Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer

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Personal Details

Born in 1965
Married with two daughters

Academic Positions

• 2010 to present: Professor of African History, University of Hamburg
• 2010: Declined Stephen Feinstein Chair (endowed) in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Directorship of the Centre of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• 2007-2010: Reader (Senior Associate Professor) in International and Global History, University of Sheffield
  Foundation Director, Sheffield Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence
• 2005-2007: Lecturer in International and Global History, University of Sheffield
• 2004-2005: Lecturer in Global History, University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2002-2004: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX (CEIS 29), Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
• 2000-2002: Visiting Lecturer in African History, University of Kiel

Academic Training and Qualification

• 1987-1993: Reading History, Political Science and German Literature, University of Regensburg
• 1990-1991: Reading Modern History at the University of Oxford; 1991 Master Degree
• 1994-2000: Doctoral Training, University of Freiburg
• 2000: PH.D. University of Freiburg

Service to the Profession

• 2001-2005: Co-Editor, Sehpunkte
• 2004: Scentific Advisor: Exhibition "Namibia-Germany.  A Shared History" (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Köln und DHM, Berlin 
• 2004 to present: Reviewer for Vienna Science and Technolgoy Fund, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, National Endowment of Humanities (USA), Israeli Science Foundation, and various publishers
• 2005-2007: Co-Editor, Sozial. Geschichte
• 2005 to present: President, International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS); Co-Editor, H-Soz-Kult; Senior Editior, Jouranl of Genocide Research (JGR)
• 2006 to present: Advisory Board, Revista de Estudios sobre Genocido (Burenos Aires);  Advisory Board, Interantional Academy for Genocide Prevention (Columbia University, New York)
• 2007 to present: Co-Editor, "Periplus-Studien", LIT-Verlag;  Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Massarce and Genocide (CERI/CNRS Paris); Advisory Board, Auschwitz Institute of Peace and Reconciliation
• 2008 to present: Advisory Board, Centre for Human Rights and Genocide, Rutgens U. New Jersey

Organized Conferences and Workshops

• 2005 "Genocide: Forms, Causes Consequences", Berlin
• 2006 "War, Genocide and Memory. German Colonialism and National Identity", Sheffield
• 2007 "Imperial Biographies", Washington
• 2009 "Genocide: The Future of Prevention. 1st Global Conference on Genocide, Sheffield
• 2011 "'The End ist Where We Start From': Midia Coverage of Genocide and Mass Violence, Sheffield

Membership

• Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
• International Network of Genocide Scholar
• American Historical Association
• Verein von Afrikanisten in Deutschland
• Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte
• Forschungsstiftung für Vergleichende Europäische Überseegeschichte