Prof. Dr. Benedikt Stuchtey

From January 1st until the end of March, Prof. Stuchtey will undertake a visiting professorship at the Center for Global History at the University of Oxford (UK).

Office Hours

There will be no offers from 01.01.24 3 31.03.24

Normal hours resume on 01.04.204:
Mondays: 12:00 - 14:00.
Room 03C04a
Registration via Ilias is required before visiting office hours: Register here!

If you are unable to attend one of these sessions, please contact Prof. Stuchtey via email for an individual appointment.

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  Prof. Stuchtey’s research specialises in the fields of comparative empire studies and global history, with an emphasis on the early 19th to the late 20th Century. His published works have covered topics from the history of historiography and historical theory, the writing of world history, and the history of knowledge and knowledge transfer, to the history of family and childhood since the 19th Century. More recently, as project leader of the SFB-138 sub-project “Security and Empire”, Prof. Stuchtey is currently conducting research on the issue of security within the British Empire.

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  Professional Positions:

  2022	Philipps-Universität Marburg award for excellent doctoral supervision
  2019	Visiting Fellowship at the Munich Centre for Global History at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
  2018	Visiting Fellowship at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge
  2018	Visiting Fellowship at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg, Germany
  2018	Member and sub-project Leader in SFB/Transregio 138 “Dynamics of Security”, Sub-project C08 “Security and Empire”, together with Andrea Wiegeshoff
  2015-2018	Dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Sciences at the University of Marburg
  2015	Guest Professorship at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  2013	Professorship in the Department of Modern History (19th and 20th C.) at the University of Marburg
  2012-2013	Guest Professorship for 19th and 20th C. European History at the University of Basel
  2004-2013	Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute, London

  Education:

  2007	Habilitation, “Die Europäische Expansion und ihre Feinde. Kolonialismuskritik vom 18. bis in das 20. Jahrhundert”, University of Konstanz, supervised by Prof Jürgen Osterhammel.
  1995	D. Phil, “W. E. H. Lecky (1838-1903). Historisches Denken und politisches Urteilen eines anglo-irischen Gelehrten", University of Freiburg, supervised by Prof Ernst Schulin.

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  Journals

  European Review of History / Revue Européenne d‘Histoire (Co-Editor 1993-2003, member of advisory board since 2003)

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

  Storia della Storiografia (Since 2002)

  Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte (Member of advisory board since 2015)

  Published Series

  Historische Grundlagen der Moderne, Nomos-Verlag (Co-Editor since 2016)

  Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte, De Gruyter Verlag (Co-Editor since 2017)

  Ordnungen globaler Macht, Nomos-Verlag (Co-Editor since 2019)

  Memberships and Functions (Selected)

  Speaker of the Commission “Colonial Legacy in Hesse” (Koloniales Erbe in Hessen), funded by Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science, and the Arts (2021)

  Member of the University of Marburg Senate (2014-2020)

  Member of the standing senate commission for honours, University of Marburg

  Member of the faculty council at the department of history and cultural sciences, University of Marburg

  Member of the selection committee for the International Award for Research in Germany prize awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 

  Member of the board of trustees at the Carl and Charlotte Schott Foundation

  Member of the scientific advisory board for the Geschwister-Boehringer-Ingelheim-Stiftung

  Member of the scientific advisory board and selection committee for the European Research Council, Brussels (Funding programme SH6, History)

  Member of the expert and selection committee for the Swiss National Science Foundation (Funding programme 76)

  Member of the board of directors for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research funded research network: Re-configurations

  Member of the DAAD selection committee for doctoral scholarships

  Member of the board of trustees of the Universitätsstiftung

  Permanent member of the selection committee for doctoral scholarships at the University of Marburg (philosophy and cultural studies section)

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

  Selected member of the internationalization steering group at the University of Marburg

  Member of the steering group for the “Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM)” at the University of Marburg

   Associational Memberships

  Vereinigung für Verfassungsgeschichte

  Association of German Historians

  Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

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  Recent Publications and Press Appearances (selection):
  
  In unsere Mitte genommen. Adoption im 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Benedikt Stuchtey and Bettina Hitzer. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2022.
  
  "Die Idee der Kolonie selbst ist eine unmoralische". Über die Freiheit des Menschen und die Kritik am Kolonialismus, in: Historische Urteilskraft. Magazin des Deutschen Historischen Museums 5 (2023), 10-14.
  
  Geschichte des Britischen Empire, C.H. Beck Verlag, München 2021.
  
  Comment on God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914, by Joshua Bennett, Oxford, University of Oxford Press, 2019, History of European Ideas, DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2022.2030933 (2022).
  
  Das schwierige Erbe des Kolonialismus. Die europäische Debatte über den Umgang mit den kolonialen Vergangenheiten (16. Dez. 2020), in: https://www.kas.de/de/web/wissenschaftliche-dienste-archiv/zeitgeschichte-aktuell/detail/-/content/das-schwierige-erbe-des-kolonialismus
  
  Nach dem „Great War“. Positivismus, Legitimationskrisen und die Kritik am britischen Empire im Schatten des langen Ersten Weltkriegs, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 73/3 (2021), 221-247.
  
  A full list of Prof. Stuchtey's publications can be found here.