Jörn Rüsen#
| Membership Number: | 5084 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.joern-ruesen.jimdo.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2007 Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Essen
- 1997 - 2007 Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Essen
- 1996 - 2009 Professor for General History and Historical Culture at the University of Witten/Herdecke
- 1994 - 1997 Managing Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Study (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld
- 1989 - 1997 Professor for General History with Special Respect to Theory of History at the University of Bielefeld
- 1974 - 1989 Professor for Modern History with Special Respect to History Didactics at the Ruhr-University of Bochum
- 1972 - 1974 Assistant and Associate Professor for Theory of1 History at the Free University of Berlin
- 1969 - 1972 Assistant Professor for Philosophy at the Technische Universität Braunschweig
Fields of Scholarship
- Theory of history
- History of historiography
- Modern intellectual history
- History didactics
- Historical culture
- Intercultural communication
- Humanism in intercultural communcation
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Order of Merit of the State of Northrhione-Westfalia
- 2010 Honorary Doctor of the University of Lund
- 2015 Honorary Doctor of the University of Brasilia
- 2016 Honorary Doctor of the Federal University of Parana at Curitiba
