Gregor Thum (born 2 May 1967 in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

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) is a German-American historian of Central and Eastern Europe. From 1988 through 1995, Thum studied history and Slavic studies at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

. From 1995 to 2001, he was a lecturer at professor

Karl Schlögel Karl Schlögel (born 7 March 1948 in Hawangen Hawangen is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany, with about 1,254 inhabitants. Hawangen is situated east of Memmingen. The town has a municipal association with ...

's chair for East European history at

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. There he worked on a Ph.D. thesis about the transformation of German Breslau into Polish Wrocław from 1945 onwards. Completed in 2002 and published as a book the following year, the thesis was very successful on the general book market by the standards of historical monographies. Thum received several awards in both Germany and Poland. Thum held the position of a DAAD visiting assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2003-2008) and DAAD associate professor at the University of Washington (2010-2011). From 2008 to 2010, he was a Junior Fellow at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

's Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). Since 2012, he has been assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2014, he has served as the History Department's Director of Graduate Studies. He is currently working on a research project titled "Mastering the East. The German Frontier from 1800 to the Present". In 2007, Thum was awarded the honorary title "Ambassador of Wrocław" by the local edition of

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, prevailing over prominent nominees like

Lech Janerka Lech Andrzej Janerka (born 2 May 1953 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that e ...

, Marek Krajewski, Maciej Łagiewski, Jan Miodek, and

Bogdan Zdrojewski Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski (born 18 May 1957) is a Polish politician, mayor of Wrocław from 1990 to 2001, and Minister of Culture and National Heritage from 2007 till 2014. He has also been member of the Polish and of the European Parliament. ...

."Nominowani do tytułu Ambasadora Wrocławia", ''Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław'', 2007-05-09, retrieved 2008-07-0

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Bibliography

*1998 (ed. with Katharina Kucher, Karl Schlögel, Bernhard Suchy): ''Chronik russischen Lebens in Deutschland, 1918-1941'' Chronicle of Russian Life in Germany, 1918-1941 Berlin: Akademie Verlag, *2003: ''Die fremde Stadt. Breslau nach 1945'', Berlin: Siedler, (Polish ed. ''Obce miasto: Wrocław 1945 i potem'', Wrocław: Via Nova; English ed.
''Uprooted: How Breslau became Wroclaw''
Princeton University Press, 2011, ) *2006 (ed.): ''Traumland Osten. Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen Europa im 20. Jahrhundert'' reamland East. German Images of Eastern Europe in the 20th century Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, *2012 (ed. with Maurus Reinkowski): ''Helpless Imperialists. Imperial Failure, Fear, and Radicalization'', Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, *2013 (ed. with Katharina Kucher, Sören Urbansky): ''Stille Revolutionen. Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989'', Frankfurt a.M.: Campus,

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