Chair of Early Modern History PD Dr. Magnus Ressel

10/2024–09/2025
Representing Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen as Professor of Early Modern History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

04/2023–09/2024
Representing Prof. Dr. Rebekka von Mallinckrodt as Professor of Early Modern History at Universität Bremen

10/2022–03/2023
Research Fellow of the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung

07/2022–09/2022
Resident Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris

10/2021–06/2022
Junior Fellow at Stiftung Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald

06/2020–09/2021
Research Fellow of the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung

11/2019–05/2020
Lecturer at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

04/2013–10/2019
Assistant Professor at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

11/2017
Habilitation in Early Modern History at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

10/2015–09/2016
Postdoctoral Researcher at Historisches Kolleg München

07/2015–09/2015
Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome

03/2013–05/2013
Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

04/2012–02/2013
Feodor Lynen Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher at Università degli Studi di Padova

02/2011–05/2011
Aide à la mobilité from the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule for one research semester at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

07/2011
PhD (Franco-German cotutelle) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Title: "Between Slave Funds and Turkish Passports: Northern Europe and the Barbary Corsairs in the Early Modern Age"); best grade in both systems ("très honorable avec les félicitations à l’unanimité"/"summa cum laude")

04/2009–03/2012
PhD Student/Research Assistant at the DFG-Project „Risikozähmung und obrigkeitliche Fürsorge“ at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

03/2008–03/2009
PhD Student/Research Assistant at SFB 573 at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

01/2005–01/2006
Study abroad at Macquarie University Sydney, completes with Study Abroad Diploma in Arts

2001–2007
Study of Cultural Studies at Universität des Saarlandes

• Das Versprechen der Märkte. Neue Perspektiven auf die Wirtschaftskulturgeschichte in der Frühen Neuzeit (DFG-Network): Member, project focus on transalpine markets in early modern times
• Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750) (EU-COST-Action): Member of the management committee and vice group leader of working group 2 (Migration and identity: National identities, local identities, religious identities), Project focus on the later crusades and crusade ideology in early modern times
• Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (EU-COST-Action): Member, project focus on forms of unfreedom in the Mediterranean and Atlantic context in early modern times
• Fellow of Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe University
• Member of the scientific board and editor of the journal Annali Recensioni Online
• Max Weber Award of the Max Weber College of Universität Erfurt for the habilitation thesis
• Premio Palazzo Barbarigo, awarded by the Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Deutschen Studienzentrums Venedig for the habilitation thesis