Till Van Rahden
Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Till van Rahden holds the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies at the Université de Montréal. In 2016, he is a research fellow “Leibniz Institute for European History”, Mainz, and the “Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen”, Vienna. He specializes in European history since the Enlightenment and is interested in the tension between the elusive promise of democratic equality and the recurrent presence of diversity and moral conflicts. In 1993, he received an M.A. in American history from The Johns Hopkins University, and in 1999, he completed his dissertation at the University of Bielefeld which received the “Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History” and was published as Jews and other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925 (Madison, 2008).
Research Interest
He specializes in European history since the Enlightenment and is interested in the tension between the elusive promise of democratic equality and the recurrent presence of diversity and moral conflicts.
