Main Research Areas
- History of Russia from the Middle Ages to the 20th century
- Russia in the Age of Enlightenment
- History of science and technology as well as environmental history of Central and Eastern Europe
- Popular Autobiographics / biography research
- Historiography
- Religious practices
Curriculum Vitae
Since October 2016, Julia Herzberg holds the professorship for the History of East Central Europe / Russia in the Pre-Modern Period, which is based both at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich and at the University of Regensburg (UR). As undergraduate student Herzberg has studied German, History and Russian in Cologne, Wolgograd and Moscow. She got her Ph.D. at the University of Bielefeld for a dissertation thesis about Study on rural autobiography between the czarist Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Afterwards, she worked as a research assistant at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich and since October 2013 as a research assistant at the Chair of Modern and Eastern European History at the University of Freiburg. From 2017 until 2023, Herzberg was member of the Graduate School.
Positions, Assignments and Memberships
- Member European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
- Member Zentrums für Biografik