Prof. Dr. Benjamin Ziemann FRHistS
Professor in Modern History, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Education
2004 Habilitation, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1996 Dr. phil., summa cum laude, Universität Bielefeld
1991 M.A. in History and Philosophy, summa cum laude, Freie Universität Berlin
Academic Employment
2005- Lecturer in Modern History (2008- Reader in Modern History), University of Sheffield
2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2005 Visiting Lecturer, International University Bremen
1996-2004 Assistant Professor, Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Professional Activities
2009- Member of the editorial board of the journal First World War Studies
2008- Founding Member of the European Network of Peace Historians
2007- Member of the editorial board of the Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und
Kulturgeschichte (Swiss Journal for Religious and Cultural History)
2007- Member of the editorial board of the journal Peace & Change
2004- Review editor, H-Soz-Kult
2000- Co-editor (2002-2008: Managing Co-editor): Frieden und Krieg. Beiträge zur Historischen
Friedensforschung
1998-2000 Vice chairman of the Association for Historical Peace Research (Arbeitskreis Historische
Friedensforschung)
Service to the Profession
Peer-review referee for manuscripts submitted to the journals War in History, L’Homme. Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, German History, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, Zeithistorische Forschungen, Mobilization. An International Journal
Membership of Learned Societies
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Arbeitskreis für Historische Friedensforschung (Association for Historical Peace Research)
German History Society
Fellowships
2009 Visiting Scholar at the Humboldt University Berlin, SFB 640 ‘Representations of Social Order’
2006 Visiting Scholar, Nobel Institute Oslo
2003-2004 Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at the University of York
(England), Department of History
2000 Bennigsen-Foerder Award by the Ministry for School, Continuing Education, Science and
Research in NRW
1994 Grant by the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France
1992-1994 Fellowship by the Graduiertenkolleg Sozialgeschichte [Graduate School for Social History],
Universität Bielefeld