Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer
Professor of Southeast and East European History
- Speaker of the GS OSES Regensburg -
Contact
Universität Regensburg
Institute for History
Landshuter Straße 4
93047 Regensburg
Germany
+49 (0)941 / 943-5475 +49 (0)941 / 943-5032 ulf.brunnbauer@geschichte.uni-regensburg.de Webprofile (1) Webprofile (2)
Main Research Areas
- Social history and historical anthropology of Southeastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries; in particular migration history, history of family and kinship, Muslim minorities, state socialism
- Nation-building in the Balkans
- History of history writing in Southeastern Europe
Curriculum Vitae
Born 1970 in Kirchdorf a.d. Krems (Austria). After his PhD at the University of Graz in 1999 (with a dissertation on the social and environmental history of the Rhodopi Mountains), Ulf Brunnbauer received a habilitation in East and Southeast as well as Modern History from the Free University of Berlin in 2006 (with a book on ideology and social life in communist Bulgaria). In 2008 he was appointed Chair of History of Southeastern and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg. Also in 2008, he became director of the then Südost-Institut, which was one of the predecessors of today’s Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. From 2012 to 2017 Ulf Brunnbauer was managing director of IOS and as of July 2017, he is its first full-time academic director.
Editorships
- Co-editor Südosteuropäische Arbeiten
- Co-editor Südost-Forschungen
- Co-editor Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropas
- Co-editor DigiOst
- Co-editor Schnittstellen. Studien zum östlichen und südöstlichen Europa
- Co-editor Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas
- Editorial Board Member of Bulgarian Ethnology
- Editorial Board Member of Central Europe
- Editorial Board Member of Debatte: review of contemporary German affairs
- Editorial Board Member of Dve domovini/Two homelands (Ljubljana)
- Editorial Board Member of Ethnologia Balkanica
- Editorial Board Member of Etnološka tribina / Ethnological Forum
- Editorial Board Member of Études Balkanique
- Editorial Board Member of History of Communism in Europe (2010–2012)
- Editorial Board Member of Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung
- Editorial Board Member of Tabula. Journal of the Department of Humanities
Positions, Assignments and Memberships
- Managing Director of the Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg
- Member of Senate of the University of Regensburg
- Speaker and Principal Invesigator of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
- Leader of the Study Group Literature - Narrativity - Discourse
- Former Leader of the Study Group Migration, Transfers, Cultural Contact
- Advisory Board Member of BAYHOST (Regensburg)
- Advisory Board Member of the Center for Southeast European Studies (Graz)
- Advisory Board Member of the Croatian Institute of History (Zagreb)
- Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Culture (Tübingen)
- Member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
- Member of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO)
- Member of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (SOG)
- Member of the Verband der Osteuropahistoriker/innen (VOH) e.V.
- Member of the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA)
- Member of the Johann Gottfried Herder-Forschungsrat
- Member of the Deutscher Hochschulverband