Curriculum Vitae Kiran Klaus Patel Academic Positions Since 9/2011 Professor and Chair of European and Global History, Maastricht University (2011-2015 and again since 2018: Head of the Department of History; 2016-2017: Associate Dean for Research; since 2015 Jean Monnet Chair) 9/2007-8/2011 Professor at the European, Florence (Joint Chair; Department of History and Civilisation & Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) 11/2002-8/2007 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor), Department of History, Humboldt University, Berlin 8/2000-10/2002 Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of History, Humboldt University, Berlin Degrees 2010 Habilitation, University Duisburg-Essen 2001 Dr. phil., Humboldt University Berlin (summa cum laude) 1997 M.A., Humboldt University Berlin (with highest distinction) Education 1994-1997 Humboldt University Berlin 1992-1994 Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg Scholarships, Awards, Fellowships 7/17 WHA Bentley Book Prize 1-2/17 Visiting Professor, Départment d histoire, Sciences Po, Paris 9/15- Jean Monnet Chair 6/15- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1
9/14-8/15 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor, London School of Economics & German Historical Institute London 10/2012-9/2016 Permanent Senior Fellow, DFG-funded Research Group The Transformative Power of Europe, Free University Berlin 12/2012-12/2015 Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative in Global History, Harvard University 1-7/2013 Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Modern European History Research Centre, University of Oxford 8-11/2012 Non-Resident Affiliation, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University 5/2012 Research grant, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg 3/2012 Karl Ferdinand Werner Fellow, German Historical Institute, Paris 8-11/2011 Non-Resident Affiliation, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University 5/2011 Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 8/2010-8/2011 Honorary Professor at Maastricht University 6-7/2010 Guest Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany 8-9/2009 Visiting Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University 9/2006-8/2007 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University 2004 Tiburtius Dissertation Award 2002 Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz, Brussels 1999 Scholarship, awarded by German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 1998-2001 Fellowship of the graduate school: Gesellschaftsvergleich in historischer, soziologischer und ethnologischer Perspektive, Berlin 1994-2000 Scholarships for undergraduate (4 years) and graduate studies (2 years), awarded by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2
Project Management/Research Grants since 2003 Period Format & Focus Funders The Berlin Years 2003-2010 Research Project: Competing Modernities The United States of America and Germany since 1890 (Co-director with Christof Mauch) 2004 Public Lecture Series: Europa im Sinn Einigungsideen im Kalten Krieg (Thinking about Europe: Ideas of Cooperation during the Cold War) (Organizer in Cooperation with the Evangelische Akademie Berlin) 2005 International Workshop: Europeanisation and History: Concepts, Conflicts, Cohesion (Organizer, with Henning Grunwald & Christoph Jahr) 2006-2009 Research Project: Imagined Europeans Wissenschaftliche Konstruktionen des Homo Europaeus (The Scientific Construction of Homo Europaeus) (Overall project director and director of one of four subprojects. The three other sub-projects located at the Department for European Anthropology, Humboldt University Berlin; Leipzig University; German Museum, Berlin) 2006-2008 Research Training Group: Multilevel Constitutionalism: European Experiences and Global Perspectives (Graduiertenkolleg: Verfassung jenseits des Staates, Humboldt University Berlin) (Co-applicant & steering board member; main applicant: Ingolf Pernice) 2006-2009 Research Project: (De-)Europeanisation and History: Concepts, Conflicts, Cohesion (Director of the German side of a binational research network. British side located at the University of Oxford, directed by Martin Conway and funded by the British AHRC) 2006-2007 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship Research Fellowship at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University Robert Bosch Foundation/German Historical Institute, Washington/ Humboldt University Berlin Evangelische Akademie Berlin/Innovation Funds of the Vice-President for Research at Humboldt University Berlin Fritz Thyssen Foundation German Ministry of Science and Education German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) The Florence Years 2007-2009 Conference and Publication Project The History of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945 (Organizer) 2009-2013 Conference and Publication Project EU Competition Law in Legal and Historical Perspectives (Organizer, together with Heike Schweitzer) 2010-2012 Conference and Publication Project The EU, its Cultural Capitals, and the Effects of Europeanization (Organizer) 3
2010-2013 Conference and Publication Project The Transatlantic Dimensions of European Integration in the 1980s (Organizer, supported by Kenneth Weisbrode as postdoc) 2011-2016 Conference and Publication Project Social Engineering during the Interwar Period (Organizer, with Sven Reichardt) The Maastricht Years 2011-2013 Conference and Publication Project: The Maastricht Treaty: 20 Years On (Organizer, with Michael Geary and Carine Germond) 2012-2017 Permanent Senior Fellow, Research Group The Transformative Power of Europe, Free University Berlin (Directed by Tanja Börzel & Thomas Risse) (City of Maastricht/University Fund Limburg) 2013-2017 Research Project: The History of the Reich Ministry of Labour (Reichsarbeitsministerium) in the Nazi Period (Joint research project with: Alexander Nützenadel (director), Rüdiger Hachtmann, Elizabeth Harvey, Sandrine Kott & Michael Wildt and a group of 2 postdocs and 4 PhD students) 2014-2015 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor at the German Historical Institute London and the London School of Economics 2014-2017 Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence HOMER: From History to Memory Culture: Narratives of the European Council Summits between The Hague (1969), Maastricht (1991), and Lisbon (2009) (Co-Director, together with Jürgen Mittag, Sophie Vanhoonacker and Wolfgang Wessels) 2015-2018 Jean Monnet Chair For Research and Teaching on the History of European Integration Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Gerda Henkel Foundation/Max Weber Foundation/London School of Economics Erasmus+ Program of the EU Erasmus+ Program of the EU and European University Institute Other professional functions Member of the Editorial Board of Contemporary European History Dokupedia Zeitgeschichte Geschichte und Gesellschaft Journal of European Integration History Monde(s): Histoire, Espaces, Relations New Global Studies Ventunesimo secolo Member of the Groupe de Liaison des Historiens auprès de la Commission des Communautés européennes Advisory Board of the Memorial Site Vogelsang, a former Nazi Training Camp International Historians Commission on the history of the German Ministry of Labour during the Third Reich 4
Board of the Dutch Research School Political History (Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis) International Advisory Board of the Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung Advisory Board of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki s Network for European Studies Advisory Board of the Franco-German project Saisir l Europe Liaison professor of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Member of the Arbeitskreis Rechtswissenschaft und Zeitgeschichte at the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz Member of the Arbeitskreis Moderne Sozialgeschichte Peer reviewer for (selection; institutions): the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, British Academy, Canada Council for the Arts, Danish Council for Independent Research, Dutch Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area), European Research Council, European Science Foundation, German Research Council (DFG), Leibniz Community, Royal Irish Academy, the Swiss National Science Foundation, Thyssen Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin as well as for Berghahn Books, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave and Princeton University Press. Peer reviewer for (selection; journals): American Historical Review, Contemporary European History; European Review of History; Journal of American History, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Modern European History; Vierteljahrshefte für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Zeithistorische Forschungen; Journal of Common Market Studies. 5