Jacques Revel, vol. 33/4, December 2011.
Grenzräume. Ein europäischer Vergleich vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, ed. with Christophe Duhamelle/Andreas Kossert, Frankfurt/Main: Campus-Verlag 2007.
Die Grenze als Raum, Erfahrung und Konstruktion. Deutschland, Frankreich und Polen 17.-20. Jahrhundert, ed. with Etienne François/Jörg Seifarth, Frankfurt/Main: Campus-Verlag 2007.
Die Welt erfahren. Reisen als kulturelle Begegnung von 1780 bis heute, ed. with Hans Erich Bödeker/Arnd Bauerkämper, Frankfurt/Main: Campus-Verlag 2004.
Selected Articles & Book Chapters
Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonisation of Guyana and Climates in the Caribbean, c. 1760s-1780s, in: Klaus Weber and Jutta Wimmler (eds.), Globalised Peripheries. Central and Eastern Europe’s Atlantic Histories, c. 1680-186, Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 19-36.
Maps as Spatial Language, in: Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson and Bernhard Struck (eds.), Spatial History and its Sources, London: Routledge. (forthcoming 2021)
(with James Koranyi) Space: Empires, Nations, Borders, in: Arpad von Klimo, Irina Livezeanu, (eds.), History of East Central Europe since 1700, New York London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 27-79.
Sir John auf Reisen oder Wie die Zahlen nach Schottland kamen. Der “Statistical Account of Scotland” in transnationaler Perspektive, in: Julia Ellermann, Dennis Hormuth, Volker Seresse (eds.), Politische Kultur im frühneuzeitlichen Europa, Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2017, pp. 253-272.
(with Martin Schaller) Bayerische Hottentotten, schottische Barbaren und Homer auf Tahiti. Bereister Raum, beschriebene Zeiten und die Verortung des Eigenen und Fremden im späten 18. Jahrhundert, in: Christoph Dejung, Martin Lengwiler (eds.), Ränder der Moderne. Neue Perspektiven auf die Europäische Geschichte, Cologne Weimar Vienna: Böhlau, 2015, pp. 37-64.
In search of the ‘West’, c.1770s-1840s: The Language of Political, Social and Cultural Spaces during the Sattelzeit, in: Riccardo Bavaj, Martina Steber (eds.) German Images of the West. The History of a Modern Concept, New York: Berghahn 2015, pp. 41-54.
