Michael Goebel

Born in Munich, Goebel studied History at Freie Universität Berlin and University College London, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006.[http://toynbeeprize.org/global-history-forum/city-of-lights-city-of-revolution-walking-the-streets-of-anti-imperial-paris-with-michael-goebel/ Timothy Nunan, “City of Light, City of Revolution: Walking the Streets of Anti-Imperial Paris with Michael Goebel,” Toynbee Prize Foundation, October 7, 2015] He subsequently held a Past & Present Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, a Marie Curie Fellowship at the European University Institute, and a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at Harvard University.[http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/en/homepages/goebel/ Short CV on faculty website] After four years as "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter", Freie Universität Berlin appointed him as a professor in June 2015.[http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/disziplinen/geschichte/news/goebel-ruf1.html Freie Universität Berlin, Press Release, June 5, 2015] In 2018 he became the holder of the Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.{{Cite web |url=http://graduateinstitute.ch/home/study/faculty/professors.html/_/people/goebel |title=Goebel |access-date=2018-06-24 |archive-date=2018-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624035839/http://graduateinstitute.ch/home/study/faculty/professors.html/_/people/goebel |url-status=dead }} He is one of the founders of the Global Urban History blog[https://unstablepraxis.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/global-urban-history-freie-universitat-berlin-a-discussion-with-michael-goebel/ Josh Allen, “Global Urban History: A Discussion with Michael Goebel,” May 13, 2016] and a member of the Graduate School Global Intellectual History at Freie Universität Berlin.[http://www.global-history.de/gih/people/index.html Graduate School Global Intellectual History, Faculty]

Goebel's main research interests are the histories of nationalism, of migration, and of cities. Trained in the intellectual history of Latin America, his first book dealt with nationalism and the political use of history in twentieth-century Argentina.[http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35047 Mariano Ben Plotkin, Review of Argentina’s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011)] However, his second book, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism, deals with the urban history of Paris as the “‘social bedrock’ for the formation of an anti-imperialist consciousness that transformed the world after 1945.”[https://newleftreview.org/II/98/ian-birchall-capital-of-pariahs Ian Birchall, “Capital of Pariahs,” New Left Review 98, March/April 2016] The book won the 2016 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, awarded by the American Historical Association.[https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/jerry-bentley-prize-recipients Jerry Bentley Prize Recipients] Even though the book champions the benefits of “global history,” Goebel elsewhere warned that an “over-endearment with phenomena and historical explanations that cross national, and now regional, boundaries (…) can lead to unconvincing historical accounts, or narratives that drown questions of causality in a never-ending assemblage of sparkly anecdotes about ‘entanglement.’” [https://trafo.hypotheses.org/4455 “All Things Transregional: In Conversation with Michael Goebel,” June 13, 2016]

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=LNMmCgAAQBAJ Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• edited with Nicola Foote: [https://books.google.com/books?id=uCMmnwEACAAJ Immigration and National Identities in Latin America] (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014).
• [https://www.academia.edu/5650967/Overlapping_Geographies_of_Belonging_Migrations_Regions_and_Nations_in_the_Western_South_Atlantic Overlapping Geographies of Belonging: Migrations, Regions, and Nations in the Western South Atlantic] (Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 2013).
• [http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/ravignani/article/view/5700 La Argentina partida: nacionalismos y políticas de la historia] (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2013).
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=dUqz24zeWmUC Argentina’s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History] (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011).

• [https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereiche/global_history/People/Faculty/Michael-Goebel.html Faculty Website at Freie Universität Berlin].
• [https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/MichaelGoebel Publications on academia.edu].
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJwmHssj7cU Interview about Anti-Imperial Metropolis].
• [http://newbooksnetwork.com/michael-goebel-anti-imperial-metropolis-interwar-paris-and-the-seeds-of-third-world-nationalism-cambridge-up-2015/ Interview about Anti-Imperial Metropolis for New Books in French Studies].
• [https://trafo.hypotheses.org/4455 Interview about Anti-Imperial Metropolis for the Toynbee Prize Foundation].
• [https://unstablepraxis.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/global-urban-history-freie-universitat-berlin-a-discussion-with-michael-goebel/ Interview about the state of urban history].
• [https://trafo.hypotheses.org/4455 Interview about global and transregional history].

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