Michael Goebel

Michael Goebel (born 1976) is a German historian. Since 2021, he has been Einstein Professor of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.

Biography

Born in Munich, Goebel studied History at Freie Universität Berlin and University College London, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006.Timothy Nunan, “City of Light, City of Revolution: Walking the Streets of Anti-Imperial Paris with Michael Goebel,” ''Toynbee Prize Foundation'', October 7, 2015
/ref> He subsequently held a Past & Present Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, a Marie Curie Fellowship at the European University Institute, and a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at Harvard University.Short CV on faculty website
/ref> After four years as "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter", Freie Universität Berlin appointed him as a professor in June 2015.Freie Universität Berlin, Press Release, June 5, 2015
/ref> In 2018 he became the holder of the Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is one of the founders of the Global Urban History blogJosh Allen, “Global Urban History: A Discussion with Michael Goebel,” May 13, 2016
/ref> and a member of the Graduate School ''Global Intellectual History'' at Freie Universität Berlin.Graduate School ''Global Intellectual History'', Faculty
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Goebel's main research interests are the histories of nationalism, of migration, and of cities. Trained in the intellectual history of Latin America, his first book dealt with nationalism and the political use of history in twentieth-century Argentina.Mariano Ben Plotkin, Review of ''Argentina’s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History'' (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011)
/ref> However, his second book, ''Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism'', deals with the urban history of Paris as the “‘social bedrock’ for the formation of an anti-imperialist consciousness that transformed the world after 1945.”Ian Birchall, “Capital of Pariahs,” ''New Left Review'' 98, March/April 2016
/ref> The book won the 2016 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, awarded by the American Historical Association.Jerry Bentley Prize Recipients
/ref> Even though the book champions the benefits of “global history,” Goebel elsewhere warned that an “over-endearment with phenomena and historical explanations that cross national, and now regional, boundaries (…) can lead to unconvincing historical accounts, or narratives that drown questions of causality in a never-ending assemblage of sparkly anecdotes about ‘entanglement.’” “All Things Transregional: In Conversation with Michael Goebel,” June 13, 2016
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Original works

*
Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism
' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
* edited with Nicola Foote:
Immigration and National Identities in Latin America
' (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014).
*
Overlapping Geographies of Belonging: Migrations, Regions, and Nations in the Western South Atlantic
' (Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 2013).
*
La Argentina partida: nacionalismos y políticas de la historia
' (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2013).
*
Argentina’s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History
' (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011).

References

External links

Publications on academia.edu


Interview about ''Anti-Imperial Metropolis''


Interview about ''Anti-Imperial Metropolis'' for ''New Books in French Studies''


Interview about ''Anti-Imperial Metropolis'' for the ''Toynbee Prize Foundation''


Interview about the state of urban history


Interview about global and transregional history

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1976 births
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
Historians of Latin America
21st-century German historians
Living people
Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies