Dr. Till Van Rahden

Biography

Till van Rahden holds the Canada Research Chair in German European Studies at Université de Montréal. He has participated in research fellowships at esteemed institutions such as the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz and the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. In 2017, he was a research fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the Institute for Advanced Studies, affiliated with Goethe University. Van Rahden specializes in European history with a focus on the Enlightenment, particularly the complexities surrounding democratic equality, diversity, and the moral conflicts that arise from these themes. He obtained his M.A. in American history from Johns Hopkins University in 1993 and completed his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Bielefeld in 1999, which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The dissertation was published under the title 'Jews Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, Urban Politics Breslau, 1860–1925' in Madison, 2008. He has co-edited several works and contributed essays to various publications, addressing topics related to democracy and historical analysis.

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