Sabine Rutar

Sabine Rutar studied History as well as English, Italian, and French Language and Literature in Münster and Rome. She holds an MA in Modern History (University of Münster, 1996) and an MA in Education (Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1992). She earned her PhD in History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence (2001). From 2001 to 2002, she worked at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig and from 2003 to 2007, at the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum (DFG). In 2004/05, she taught Southeast European History at Basel University. Then, in 2007/08 she was a Feodor Lynen scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Koper, Slovenia. She has been Editor-in-Chief (since 2014) and Managing Editor (since 2008) of Comparative Southeast European Studies (formerly Südosteuropa. Journal of Politics and Society). She has been a guest professor/scholar at the Universities of Koper and Ljubljana (both 2011), at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (2012 and 2013), at the Imre Kértesz Kolleg in Jena (2012/13), at the International Research Center “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History” (re:work) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014), at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies (2016/17), and at the EHESS Paris.