Daniel Siemens - Biography#

Daniel Siemens is a historian of modern (Central) Europe and its global entanglements, with a particular interest in the history of mass media and journalism, the interwar years, Nazism and its aftermath, the cultural history of politics, legal history, historiography, criminal history, German-Jewish history and the history of the GDR.

After having studied history, literature and law in Potsdam, Montpellier and Berlin, Daniel Siemens received his doctorate in modern history from Humboldt University Berlin 2006, where he has also started to teach as a teaching assistant. He was appointed lecturer in Modern History at Bielefeld University in the fall of 2006. From 2011-14 he served as the DAAD Francis L. Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European History (UCL-SSEES). Subsequently, he returned to Bielefeld University, where he submitted his habilitation thesis in 2016. He received the venia legendi in early 2017 and was promoted to the position of senior lecturer. In October 2017 he joined Newcastle University as professor of European history.

So far, Daniel Siemens has published four research monographs, 22 peer-reviewed research articles in leading scientific journals and 28 book chapters on various aspects of modern European history, covering the period from the 19th to the 21st century. His academic work has won several prizes and is translated into four languages, among them Polish and Mandarin. He has also edited or co-edited eight collective volumes and special issues, and he is – together with Jennifer V. Evans and Matt Fitzpatrick – a series editor of the Modern German History Series with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, London. Since 2020, he furthermore serves as an editor of the journal Central European History (CEH).