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Historians in conversation - Prof. Alexander Schunka

How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Dr Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.

Alexander Schunka is a historian of migration, specialising on the early modern history. He studied history and then also received his PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of München. He completed his habilitation at the University of Stuttgart and he is currently professor at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, Free University of Berlin. The particular situation of the academia in Germany and the transformation it undergoes set the perfect background for this episode. The conversation revolves around personal interests and career choices which Alexander had to face in order to ensure his academic future, and the reasons for choosing this specific path. 
His most recent major publications include: Die Hugenotten. Geschichte – Religion – Kultur. München 2019 (Beck Wissen). München 2021; Ein neuer Blick nach Westen. Deutsche Protestanten und Großbritannien, 1688-1740 [Habilitationsschrift Universität Stuttgart unter d. Titel: Von der Irenik zur Anglophilie, 2015]. Wiesbaden 2019 (Jabloniana 10).

Hello and welcome to the fifteenth episode of my podcast historians in conversation, which is hosted by the University of Lodz in Poland My name is Michal Green and I am very happy to welcome today my guest Professor Aleksandr Shumka from the Freie Universität of Berlin Professor Shumka is working on the topics of migration and specializes on the early modern period But the reason that I invited him today is the fact that he has a very interesting and I would say inspiring academic care...