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Prof. Dr. Benedikt Stuchtey

Head of Subproject C08 - Security and empire 

  • Contact

    Philipps-Universität Marburg
    Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6c
    Raum 03 C 04a
    35032 Marburg

    ☎ 06421 28-24600

  • Vita

    2022
    Philipps-Universität Marburg Award for excellent doctoral supervision

    2019
    Visiting Fellowship in Global History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

    2018
    Visting Fellowship at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge (UK)
    Visting Fellowship at the Forschungskolleg "Human Sciences" in Bad Homburg

    Since 2018
    Head of subproject in the CRC/Transregio 138 "Dynamics of Security" (Subproject C08 "Security and Empire. Dynamics of securitization in colonial spaces of the British Empire, 1780-1920", together with Andrea Wiegeshoff)

    2015 - 2018
    Dean of the Department of History and Cultural Studies

    2015
    Visiting professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

    2013
    Chair of Modern History (19th and 20th century) at the Philipps-Universität Marburg

    2012 - 2013
    Visiting professor for 19th and 20th century European history at the University of Basel

    2004 - 2013
    Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute London

    Studies of philosophy, history and German language and literature at the Universities of Münster, Trinity College Dublin and Freiburg/Brsg.

  • Research interests

    The research focuses on comparative imperialism and global history from the early 19th to the late 20th century and also deals with the history of historiography and theory, world historiography, the history of knowledge and knowledge transfer, and the history of the family and childhood since the 19th century.

  • Editorships, memberships and functions (selection)

    Member of the Senate of the Philipps Universität Marburg

    Member of the Permanent Senate Commission for Honors  

    Member of the Faculty Council for History and Cultural Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg

    Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carl and Charlotte Schott Foundation

    Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation

    Member of the Scientific Advisory Board and Selection Committee for the European Research Council, Brussels (funding program SH6, history department)

    Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

    Member of the expert and selection committee for the Swiss National Science Foundation (funding program 76)

    Member of the board of the research network Re-Configurations

    Member of the DAAD selection committee for doctoral scholarships

    Member of the Board of Trustees of the University Foundation

    Permanent member of the Philosophy and Cultural Studies section of the selection committee for awarding doctoral scholarships at Philipps Universität Marburg

    Reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, Oxford University Press, Manchester University Press, Berghahn Publishers, Routledge, etc.

    Member of the "Internationalization Steering Group" set up by the Presidential Board of Philipps Universität Marburg

    Member of the steering group of the "Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM)", Philipps Universität Marburg

    Permanent member of the Philosophy and Cultural Studies section of the selection committee for awarding doctoral scholarships at Philipps Universität Marburg

    Reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation as well as Oxford University Press, Manchester University Press, Berghahn Publishers, Routledge

    Member of the "Internationalization Steering Group" set up by the Presidential Board of Philipps University

    Member of the steering group of the "Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM)", Philipps University Marburg

    Association for Constitutional History

    Association of Historians in Germany

    Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

    Zeitschriften

    European Review of History. Revue Européenne d‘Histoire (1993-2003 co-editor, since 2003 part of the advisory board)

    Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London (Editor 1997-2004)

    Storia della Storiografia. Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung (since 2002)

    Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte (member of council since 2015)

    Publication series
    Historische Grundlagen der Moderne. Nomos-Verlag (Mit-Herausgeber seit 2016)

    Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte. De Gruyter Verlag (Mit-Herausgeber seit 2017)

    Ordnungen globaler Macht. Nomos-Verlag (Mit-Herausgeber seit 2019)

  • Publications (selection)

    2021
    Geschichte des Britischen Empire, München.

    2019
    Das Britische Empire. Themen, Tendenzen und Trends in der Forschung zur britischen Geschichte (16.-20. Jhd.), Teil II, in: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 70, Heft 11/12, 698-718.

    Kolonialismus, in: Staatslexikon. Recht-Wirtschaft-Gesellschaft, 8. Aufl., hg. von Heinrich Oberreuter u.a., Freiburg, Bd. 3, 917-923.

    Mobilitätsdynamiken und ihre Schnittpunkte in einer vergleichenden Geschichte der Imperien, in: Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann und Albrecht Fuess (Hrsg.), Transottomanica - Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Perspektiven und Forschungsstand, Göttingen, 25-44.

    Mobilitätsdynamiken und ihre Schnittpunkte in einer vergleichenden Geschichte der Imperien, in: Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann und Albrecht Fuess (Hrsg.), Transottomanica - Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Perspektiven und Forschungsstand, Göttingen, 25-44.

    2018
    (Mithg.), (In-)Securities across European Empires and Beyond, Journal of Modern European History, Vol.16, 2018/3, C.H. Beck.

    (In-)Securities across European Empires and Beyond. Mapping a New Research Field (zus. mit Andrea Wiegeshoff), in: Journal of Modern European History, Vol.16, 3, 321-334.

    Neujustierungen der Imperialismustheorien. Themen und Tendenzen der jüngeren internationalen Forschung, in: Andreas Wirsching und Aleksandr Čubar'jan (Hrsg.), Imperien, Nationen, Regionen. Imperiale Konzeptionen in Deutschland und Russland zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (Mitteilungen der Gemeinsamen Kommission für die Erforschung der jüngeren Geschichte der deutsch-russischen Beziehungen, Bd. 8), De Gruyter/Oldenbourg Verlag, Berlin/Boston, 10-39.

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