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Marcus Funck studied History, Comparative Literature, Sociology, and Canadian Studies in Germany and Canada. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies and a Master of Arts in History, receiving his doctorate from TU Berlin in 2003. He was an assistant at Marburg University and joined York University in Toronto in 2006, serving at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies. In 2011, he became an associate professor at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung at TU Berlin, where he serves as the graduate program director for the master's program in Interdisciplinary Antisemitism Studies. His research interests encompass a wide range of topics including modern German and European transatlantic history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of the German nobility, military history, and urban history. His current focus is on populist movements in the Western world and German concepts of 'Volk' and 'identity', along with the history of political philosophy and multiculturalism. Marcus regularly comments on current political affairs in public discussions across a wide range of media.
Administered by the Department of Political and Social Sciences.