Forschung & Innovation
Prof. Michael Gehler
Professor, Director of the Institute of Histoy, Jean Monnet Chair of Comparative European Contemporary History and Europe's integration
University of Hildesheim
Expertise areas
Austrian, German and European History, Contemporary History Writing, History of European Integration, History of Empires, Transnational Party Cooperation of Christian Democratic and Conservative Parties in Europe 1945-1979, The end of the first Cold War: 1989 the before and the after
Short biography
Junior & Senior Highschool, Neustadt near Coburg, Bayern (1972-1981) University of Innsbruck, Major: History; Minor: German Philology (1981-1988) Ph.D. (1987) and M.A. (1988, Teacher Training) Research Fellow, Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung – Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Wien (1992-1996) Venia docendi (Habilitation): „Modern and Contemporary History“ (1999)
1996-1999: Research Assistant, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
1999-2006: Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Institute for Contemporary History, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Since 2006: Professor, University of Hildesheim, Institute for History, awarded a "Jean-Monnet Chair" for European History from the EU-Commission
Since 2011: Elected Director of the Historical Commission of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW), Vienna
Since 2013: Director of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Historical Research of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW), Vienna
Links
http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb1/institute/geschichte/
http://www.forschungsprofile-niedersachsen.de/de/recherche/profil.html?id=2399
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/inz/institut-fuer-neuzeit-und-zeitgeschichtsforschung/
http://www.olms.de/search/result.aspx?seriesid=950