SEBASTIAN CONRAD
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
– 2010 – Chair of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin
– 2007 – 2010 Full Professor of Modern History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy
– 2007 Appointment to Chair of Modern History at the University of Bern, Switzerland (declined)
– 2003 – 2007 Assistant Professor [Juniorprofessor], Department of
– History, Free University of Berlin
– 1999 – 2003 Assistant Professor [Wissenschaftlicher Assistent], Department of History, Free University of Berlin
Scholarships and Fellowships
– 2009 Professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris
– 2003 -2004 Jean Monnet Fellowship of the European University Institute in Florence (1 year; declined)
– 2001 Professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris
– 1999 – 2000 Fellow at the German Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Awards
– 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012, for German Colonialism: A Short History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
– 2007 Philip Morris Award for research into the history of globalization (www.philipmorrisstiftung.de)
– 1999 – 2005 Member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (www.diejungeakademie.de)
– 1999 Ernst Reuter Dissertation Award (for best dissertation at the FU Berlin in the year 1999)
Editorial committees
– Past and Present (editorial board)
– Book series “Globalgeschichte” (Global History), together with Andreas Eckert, Ulrike Freitag (Campus Publishers, Frankfurt)
– Geschichte und Gesellschaft (editorial board)
– New Global Studies (www.bepress.com/ngs) (editorial board)
Advisory boards
– 2007 – Advisory board of the Excellence Program of the University of Munich (lmuexcellent)
– 2012 – Advisory board of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo
– 2012 – Advisory board of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin)