Institute of Modern History

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