Axel Körner#
Photo: Riccardo Mandelli
| Membership Number: | 6413 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/profile/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-axel-koerner |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0341-2962 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 to date Professor of Modern Cultural and Intellectual History, Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig
- 2021 to date Honorary Professor, Department of History, University College London
- 2020 (Oct) 2021 (March): Leibniz-Professor (visiting professor), Leipzig University (Germany)
- 2012 to 2021 Professor of Modern History, Department of History, University College London
- 2009 (April - May) Visiting Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University
- 2008 (May - June) Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2007 (Jan - July) Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2005 to 2012: Associate Professor (Reader) in Modern European History, Department of History, UCL
- 1996 to 2005: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern European History, Department of History; European Social and Political Studies (ESPS), UCL
- 2008 to 2021 Director, UCL Centre for Transnational History
Fields of Scholarship
- History of political thought
- Intellectual and cultural history
- Transnational history
- History of music
- European history
Honours and Awards
- 2021 - 2026, ERC Avanced Investigator Grant, "Transopera: Opera and the Politics of Opera in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914“, €2.500.000 + overheads
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- Member, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands eV (VHD)
- Member, AG Italien
- Member, Instituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano (Gruppo di Studio Tedesco)
- 2016 - 2019, Leverhulme Trust, International Network Grant (IN-2015-045), Re-imagining italianità: opera and musical culture in transnational perspective, £124,789 (PI)
- 2018 Helen&Howard Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association (AHA)
- Fellow, UCL European Institute (since 2016)
- 2015 - 2018, Leverhulme Trust, Major Research Award (MRF-2014-028), Transnational Monarchy. Rethinking the Habsburg Empire, 1804-1918, £153,940 (PI)
- 2005 - 2009, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), four-year research grant The American Way of Life. Images of the United States in Nineteenth-century Europe and Latin America (Co-Investigator with Nicola Miller; £235,401; overheads £63,256) Major collaborative research project with 2 PhDs and 2 post-docs
