The two spokespersons of the Leibniz ScienceCampus EEGA are affiliated with the two principal investigators, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) and Leipzig University (UL). They lead the Board of Directors and represent the LSC externally.
Spokespersons
Spokesperson of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Eastern Europe – Global Area (EEGA), Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and Professor for Regional Geography at the Leipzig University
- Since 04/2024: Director of the IfL
- 2018–2024: Professor of Human Geography at TU Dresden
- 2010–2018: Coordinator of the research area „Spatial productions in the relationship between state and society“ at the IfL
- 2001–2009: Postdoctoral researcher and head of the research group „Geographies at the Margins of the European Project“ at the IfL
- 1995–2001: Assistant to the Director at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, and Research Associate
- 1994: Freelancer at the Plagwitz Development and Redevelopment Company, Leipzig
- 1985–1992: Studied Geography, Mathematics, Sociology, Administration and Spatial Planning and History at the Universi
- Meyer, Frank / Miggelbrink, Judith (2024): Regionalistische Bewegungen und fiskalische Selbstbestimmung : eine Inhaltsanalyse raumbezogener Forderungen der Bayernpartei. In: Berichte / Deutsche Akademie für Landeskunde / 97 (2024) 1/2, Seite 78-102.
- Molinari, Nora / Miggelbrink, Judith (2023): The silenced pandemic? : reconstructing history and spatiality of EU’s biopolitics on antimicrobial resistance. Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 53 Seiten. Working paper series des SFB 1199 an der Universität Leipzig ; 34
- Henn, Sebastian (Herausgeber/-in) / Miggelbrink, Judith (Herausgeber/-in) / Hörschelmann, Kathrin (Herausgeber/-in) (2022): Research ethics in human geography. London ; New York, Routledge. xii, 248 Seiten
Spokesperson of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA), Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 and the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) as well as Professor of Cultural History at Leipzig University, since April 2022 Vice-Rector Campus Development: Cooperation and Internationalization
- Since April 2022: Vice-Rector Campus Development: Cooperation and Internationalization at Leipzig University
- Since 2020: Spokesperson of the Federal Institute Social Cohesion
- Since 2020: Member of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Philosophy and the Humanities of UNESCO
- Since 2020: Spokesperson of the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
- Since 2016: Spokesperson of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA), Leipzig; Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 “Processes of Respatialization under the Global Condition”
- 2011: Fellow in residence, Netherlands Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2008: Visiting Professor, Centre for Economic History and Social Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Since 2008: Director of the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI), Leipzig University
- 2007-2008: Fulbright Distinguished Professor, Duke University
- Since 2007: Professor of Cultural History, Leipzig University
- 2005-2006: Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Université de Yaoundé II
- 2004-2005: Substitute Professorship for Comparative Cultural and Social History, Leipzig University
- 2002: Habilitation, “World History Writing at the age of discipline building. The Institute for Cultural and Universal History in Leipzig 1890-1990“, Modern Cultural and Social History
- 1999-2000: Guest Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Université Lyon II
- 1998: Visiting Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris (IVe section)
- 1996-1997: Visiting Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris; Guest Researcher, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
- 1994-2008: Acting Director, Centre for Advanced Study, Leipzig University
- 1989-1993: Postdoc, History Department, Leipzig University, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Fondazione Einaudi Torino, Universities of Lyon II, Rennes II and Rouen
- 1986-1989: Doctoral Studies, Department of General History, Lomonossov-University Moscow, thesis on the Counterrevolution in France 1788-1792 (summa cum laude)
- 1981-1985: Study of History, Leipzig University
- Deitelhoff, N., Groh-Samberg, O. & Middell, M. (2000): Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt. Ein interdisziplinärer Dialog. Frankfurt am Main.
- Middell, M. (2019): The Practice of Global History. European Perspectives. London
- Maruschke, M. & Middell, M. (2019): The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization. In: Dialectics of the Global, 5. Berlin/ Boston.
- Middell, M. (2019): Kommunismus jenseits des Eurozentrismus. In: Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung 2019. Berlin.
- Middell, M. (2018): Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies. London.
The two spokespersons of the Steering Committee (SC) of the Campus EEGA ensure the cooperation between the participating institutions and the research areas. The SC is in charge of decisions upon all collaborative activities of the LSC and LSC employment, and approves the operating and capital budgets.
Spokesperson of the EEGA Steering Committee and Senior Researcher as well as Coordinator of the Handbook of a “Transnational History of East Central Europe” at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
- 2013-2016: Visiting Researcher, University of Arhus, Denmark
- 2012: PhD, University of Leipzig, study on World History in Teaching and Research, Universities of Chicago, Columbia and Harvard (1918-1968)
- 2009: Guest Researcher, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Paris, France
- Studies in Medieval and Modern History, Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Leipzig, Edinburgh and Vienna
- Naumann, K. (2019): “…the inner working of this unique machinery”: Das Sekretariat und die Health Section des Völkerbunds in transnationaler Perpektive. Jahresheft des Leibniz-Instituts für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europas (GWZO), p. 19-23.
- Middell, M & Naumann, K. (2019): Historian and International Organizations: The International Committee of Historian Sciences. In: International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations, eds. Laqua, D., Van Acker, W. & Vebruggen, C. Indiana. Bloomsbury, p. 133-151
- Naumann, K. (2018): Laboratorien der Weltgeschichtsschreibung: Lehre und Forschung an den Universitäten Chicago, Columbia und Harvard von 1918 bis 1968. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. Göttingen.
- Naumann, K. Loschke, T., Marung, S. & Middell, M. (2018): In Search of Other Worlds. Essay towards a Cross-Regional History of Area Studies. Leipziger Universitätsverlag. Leipzig.
Spokesperson of the EEGA Steering Committee (SC), Dean of Study Affairs of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geography, Chair of Economic Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Speaker of the steering committee of the Leibniz ScienceCampus „Eastern Europe – Global Area“ (EEGA)
- 2016-2019: Executive Director, Institute of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
- Since 2014: Full Professor (Chair) in Economic Geography, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
- 2014: Habilitation, “Transnational entrepreneurs and knowledge-based regional development. A study using the diamond sector as an example”, Department of Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2012-2014: Researcher, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Department: Regional Geographies of Europe
- 2011-2012: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department for Political Science, University of Toronto
- 2010-2011: Substitute Professor, Cultural Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Additional Lecturer, Halle
- 2001-2011: Researcher, Department of Economic Geography, Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2006-2008: Lecturer, Institute of Geography, TU Dresden, Chair of General Economic and Social Geography
- 2006: Doctorate Dr. rer. nat., dissertation “Clusters in nanotechnology. Origin, properties, recommendations for action”, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- 1999-2001: Studies of Geography, Public Law, Economics and Business Administration, University of Mannheim
- 1997-1999: Studies of Geography, Economics and Public Law, University of Heidelberg
- Henn, S. & Schäfer, S. (2020): Migrants and Cluster Internationalization: Case Studies of Antwerp and Tel Aviv. In: Fornahl, D., Grashof, N. (Hrsg.). Regional Clusters in a Global World – Between Localization and Internationalization Advantages. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (im Druck).
- Franz, M. & Henn, S. (2020): Multinationals from the BRIC-countries investing in German firms: Impacts on industrial relations. In: Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management. 1/2020, S. 3-18.
- Henn, S. & Behling, M. (2020): Lokale Ökonomie – Begriff, Merkmale und konzeptionelle Abgrenzung. In: Henn, S., Behling, M. & Schäfer, S. (Hrsg.): Lokale Ökonomien. Konzepte, Quartiersentwicklung und Interventionen. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. S. 3-24.
- Schäfer, S. & Henn, S. (2018): The evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the critical role of migrants. A Phase-Model based on a Study of IT startups in the Greater Tel Aviv Area. In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Econmy and Society, 11(2), pp. 317-333.
