Michael Goebel

Michael Goebel (born 1976) is a German historian. Since 2018, he has been the Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Biography

Born in Munich, Goebel studied History at Freie Universität Berlin and University College London, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006.[1] 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. [2] After four years as "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter", Freie Universität Berlin appointed him as a professor in June 2015.[3] 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.[4] He is one of the founders of the Global Urban History blog[5] and a member of the Graduate School Global Intellectual History at Freie Universität Berlin.[6]

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.[7] 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.”[8] The book won the 2016 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, awarded by the American Historical Association.[9] 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.’” [10]

Original works
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References
  1. Timothy Nunan, “City of Light, City of Revolution: Walking the Streets of Anti-Imperial Paris with Michael Goebel,” Toynbee Prize Foundation, October 7, 2015
  2. Short CV on faculty website
  3. Freie Universität Berlin, Press Release, June 5, 2015
  4. http://graduateinstitute.ch/home/study/faculty/professors.html/_/people/goebel
  5. Josh Allen, “Global Urban History: A Discussion with Michael Goebel,” May 13, 2016
  6. Graduate School Global Intellectual History, Faculty
  7. Mariano Ben Plotkin, Review of Argentina’s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011)
  8. Ian Birchall, “Capital of Pariahs,” New Left Review 98, March/April 2016
  9. Jerry Bentley Prize Recipients
  10. “All Things Transregional: In Conversation with Michael Goebel,” June 13, 2016
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