Raphael Utz, PhD
Curriculum vitae
- 2010-present: managing director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
- 2007-2010: research fellow in subproject B5 "Weimar and Russia" of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 482 "The Weimar-Jena Phenomenon: Culture around 1800" at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 2006-2007: completed doctorate (advisor: Prof. Heinz-Dietrich Löwe) at Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg with a dissertation on Russia´s Unusable Past: Nationalism and Foreign Policy during the Tsarist Empire (in German)
- 2006-2007: knowledge manager for the L.E.K. Consulting Company in Munich
- 2001-2006: worked in product management for the SAP Company in Walldorf (Baden)
- 2003-2007: lecturer in Eastern European history at the University of Heidelberg
- 1998-2000: doctoral scholar of the German National Academic Foundation
- 1997: lecturer in German at the University of Oxford, Wadham College
- 1995-1996: lecturer in Russian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at the University of Cambridge
- 1993-1996: completed a Master of Philosophy degree in Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Oxford
- 1991-1993 studied middle and modern history, Eastern European history and Slavic studies at the University of Heidelberg.
Research projects
- Sobibór and Shoah Memory 1944-2016
- Monarchies in the Balkans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Russia as a culture of memory
Main areas of research
- Eastern Europe and the Shoah
- Soviet mass crimes in the Russian culture of memory
- Nationalism and the theory of nationalism
- European monarchies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
