Name Riccardo Bavaj | Education University of Bonn | |
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Riccardo Bavaj (born 1976 in Aachen) is a German historian.
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Career
Riccardo Bavaj studied Medieval and Modern History, Eastern European History and Economics at the Universities of Bonn and Southampton. He earned his Master’s degree in 2001 and was awarded a Ph.D. in 2004. After working as a research fellow at the Westphalian Institute for Regional Studies in Munster he took up a position at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2005, teaching German and European contemporary history.
From 2009 to 2011 Riccardo Bavaj was conducting research in the United States of America as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During that time he was a visiting professor at Saint Louis University.
Awards
From 2002 to 2004 Riccardo Bavaj was recipient of a doctoral stipend from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, before he received a research fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in 2005. Since 2006 and 2007, respectively, he has been a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. In 2009 Bavaj won a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, which was awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Publications
Riccardo Bavaj has published widely on the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany, liberalism after 1945 and the phenomena of ‘the West’ and European modernity. His main focus is on intellectual, conceptual and spatial history.