Christian Müller

Erasmus Exchange Fellow at Gent University for the academic winter term 2011.

The Research Unit Scoial History after 1750 welcomes Dr. Christian Müller. Christian works as a research fellow and lecturer in Modern European History since 1750 at the Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster (Germany) with the Cluster of Excellence 212 “Religion and Politics”. He studied History, German, and Political/ Social Thought at Heidelberg and Oxford (University College) and passed his PhD in History in 2007. For 2007/2008 he was elected Mellon Prize Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge before moving to the post in Münster.

His research interests comprise comparative constitutional and party politics in Europe in the 19th century, the relationship between politics and religion during the Culture Wars in a comparative and transfer perspective, and the development of transnational expert networks and the differentiation from the 1840s to the interwar period. His current projects include a monograph study on social expert networks in Europe (working title “The Politics of Expertise. Social sciences, political reform and the differentiation of transnational policy networks, 1848-1914”) and a commented source edition of the “Institut de Droit International” based in Gent from 1861 to 1885/90.

In the Research Seminar together with Prof. dr. Christophe Verbruggen on Social and Cultural History since 1750, “Culture – Transfer – Identities” (9h-10h30, Ufo, Jan Dhondtzaal), Christian will discuss the perspectives and problems of “Histoire Croisée” (7 oktober), and talk about legal internationalisms (14 oktober) and religious internationalisms with their relations to other social movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries (21 oktober). He will also contribute to the session on social sciences (28 oktober) and the final discussion (16 december). Christophe and Christian will also host a seminar discussion as part of the research seminar with Pierre-Yves Saunier on the questions arising from the perspectives of transnational history (Tuesday 8 november, time and place tba).