Prof Dr. Alexander Engel (currently on leave)

Interests

Co-organizer (with Prof. Dr. Nina Kleinöder) of the the DFG-funded reasearch network "(Post)-Colonial Business History
Handbook (jointly with Eva Brugger): Colonial economies [in German]
Chapter for "Oxford Handbook of Commodity History"

2020/02: Habilitation at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Göttingen University, Venia Legendi for "Economic and Social History"
2007/09: PhD (summa cum laude) at the Faculty for Humanities, Göttingen University. Thesis: Colours of globalization. Transformations of the global dyestuffs market from the late middle ages until the early 20th century. Supervisor/Examiner: Prof. Dr. H. Berghoff, Prof. Dr. K.H. Kaufhold, Prof. Dr. J. Schlumbohm
2000/12: Master of Education in History and Mathematics, Göttingen University ("Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien in den Fächern Geschichte und Mathematik"). Thesis: The sales of the Swiss merchant bank Amman in Schaffhausen, 1748-1779. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. K. H. Kaufhold

Since 2023/10: Interim Professor for Modern and Contemporary History, LMU Munich
2023/04 — 2023/07: Guest Professor for Global Economic and Social History, University of Vienna
2020/09 — 2021/02: Interim Professor for Modern and Contemporary European History, University of Flensburg
2019/03 — 2023/07: Researcher and lecturer at the Departement of History and the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel
Since 2017/09: Research assistant and lecturer, Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Göttingen (currently on leave)
2011/09 — 2012/08: John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2010/08 — 2017/08: Akademischer Rat auf Zeit [Academic Councilor, comparable to Assistant Professor], Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Göttingen
2009/10 — 2009/12: Günter Schmöders Fellow [research stays in New York, Chicago, and Washington]
2008/10 — 12: Guest Lecturer at Zürich University
2004/08 — 2006/11: Research project "The Colours of Globalisation. Structural change of the world market for dyestuffs, 1580-1914", funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation
2003/05 — 09: PhD stipendiary at the German Historical Institute, London
2001/04 — 2010/07: Research assistant and lecturer, Institute for Economic and Social History (Prof. Berghoff), University of Göttingen

Admission to the Wirtschaftshistorischer Ausschuss im Verein für Socialpolitik [2015]
John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship 2011/12, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Günter Schmölders Fellowship 2009
[Post-doctoral fellowship to support transatlantic scholarly exchange; research stays in New York, Chicago, Washington/D.C.]
K. Austin Kerr Prize 2009
[Best first paper of a new scholar at an Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference]
Friedrich-Lütge-Preis 2009
[Dissertation prize of the German Society for Social and Economic History]
Shortlisted for the Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship 2009/10 of Harvard Business School
Research scholarship of the German Historical Institute, London [2003/05-09]

2019/04 — 2019/09: Member of the Senate Committee for Development and Financial Planning and in the Central Committee for Teaching and Learning, Göttingen University
2018/10 — 2019/09: Member of the Committee for Elections, Göttingen University
2017/03 — 2019/09: Acting member of the Senate, the Research Committee of the Senate, and (until 2019/03) the Central Committee for Teaching and Learning, Göttingen University
2014/10 — 2019/09: Member of the Research Commission, Faculty of Economics, Göttingen University
2011/04 — 2019/09: Member of the Board, Department for Economics, Göttingen University
2011/04 — 2011/10: Member of the Graduate Committee, Faculty of Economics, Göttingen University
2010/11 — 2011/11: Member of the task group "Works agreement on working hours of the scientific staff",
Göttingen University
2010/04 — 2019/09: Member of the Academic Commission, Faculty of Economics, Göttingen University
2009/04 — 2011/03: Member of the Finance Committee, Faculty of Economics, Göttingen University
2009/04 — 2017/04: Member of the Faculty Council (since 2013/04: acting member), Faculty of Economics, Göttingen University
2008/11 — 2009/09: Study program commissioner ("Studiengangsbeauftragter") for the Historical sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University