Akademischer
Rat für nordeuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde / tenured lecturer
on Northern European History and Cultural Studies |
Postal address | Nordeuropa-Institut, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin |
Telefon | +49-(0)30-2093-9746 |
Fax | +49-(0)30-2093-9626/-5325 |
Office address: | Dorotheenstr. 24, house 3, 1st floor, room 3.129 |
Schooling
1972 | Abitur (High School Diploma) in Lübeck |
1974-1980 | Student in German, History, Scandinavian Studies, Sociology and Educational Sciences at the University of Kiel. State Exam as high school teacher in the subjects German and History |
1987 | Dr. phil (Ph. D.) at the University of Kiel in History with minors in German and Educational Science |
Civil service
1973-1974 at the youth hostel in Kiel
Job experience
1978-1980 Student research assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Institute for Educational Sciences and at the Institute for German Literature, Kiel. Duties included library work and research on German and Northern European Literature of the 17th and 18th century.
1980-1985 Graduate teaching and research assistant (wiss. Assistent) in Northern European History at the History department in Kiel. Dissertation research on early Swedish migration to the USA. Co-founder of the Center on Northern European Studies, an interdisciplinary working group.
1985-1987 Instructor (Lehrbeauftragter) for "Swedish for Historians" at the University of Kiel.
1986-1988 Apprenticeship in publishing (Verlagsbuchhändler) at the Ernst-Kabel-Verlag, Hamburg.
1988-1990 Graduate research assistant at the Institute for Science Education (IPN), Kiel, working on the historical aspects of an interdisciplinary research project on curriculum politics in Danmark, Prussia, and Schleswig-Holstein in the 19th century. Co-organized a number of international conferences. Responsible for financial affairs of the project.
1990-1994 Tenured lecturer (Akademischer Rat) on Scandinavian Studies at the Free University, Berlin. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of NORDEUROPAforum, a quarterly magazine on Northern European culture, politics, and economics. Erasmus program coordinator (an EEC-sponsored student and teacher exchange program)
1994- Tenured lecturer for Northern European History and Scandinavian Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Same duties as at the Free University, as the department was moved from the Free University to the Humboldt University.
Others
Research visits in Scandinavia (summer 1972), USA (summer 1976, winter 1984/85), and Sweden (spring 1982, summer 1986, 1992 and 1997).
Between 1983 and 1985 I was member of the "American Theater Workshop" at the Kiel University.
As a student and graduate teaching assistant I was active in the university political life.
My wife Debora Weber-Wulff is a professor for software engineering and programming languages at the University for Applied Science and Technology in Berlin.
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