Cologne Bonn Region
Jürgen Elvert is Jean Monnet Professor for European History and Professor of Modern History and History of European Integration at the University of Cologne (since 2001). He has been visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck in 1996/97, Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn from 1999 to 2005 and Senior Fellow-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies (AIAS) of the University of Aarhus/Denmark (from October 2014 to March 2016). After his military service in the German Navy and employment in the plant-and shipbuilding industry he studied History, English Philology, Educational Science and Sociology in Kiel and at Queen’s University, Belfast, and started his academic career as lecturer at the Christan-Albrechts-University, Kiel, where he stayed until 1999. His main areas of interest are: Modern European and European integration history, History of the British Isles, Intellectual and Cultural history and Maritime History. He is the responsible editor of two scholarly journals and two academic book series. He has been president of the Ranke-Gesellschaft, Vereinigung für Geschichte im öffentlichen Leben e.V., since 2000 (www.ranke-gesellschaft.de) and is member of various scholarly institutions. He also works regularly as expert and referee for numerous European institutions and foundations.
Univ.-Prof.
Senior Co-Fund Fellow
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