Team > Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Chair of Early Modern History

• Since October 2009, Chair of Early Modern History, Universität Bayreuth
• 2009, Habilitation, Universität Hamburg
• 2007 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
• 2006-2008, Fellow Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation), Bonn
• 2004-2006, Marie Curie Intra European Fellow, Moore Institute, NUI, Galway, Irland
• 2002-2003, Research Assistant/Consultant, Moore Institute, NUI, Galway, Irland
• 2002 PhD awarded with summa cum laude, History and German Literature and Linguistics, Universität Heidelberg
• 1997-1999, Scholarship for PhD-candidates, Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung
• Invited professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris (2010) and the universities Toulouse Jean Jaurès (2009, 2017) und Angers (2012)

List of Publications (PDF)

Academic service extern

• Member of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Review Panel SH6 (2022-2023)
• Co-editor of the Anthem Intercultural Transfer Studies withThomas Adam (Arkansas) (2021 ff.)
• Editor of the series Forum historische Forschung: Frühe Neuzeit with Andreas Bähr (Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), Guido Braun (Colmar), Marion Gindhart (Mainz), Matthias Pohlig (HU Berlin) (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer) (2019 ff.)
• Editor of the series Mediengeschichte with Volker Depkat (Regensburg), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken) and Christine Vogel (Vechta) (Baden Baden: Nomos-Verlag) (2019 ff.)
• Area editor of Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press) with Trevor Burnard (Hull), Emma Hart (McNeil Center Philadelphia), Ellen Hartigan O'Connor (UC Davis), Willemm Klooster (Clark University), Simon Newman (Glasgow), Cécile Vidal (EHESS) (2010 ff.)
• Co-editor of the journal Humanities (MDPI) (2018 ff.)
• Co-founder and member of the Steering Committee der Summer Academy of Atlantic History (SAAH) with Trevor Burnard (Hull), Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway), Lauric Henneton (Versailles Saint Quentin), Philip D. Morgan (Johns Hopkins), Lou Roper (SUNY New Paltz), Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (UPO Sevilla), Pedro Cardim (Lisboa), Willem Klooster (Clark University, USA) (2009 ff.)
• Board Member of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) Munich (2024 ff.)
• Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Early American History (Leiden:Brill) (2017 ff.)
• Member of the Steering Committee of AMERICA 2026 (2023 ff.)
• Member of the advisory committee of the Hugenottenmuseums of the French Church Berlin (2016 ff.)
• Member of the Senior Faculty of the Summer School Historicizing the Refugee Experience (2021 ff.)
• Advisory Board Member of Revue d'histoire du protestantisme, with among others Hubert Bost (EPHE), Mark Greengrass (Sheffield), Thomas Kaufmann (Göttingen), Frank Lestringant (Paris-Sorbonne), Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews) and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) (Genf: Droz) (2016 ff.)
• Advisory Board Member of the Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris (2017 ff.)
• Review-editor for e-journal sehepunkte (French and Atlantic Early Modern History) (2007 ff.)
• Member and President (2012-2014) of the European Early American Studies Association 
• Member of the Comité de rédaction of  Diasporas. Histoire et ociétés (Toulouse: PUM) (2010 - 2024)
• References among others for Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, BMBF, Brill Publishers, European Research Council (ERC), European Science Foundation (ESF), Journal of Institutional Economics (CUP), DAAD, DFG, Journal of Early Modern History (Brill), Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien Stockholm (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), Max-Weber-Stiftung, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Oxford University Press, Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF), Sciences Po (Paris), Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, William and Mary Quaterly (Omohundro Institute) and universities and Grandes Ecoles in Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria and the USA

Academic service intern

• Spokeswoman of the PhD programme "Geschichte - History - Histoire", 2011-2015 chair of the examination board of the MA program "Geschichte  – History – Histoire",Universität Bayreuth
• Member of the governing body Bayreuth Institute for American Studies (BIFAS)
• Member of the chair of the examination board of th MA program MA Global History
• Head of the “Historical Studies” pillar in the MA Medienkultur und Medienwirtschaft (MeKuWi)
• Spokesperson of the Emerging Field "Kulturbegegnungen und transkulturelle Prozesse", University of Bayreuth, Spokeswoman of the group "Diasporen" (2012-2023)
• Member of the Board of the University of Bayreuth Graduate School (-2022)
• Head of Department of History, University of Bayreuth (2013-2015)
• Women's Representative, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2012-2015)
• Deputy Women's Representative, University of Bayreuth (2012-2014)

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Chair of Early Modern History

For an overview of Professor Lachenicht's research areas see Research.

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Chair of Early Modern History

Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Chair

Office: GW II Raum: 2.12

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4190
E-mail: susanne.lachenicht@uni-bayreuth.de