Andreas Eckert#
| Membership Number: | 3269 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://rework.hu-berlin.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009/08 - present Director of the International Research Centre "Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History", Humboldt University Berlin
- 2008/04-2009/09 Head of Department, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
- since 2007/04 Professor and Chair of African History, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2007/01-07 Visiting Professor, Department of History, Harvard University
- 2006/10-12 Visiting Professor, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
- 2005/08-10 Visiting Professor African Studies Center, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 2004/04-2006/09 Dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Hamburg
- 2002/09-2007/03 Professor of Modern History (Focus: African History), University of Hamburg
- 2002/01-04 Visiting Professor, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
- 1995/03-2002/09 Research Fellow and Assistant Professor, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin (incl. interruptions for diverse fellowships & grants)
Fields of Scholarship
- African history in the 19th and 20th century (with a focus on the history of the state, urbanisation, historiography)
- Comparative history of colonialism
- History of work/labour history
- Global history
Honours and Awards
- 2012: Guest Fellowship Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study
- 2011: Elected chairperson "Forum Transregionale Studien"
- 2009: Board International African Institute, London
- 2009: Major Grant from the German Ministry for Research and Education for the Institute "Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History" (2009-2015, 1,7 € per annum)
- 2008: Invitation to a Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study (declined)
- 2007: Elected chairperson "Arbeitskreis für Moderne Sozialgeschichte"
- 2004: Elected Managing Editor of the Journal of African History (Cambridge University Press) (until 2011)
- 2000: Fellow Royal Historical Society
