Sebastian Conrad - Curriculum Vitae#
Academic Positions
- Since 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
- 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
Degrees
- 2005 Habilitation, Free University of Berlin
- 1999 Ph.D., Free University of Berlin (summa cum laude)
- 1994 M.A., Free University of Berlin
- Majors: History, Japanese Studies. Minor: Economics
Fellowships
- 2017 (spring term) Theodor Heuss Chair at the New School for Social Research, New York
- Winter 2013 Visiting fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2009 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)
- 1996 – 1999 Dissertation Scholarship of the German Research Council (DFG)
- 1995 – 1996 Japan Foundation Scholarship, Guest Researcher at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Selected Research Grants
- 2017-2021 DFG Research Training Group “Global Intellectual History” (total: 4,131.580€)
- 2016-2017 Research project „The role of advisors and experts during the reform period in Siam under king Rama V.“; German Research Foundation 2014-2017 Research project “Educate the East Indies: Western, Islamic and Chinese Morality in Women’s Schools, 1900-1930” (German Research Foundation)
- 2011-2015 Director of project „Korea and East Asia in Global History“, funded by the Academy of Korean Studies; (total 1,000,000. Euro)
Administrative Experience
- 2005-2007 Vice Dean of the Faculty „History and Area Studies“ of the Free University of Berlin
- 2003-2005 Co-ordinator of the Curriculum and responsible for the Bachelor program at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut