Job title:
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Freiburg
Bio/CV:
Friedemann Pestel is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Freiburg.
He studied history, French literature, and educational sciences at the University of Jena and the École normale supérieure in Paris. In 2013, he obtained his PhD from the University of Freiburg with a study on French émigrés in the Age of Revolutions. Since 2013, he has been teaching European history at Freiburg where he also obtained his habilitation in 2022. Pestel has held fellowships at the German Historical Institutes in Paris and London (2009‒2011), the Universities of Vienna (2015/16), Bordeaux (2019), and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2020/21). Between 2018 and 2021, he was Scholar in Residence with the Genshagen Foundation. In 2022/23, he was a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies as well as a Guest Scholar at the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9481-4010
Research interests:
Pestel’s research interests and publications cover European and Atlantic history in a global perspective from the 18th to the 21st century. His work focuses on the French and Haitian Revolutions, political migration in the Age of Revolutions, the history of international classical musical life and global musical mobility, as well as ideas of Europe, politics of history, and memory studies.
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