{"id":15364,"date":"2016-09-19T16:07:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=15364"},"modified":"2024-07-03T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T00:20:15","slug":"till-van-rahden","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/till-van-rahden\/","title":{"rendered":"Till van Rahden"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Till van Rahden holds the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. In 2016, he held research fellowships at the \u201cLeibniz Institute for European History\u201d, Mainz, and the \u201cInstitut f\u00fcr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen\u201d, Vienna. In 2017, he was a research fellow at the \u201cForschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften,\u201d an Institute for Advanced Studies affiliated with the Goethe University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He specializes in European history since the Enlightenment and is interested in the tension between the elusive promise of democratic equality and the recurrent presence of diversity and moral conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1993, he received an M.A. in American history from The Johns Hopkins University, and in 1999, he completed his dissertation at the University of Bielefeld which received the \u201cFraenkel Prize in Contemporary History\u201d and was published as&nbsp;<em>Jews and other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925<\/em>&nbsp;(Madison, 2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has co-edited&nbsp;<em>Juden, B\u00fcrger, Deutsche: Zur Geschichte von Vielfalt und Differenz 1800-1933<\/em>&nbsp;(T\u00fcbingen, 2001),&nbsp;<em>Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg<\/em>&nbsp;(G\u00f6ttingen, 2010), and&nbsp;<em>Autorit\u00e4t: Krise, Konstruktion und Konjunktur<\/em>&nbsp;(Munich, 2016).&nbsp;Recent essays include: \u201cClumsy Democrats: Demons and Devils in Postwar Germany,\u201d in Paul Nolte ed., <em>Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century: Transfer and Transformation<\/em> (Munich, 2016), and \u201cLumpen sammeln: Siegfried Kracauer und die Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts,\u201d in <em>Historische Zeitschrift<\/em> 305 (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15365,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Till","cu_people_last_name":"van Rahden","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[67],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-15364","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-research-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"M.A. (Johns Hopkins), Ph.D. (Bielefeld)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"till.van.rahden@umontreal.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"http:\/\/www.irtg-diversity.com\/index.php?page=people&person=till_van_rahden&id=50","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/15364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/15364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17055,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/15364\/revisions\/17055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}