About
Uwe Müller was born in Waren (Müritz). He studied history in Leipzig (1983-1988) and was a doctoral candidate at Leipzig University (1988-1992). In 1992/93, he was researcher at the German National Library Leipzig. Later he worked as a researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin (1993-1999), the European University »Viadrina« in Frankfurt (Oder) (1999-2008), and the Saarland University in Saarbrucken (2008-2011). Since 2011, he has been a senior researcher at the GWZO. He received his PhD in economic history from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) in 1997.
Since 2016, Uwe Müller has been Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 [SFB 1199] »Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition«.
Work focus
- Economic and social History of Eastern Europe from the 18th to the 20th Century
- Eastern Europe in processes of globalisation and deglobalisation
- History of the CMEA
- Economic relations between Eastern Europe and the “Global South” (1945-1990)
- Agrarian movements, land reforms and cooperatives in East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Aktivitäten in Forschungsverbünden
Projektleiter (mit Frank Hadler und Stefan Troebst) am Sonderforschungsbereich 1199 »Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen« an der Universität Leipzig für das Teilprojekt B03 »Ost-Süd-Beziehungen im globalen Kalten Krieg: Wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten und regionalwissenschaftliche Interessen ostmitteleuropäischer RGW-Länder in Afrika«.
Functions (on committees)/memberships
- Executive Board Member of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council (since 2013)
Series issuance
- Co-editor of the »Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas« (Harrassowitz-Verlag, since 2007)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Studia historiae oeconomicae” (Poznań, since 2017)
Mitgliedschaften
- European Network in Universal and Global History
- Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Herder-Forschungsrat
- Quantum. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Quantifizierung und Methoden in der historisch-sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschland
Teaching
Uwe Müller is holding lectures at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, at the Europa-University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) as well as the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and the University of Leipzig.