Matthias Middell#
| Membership Number: | 6788 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4953-501X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Vice-Rector Campus Development, Leipzig University
- 2020 - present Director of the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics
- 2013 - 2022 Director of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Leipzig University
- 2008 - 2022 Director of the Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University and Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Masters Global Studies
- 2010 - 2020 Director of the Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University
- 2007 - 2008 Distinguished Fulbright Professor Transnational History, Duke University
- 2007 - present Professor of Modern Cultural History, Leipzig University
- 1994 - 2006 Managing Director of the Centre for Advanced Study, Leipzig University
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoc at the University Paris I, Fondazione Einaudi Torino, University of Rouen and University Lyon II; Senior Researcher at the History Department of Leipzig University
- 1985 - 1989 PhD-Student at Leipzig University and Lomonosov University Moscow
Fields of Scholarship
- Global studies
- History
- Political geography
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques
- 2010 - 2011 Fellow in Residence at the Dutch Centre for Advanced Study in Wassenaar
- 1996 - 1997 Guest Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
