Sören Urbansky (historian)

Sören Urbansky (* 1980 ) is a German historian .

biography

After a voluntary service at Memorial in Moscow, Sören Urbansky studied cultural studies and history at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder), the Heilongjiang University in Harbin, the Kazan Federal University , the University of California, Berkeley and at the Tsinghua University in Beijing as well as Russian and Chinese. In 2014 he completed his doctorate , supervised by Jürgen Osterhammel and Karl Schlögel , with a dissertation on the history of the Sino-Russian border.

From 2009 to 2014 he taught as a research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , before he became academic advisor at the historical seminar of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich in 2014 . From 2016 to 2017 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge . Since the beginning of 2018 he has been researching the history of anti-Chinese discourses at the German Historical Institute in Washington .

Beyond the Steppe Frontier. A History of the Sino-Russian Border . Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press 2020, 978-0691181684
Colonial competition. Russia, China, Japan and the East China Railway . Campus, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38771-0 . Publishing site .

Yellow Perils. China Narratives in the Contemporary World. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2018 (with Franck Billé), ISBN 978-0-8248-7579-4 . Publishing site .
China from Without. Doing PRC History in Foreign Archives. The PRC History Review 2: 3 (2017) (with Arunabh Ghosh)
Sign of time. Europe's East in the Far East. Eastern Europe 65: 5-6 (2015) (with Andreas Renner, Manfred Sapper and Volker Weichsel), ISBN 978-3-8305-3514-0 . ( Online ).
Silent Revolutions. The reshaping of the world since 1989 . Campus, Frankfurt 2013 (with Katharina Kucher and Gregor Thum ), ISBN 978-3-593-39851-8 . Publishing site .
"Our Island". Soviet identity politics on Sakhalin after 1945 . be.bra, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95410-017-0 . Publishing site .
Borders in Imperial Times: Daily Life and Urban Spaces in Northeast Asia , in: Comparativ, Vol. 22 (2012), No. 5 (with Susanne Hohler and Frank Grüner), ISBN 978-3-86583-715-8 .