Joachim Kurtz#
| Membership Number: | 5033 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/institute/staff/kurtz |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Full Professor (W3) of Intellectual History and Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
- 2009 Director, Independent Research Group “Standards of Validity in Late Imperial Chinese Discourses,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- 2009 - 2010 Associate Professor of Chinese, Emory University (on leave)
- 2003 - 2008 Assistant Professor of Chinese, Emory University
- 2002 - 2003 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2000 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 1997 - 2000 Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Book history
- Intellectual history of late Imperial China
- Scientific and cultural exchanges between Europe, China and Japan
- Translation studies
- Chinese political thought, philosophy and logic
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
- 2014 Visiting Scholar, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
- 2013 Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2009 Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities, Emory University
- 2007 Visiting Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- 2007 Outstanding Faculty Distinction Award, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Emory University
- 2004 Professeur invité, Centre d’Études sur la Chine Moderne et Contemporaine, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- 2002 - 2003 Membership and Fellowship Grant, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
