Prof. Dr. Sven Trakulhun
Assistant Professor for Modern History of Asia
University of Zurich
Wiesenstrasse 7-9
Room WIE F-03
CH-8008 Zürich
T: +41 44 63 45224
E: sven.trakulhun{at}uzh.ch
Personal Background
Graduate Studies of History, Philosophy and Sociology, Master in History at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (1996); PhD Scholarship at the Graduiertenkolleg "Didaktik des Fremdverstehens" at the JLU Gießen (1997-2000); Doctorate in History with Prof. Günther Lottes (2000). Visiting Researcher at the Research Center "Europäische Aufklärung e. V.", Potsdam (2001/2003). Lecturer at the History Department of the University of Potsdam (2003-2004), at the "Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften" der JLU Gießen (2005-2006), at the National University of Ireland, Galway (2005-2007) and at the University of Konstanz (2005/2006). IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Moore Institute, NUI, Galway (2004-2005); Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellow of the European Union (2005-2007). Senior Researcher of the History Department of the University of Konstanz at the Chair of Prof. Jürgen Osterhammel (2008); Habilitation (2012).
Research Interests
History of Thailand and Southeast Asia, History of the European Expansion in Asia, Transnational History of Ideas, History of Transfers between Europe and Asia
Research Project
Asian Revolutions. Conceptions of political change in the Orient, 1644-1818