Marcus M. Payk

Marcus M. Payk (* 1973 ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1993 to 1999 he studied history, law and social sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Münster . From 2001 to 2008 he was a research associate at the Center for Contemporary History . After receiving his doctorate in 2005 as Dr. phil. In 2008/2009 he was a research assistant in Bochum at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart , Department of Modern History ( Wolfram Pyta ). From 2009 to 2018 he was a research assistant / assistant at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , Chair of Modern and Contemporary History ( Martin Sabrow ). In September 2010 and September 2014 he conducted research as a Karl Ferdinand Werner Fellow at the DHI Paris . From 2011 to 2018 Dilthey Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2012/2013 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study . In April 2014 he taught as a visiting professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali at the Università di Bologna . After receiving his habilitation in June 2017 at the Humboldt University of Berlin ( Venia Legendi for Modern and Contemporary History), he has been teaching as Professor of Modern History at Helmut Schmidt University since 2018 , taking Western European history into account.

His work focuses on the history of the Federal Republic of Germany; History of modern international law; International history of the 19th and 20th centuries Century; Cold War media history; 20th Century Cultural and Intellectual History and History of the American Civil War.

Works (selection)

as editor with Arnd Bauerkämper and Konrad H. Jarausch : Transatlantic Mediators and the Cultural Opening of West Germany from 1945 to 1970 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36285-4 .
The spirit of democracy. Intellectual attempts at orientation in the features pages of the early Federal Republic. Karl Korn and Peter de Mendelssohn (= systems of order. Studies on the history of ideas in the modern age . Volume 23). Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16361-4 (also dissertation, Bochum 2003).
as editor with Annette Vowinckel and Thomas Lindenberger : Cold War Cultures. Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies . Berghahn Books, New York 2012, ISBN 0-85745-243-6 .
Peace through law? The rise of modern international law and the conclusion of peace after the First World War (= studies on international history . Volume 42). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 9783110578454 (also habilitation thesis, HU Berlin 2016).
as editor with Roberta Pergher : Beyond Versailles. Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2019, ISBN 0253040914 .
as editor with Julia Eichenberg, Benjamin Lahusen and Kim Christian Priemel: Zeithistorische Forschungen 16 (2019), Issue 2: Contemporary history of law .

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personal data
SURNAME	Payk, Marcus M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Payk, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1973