Prof. Dr. ret. Stefan Troebst

Stefan Troebst studied history, Slavic studies, Balkan studies, political science and Islamic studies at the Free University of Berlin and at universities of Tübingen, Sofia (Bulgaria), Skopje (Yugoslavia, now Macedonia), as well as at Indiana University in Bloomington (U.S.A.). He earned his doctorate with a study entitled »Mussolini, Macedonia and the Powers 1922-1930. The ›Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation‹ in the Southeast European Policy of Fascist Italy«. He worked as a research assistant and university assistant for contemporary Eastern European history at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the Free University of Berlin and held a postdoctoral research fellowship from the German Research Foundation.

His habilitation, »Trade Control – ›Derivation‹ – Containment: Swedish Policy towards Moscow 1617-1661«, was published in Wiesbaden in 1997. After serving as Interim Professor of Modern History at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and receiving a Heisenberg Fellowship from the DFG, he was named Professor of Cultural Studies of East Central Europe at the Faculty of Philology at Leipzig University in 1999. Since 2015, he has been Professor of Cultural History of Eastern Europe at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the same university. He is head of the Master's programme European Studies at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) at the University of Leipzig.

From 1999 to 2021, Stefan Troebst was Deputy Director of the GWZO.

• German member of the long-term missions of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Macedonia and Moldova on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office
• Advisor to the International Commission on the Balkans established by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Aspen Institute Berlin
• Founding director of the Danish-German European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg (1996-1998)
• Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kosovo for Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt

• The influence of Eastern Europe's history of conflict on modern international law
• Memory politics and the politics of history in Eastern and Western Europe
• Collective identities in East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the post-1989 period
• Eastern Europe in East-West trade in the early modern period
• Armenians in Central and Eastern Europe
• International organisations and ethnopolitical conflicts in contemporary Eastern Europe
• Southeast Europe in international relations in the interwar period
• Nationalism and historiography in the Balkans

Project lead (with Frank Hadler and Uwe Müller) at the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 »Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition« at Leipzig University for the sub-project B03 »East-South Relations in the Global Cold War: Economic Activities and Regional Scientific Interests of East Central European COMECON Countries in Africa«.

• Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German-Polish Science Foundation
• Deputy Chairman of the Board of Clio.online – Historical Information System e. V.
• Associate Fellow of the Robert Bosch Centre for Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the German Council on Foreign Relations
• Socius externus Societatis Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki
• Fellow of the World Academy for Rusyn Culture
• Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre »Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition« at Leipzig University

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (until 2019)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Advanced Study in Sofia, Bulgaria
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German War Graves Commission
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at the University of WrocŁaw
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
• Member of the Executive Board of the German Association for Eastern European Studies (until 2019)
• Member of the Advisory Council of the Department of History at the Central European University
• Member of the International Commission for the Study of Slavic History within the International Committee of Historical Sciences
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Dresden Institute for Eastern European Studies
• Member of the Forum Mitteleuropa at the Saxon State Parliament
• Member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Area Studies (CAS) at the University of Leipzig
• Member of the Executive Board of the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) at the University of Leipzig
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Leibniz Science Campus »Eastern Europe – Global Area« in Leipzig

• Co-editor of the GWZO book series »Visual History Culture«, »Armenians in Eastern Europe«, »Research on the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe«, »Armenian Cultural Heritage in the Carpathian Basin«
• Co-editor of the book series »Modern European History«
• Co-editor of the book series »European History in Sources and Essays«
• Co-editor of the book series »Societies and States in Times of Change«
• Co-editor of the book series »Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe«
• Co-editor of the book series »Studia Brandtiana«
• Co-editor of the Clio online portal »History and Historical Studies«
• Co-editor of the internet encyclopaedia »EGO – European History Online«
• Co-editor of the journal »Slavic Review. Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies«
• Co-editor of the journal »Urbanitas. Revistă de studii urbane integrate. Urbanitas. Revistă de studii urbane integrate. Journal of Integrated Urban Studies«
• Co-editor of the journal »East Central Europe. L'Europe du Centre Est: A Scientific Journal«
• Co-editor of the »Yearbook for Historical Communism Research«
• Co-editor of »Inter finitimos. Yearbook on German-Polish Relations«
• Co-editor of »Comparativ. Journal for Global History and Comparative Social Research«
• Co-editor of »Mitropa. Annual Journal of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe«
   

Head of the Master's programme »European Studies« at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) at Leipzig University. Stefan Troebst has also taught courses in the degree programmes »Cultural Studies«, »History«, »Slavic Studies« and »European Integration in East Central Europe«.