{"id":11784,"date":"2018-09-20T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/michael-goebel-pierre-du-bois-chair-europe-and-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:48:47","slug":"michael-goebel-pierre-du-bois-chair-europe-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/chaire-pierre-du-bois\/michael-goebel-pierre-du-bois-chair-europe-and-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaire Pierre du Bois"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In September 2018 the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation inaugurated a new position titled Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World<\/strong><\/a>. The new position is an illustration of the commitment the Pierre du Bois Foundation has to the advancement of historical research and teaching at the Graduate Institute.<\/p>\n

The current holder of the Chair is Professor Stella Ghervas.<\/p>\n

Professor Stella Ghervas<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ghervas-Gervas-Profil.jpg\"Stella Gh<\/span>ervas is a historian of Europe whose research focuses on intellectual and international history, with particular attention to peace and peacemaking, ideas in politics, diplomacy, and international (dis)order. Her work explores Europe\u2019s engagement with the wider world, Russia and Eurasia, including maritime and oceanic history, and transnational political communities formed within and beyond empires. She has held teaching, research, and visiting positions on four continents, from Australia to the United Kingdom and Russia. She is also Professor and Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The first holder of the Chair was Professor Michael Goebel, from 2018 to 2021. Since September 2021, he has been the Einstein Professor of Global History at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin.<\/p>\n

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Professor Michael Goebel<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Professor Michael Goebel was the first holder of the Pierre du Bois Chair. Prior to joining the Institute in 2018, Michael Goebel was Associate Professor of Global History at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. His latest book, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris\u00a0<\/em>and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism,<\/em><\/a> was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.\u00a0 The book examines the relationship between nationalist movements and their leaders many of whom spent their intellectually formative years in European centers. An interview about the book can be viewed here<\/a>. Additionally, the book won the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History<\/a> from the American Historical Association in 2016.<\/p>\n

Michael Goebel began as an intellectual historian of Latin America, but he has grown increasingly interested in the intersection of global and urban history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u00a0In July 2014 he received his\u00a0Habilitation<\/em>\u00a0in Modern History. In 2012\u201313 he was a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and in 2008\u201311 Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. The latter led to his first book titled Argentina\u2019s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History\u00a0<\/a><\/em>published in 2011 by\u00a0Liverpool University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His articles on the history of migration and the global history of nationalism have appeared in journals such as\u00a0The American Historical Review<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Past and Present<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0Geschichte und Gesellschaft<\/em><\/a>. Additionally, Professor Michael Goebel is a co-founder of the\u00a0Global Urban History<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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