University of Wuppertal
Department: History of Humanities and International Relations
Bio: After studying history, political science and Islamic studies at the Saarland University as well as a study visit to Damascus / Syria, Sabine Mangold-Will received her doctorate from Elisabeth Fehrenbach with a scholarship from the Saarland State Graduate Fund and as a research assistant at the Chair for Newer and Newcomers History of the Saarland University. From 2003 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern History / Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal with Franz Knipping. From 2010 to 2016 she was junior professor for modern and contemporary history with a focus on the history of science and international relations at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2010 she completed her habilitation and received the Venia legendi for the subject of modern and contemporary history. In 2010/11 she was a substitute professor for Modern and Contemporary History / Western Europe at the University of Duisburg-Essen . In 2015 she was a Senior Fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Visiting Professor at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 2016 she was professeure invitée at the École normal supérieure(ENS), Paris, as part of the Labex TransferS. Since 2016 she has been Academic Senior Councilor at the University of Cologne at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at Ute Planert .
Mangold-Will's research areas are the history of science and transfer with a focus on Europe-Middle East relations, the transnational Weimar Republic, the history of oriental studies and the reception of the Orient, German-Turkish relations and Jewish orientalism.(link)