Karsten Brüggemann
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Karsten Brüggemann (born December 1, 1965) is a German historian. Since 2024 he has been professor at Tallinn University, School of Humanities. His research interests include history, culture and society.[1]
Topics of his publications include Baltic and Russian/Soviet common history, nationalism(s) in empires, Stalinist culture, the history of sport and tourism, and memory conflicts between the Baltic states and the Russia.[2]
Education
[edit]- 2012–2013: University of Giessen, Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies, habilitation with the study a study on the perception of the Baltic provinces in Russian imperial culture[3] published in 2018 under the title Licht und Luft des Imperiums. Legimitations- und Repräsentationsstrategien russischer Herrschaft in den Ostseeprovinzen im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert[4]
- 1994–1999: University of Hamburg, Faculty of Philosophy, History Department, PhD (summa cum laude)[1] with Die Gründung der Republik Estland und das Ende des "Einen und Unteilbaren Russland". Die Petrograder Front des Russischen Bürgerkriegs 1918-1920 (published as monograph in 2002[3])
- 1986–1993: University of Hamburg, Faculty of Philosophy, MA in History and Slavic literature
Awards
[edit]- 2022: Estonian State Award in Humanities[1]
- 2012: Special prize for best monograph "Tallinn Eine kleine Geschichte" (co-authored with Ralph Tuchtenhagen) by Tallinn University[1]