Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Kiran Klaus Patel holds the chair of European history at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU). Before joining LMU, he held chairs at Maastricht University in the Netherlands (2011-2019) and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2007-2011), and an assistant professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin (2002-2007). He has been (inter alia) a visiting fellow/professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris, the Free University of Berlin, Freiburg University, Harvard University, the London School of Economics, Sciences Po in Paris and the University of Oxford. His teaching and research focuses on issues of European and US American history. Comparative, transnational, and global approaches feature prominently in his work. This is also seen in his current projects: As Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project InechO he investigates the question how discontinued International Organizations have shaped European Governance since the 1910s. As part of the Kolleg Forschungsgruppe Universalism and Particularism he studies the complex ways in which universalist and particularist models of order were transmitted and layered on each other in European contemporary history. Last but not least the project ELEMENT studies the History of EC/EU environmental policy and aims at providing the first comprehensive, historically grounded, long-term analysis of the drivers and reasons for the EC/EU’s acquisition of a key role in environmental policy-making. Patel is a member of the editorial boards of European History Review; the Journal of European Integration History; Monde(s): Histoire, Espaces, Relations; New Global Studies; Ventunesimo secolo and Docupedia Zeitgeschichte.