Ulf Strohmayer

Biography

Ulf Strohmayer is a graduate of Technische Universität München and the Pennsylvania State University. Currently, he is Professor of Geography at the National University of Ireland, Galway, after teaching previously at the University of Wales at Lampeter. He chaired the Department of Geography and the (newly formed) School of Geography & Archaeology between 2001 and 2012. Educated in Germany, Sweden, USA and France, he has also held visiting teaching and research posts at the Université de Pau et des Pays de L’Adour, Technische Universität Dresden, Binghamton University, the Center for Metropolitan Studies at Technische Universität Berlin and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. His interest in social theory and philosophy is matched by an equal curiosity about the conditions and consequences of historical processes of modernization in Western Europe, all of which have informed his extensive publication record. He has also co-written a textbook on historical geography and edited numerous volumes on social theory and the history of geographic thought.

Research Interest

Urban and Historical Geography, Social Theory