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Join the Department of History in welcoming the Harris German Visiting Professor, Dominic Sachsenmaier

The Harris Program was created to strengthen relationships between Dartmouth College and academic institutions in Germany and to promote a deeper understanding between the two countries. The William P. and Dewilda N. Harris German/Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professorship program brings Germans from any academic, public, or artistic field to Dartmouth to teach, lecture, participate in conferences and joint research, contribute to departmental offerings, and establish on-going collegial contacts.

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Dominic Sachsenmaier is among Germany’s leading authorities on China and is in the process now of finishing a global history of China in the 20th century. But he has also written widely on the early modern period (European missionaries in China, etc.) and on the theory and practice of global history. Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in “Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives”. 

Sachsenmaier’s main current research interests include China’s transnational and global connections in the past and present. Prior to 2015, he held faculty positions at Jacobs University, Duke University as well as the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his education at Freiburg University, St. Andrews University, Nanjing University and Harvard University. He has published in fields such as Chinese concepts of society, the global contexts of European history and multiple modernities. For instance, he authored the monographs “Global Perspectives on Global History” (Cambridge UP, 2011), and “Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled” (Columbia UP, 2018)."

Source: https://www.sinologie-goettingen.de/en/department/person/prof-dr-dominic-sachsenmaier/:
"Dominic Sachsenmaier".