Staff:Daniel Siemens

Daniel Siemens is Professor of European History at Newcastle University and has published widely on European and transnational history of the 19^th and 20^th century. After having studied history, literature and law in Potsdam, Montpellier and Berlin, Daniel received his doctorate in modern history from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2006 and the venia legendi from Bielefeld University in early 2017. From 2011 to 2014 he served as the DAAD Francis L. Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL-SSEES). Recent publications include Hinter der Weltbühne. Hermann Budzislawski und das 20. Jahrhundert (Berlin 2022); Entbehrung und Erfüllung: Praktiken von Arbeit, Körper und Konsum in der Geschichte moderner Gesellschaften. Für Thomas Welskopp (Bonn 2021), co-edited with Gleb J. Albert and Frank Wolff.

In 2023, Daniel will be research fellow (fellowship from the Leibniz Research Alliance Value of the Past) at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space and do research on "Communist Anti-Imperialism and The Industrial and Trade Review for India/Asia: Times and Places of Transnational Entanglements between German-Jewish Socialists and Indian Nationalists in 1920s Berlin". During his research stay, he will give a talk on "Anti-Imperialism and The Industrial and Trade Review for India/Asia: Times and Places of Transnational Entanglements in 1920s Berlin".

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