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M at t hi as Schulz
29 Septembre 2011
Professional address:
Université de Genève
Département d’histoire générale
Uni-Bastions
Rue Candolle 5
CH-1211 Genève 4
Tel. 022-379.70.88
E-mail : [email protected]
Privat address:
Rue de Montchoisy 25
CH-1207 Genève
Tel. 022-735.30.87
Born 6 July 1964, married and with one child, I have been since 2007 full professor for the history
of international relations and transnational history at the University of Geneva.
After studies in History, English literature, and International Relations at the University of
Hamburg, where I obtained my doctorate in 1995, at Tulane University, and the Graduate Institute
for International Studies, Geneva, where I obtained a diplôme d’études supérieures, I taught at the
University of Rostock (1996-2001), where I obtained my habilitation (2002), at Vanderbilt University
(2001-2006), where I served as DAAD-Visiting Associate Professor and also directed the Center for
European Studies, and at the University of Mannheim (2006-2007).
In Geneva, I teach the history of international institutions (19th century directorial tradition,
technical organizations, League of Nations and United Nations); the 19th and 20th century history of
transnational movements and NGOs (humanitarian, human rights-oriented, and environmental) and
their roles in “international society”; as well as post-war European and global history.
For eighteen years I have researched on the evolution of international normative orders and IR in
19th and 20th century European and Global History. I published four monographs, co-edited two
books and three thematic issues of peer-review journals, and have written numerous articles,
including many in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, on topics such as the history of international
institutions, the cultural practices of multilateralism; cultures of peace (mentalities, norms, rules,
and procedures in the international system); the history of transnational actors (like the ICRC) in
the international system; the history of European integration; and the history of globalization. My
recent monograph on 19th century global history includes chapters on European expansion and its
human and environmental consequences. Currently, I am preparing a monograph (publication
contract) on the late 19th and 20th century history of globalization with special attention to the
environmental consequences of industrialization, imperialism, and post-colonialism, as well as
attempts to regulate environmental policies on a transnational level. The research for the
monograph is accompanied by collaborators’ projects on environmental history and IR.
A member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Relations internationales and of the
advisory board of Documents diplomatiques suisses, I chair the board of the University of Geneva’s
study program in International Relations, and have initiated the UniGe’s new Master programme in
Transnational History, which will begin in 2012. I am also a senior member in interdisciplinary
research groups on normative orders, such as the research group on the Post-Transatlantic Era: A
21st Century Concert of Great Powers? directed by Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute,
Frankfurt (2001-2014), and a research group working on the “Paradoxes of Peace” which is directed
by Milos Vec, Institut Max-Planck for European Legal History, Frankfurt on the Main.
I have given presentations and been invited as speaker and/or keynote speaker on more than 50
occasions, e.g. at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the German Historical Institute, London,
a consortium of Austrian Universities and the National Library at Vienna, the University of
Cambridge, the University of Freiburg (Görres-Society), The Woodrow Wilson Center for
International Scholars, and the European University Institute (selection, 2008-2011).
My current fields of interest include : history of globalization and European integration, UNhistory, environmental governance, shortcomings of Great-Power management, humanitarianism.
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Recent and ongoing collaborative research grants (2006-2011)
• 2011/12 co-organizer, with Davide Rodogno (HEID) of a conference on the history of relations
between international organizations and NGOs, Geneva, May 2012, FNS-grant CHF 8.000
• 7/2011-6/2014 Senior-researcher in the research-group „Towards a Post-Transatlantic Era: A
Great Power Concert for the 21st century?“ financed by the Volkswagen Foundation, Riksbank
Jubilaumsfond and the Compagnia di San Paolo, principal applicant: Harald Müller, director,
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; volume: EUR 980.000,-; part at the disposition of each
senior researcher for engaging a post-doc researcher and other expenses: EUR 80.800,• 2009-2011 organisation of a workshop on the history of the European Parliament, and co-editor,
with Wilfried Loth and Aurelie Gfeller, of a thematic issue of the peer-reviewed Journal for
European Integration History, published in July 2011, (financed by Fondation Pierre du Bois,
Maison de l’Histoire and University of Genève, CHF 10.000,• 2004-2009 co-organizer and co-editor with Thomas A. Schwartz (Vanderbilt University) of a
conference volume entitled The Strained Alliance : US-European Relations from Nixon to
Carter, peer reviewed, published at Cambridge University Press, 2010, conference and book
financed by German Historical Institute, Vanderbilt University, Robert Penn Warren Center of
the Humanities, and minor grant-givers, ca. US-Dollar 40.000,• 2008 international conference in honor of Antoine Fleury, University of Geneva, CHF 6.000,• 2006-7 DAAD-fellowship (EUR 33.600,-) for research stay at Institute for European History,
Mainz (conclusion of book manuscript « Normen und Praxis », published in 2009
• 2001-2006 DAAD-Visiting Associate Professorship, Vanderbilt University (ca. EUR 350.000,-)
Directed Research
Doctoral dissertations in progress
• Aballéa, Marion (Master 2, ENS Lyon), sujet de thèse : Un exercice de diplomatie chez «
l’ennemi » : L’ambassade de France à Berlin entre 1871 et 1933 (en co-tutelle avec Prof.
Sylvain Schirmann, Université de Strasbourg)
• Alkhazragi, Hussein David (Maîtrise, Université de Genève), sujet de thèse : La Société des
Nations et le Moyen-Orient : entre tutelle bienveillante et nouvel impérialisme (1919-1948)
• Desgrandchamps, Marie-Luce : (Master 2, Institut de Sciences politiques, Paris) L'humanitaire en
guerre civile : Intervenir dans le conflit Nigéria-Biafra
Co-directed: Werner Lippert (Vanderbilt), Willy Brandt and the Economics of Ostpolitik, 2006
Memoirs
2010-2011: eight Master and 19 Bachelors memoirs ; 2009-2010 : three Master and 17 Bachelor
memoirs ; 1997-2008 roughly fifty Bachelor and Master memoirs
Expertises and member of jurys
I have served as expert for doctoral, post-doctoral and project grants for the DAAD New York, the
Swiss National Fund, the Volkswagen Foundation; as member of selection committees (e.g. Lille
2011, Genève 2011, 2012), and as jury member in fifteen doctoral proceedings at the University of
Rostock, Vanderbilt University, Uni Genève, the European University Institute (Florence), LSE et al.
Accessory functions include:
• Responsibility for collaborators : one maître-assistant (post-doc, shared with Unité d’histoire
contemporaine), two assistants-doctoral candidates, three part-time lecturers (chargés
d’enseignements post-doc), and a post-doc researcher financed by the project « PostTransatlantic Era » (Volkswagen Foundation, Riksbank Jubilaumsfond, Compagnia di San Paolo)
• elected member, Participatory Council, Philosophical Faculty
• elected member, planning commission, Philosophical Faculty, 2010-11
• temporary vice-director, Maison de l’Histoire, 2009-2010
• member, Scientific Council, Maison de l’histoire, since 2009
• member, Working Group of the rectorat for a Centre for International and European Studies
• Memberships in professional associations : Société suisse d’histoire, Commission for the History
of International Relations, SHAFR, Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung, Deutscher
Historikerverband, History of Int’l Organizations Network (HION)
Matthias Schulz, Professeur ordinaire
Histoire des relations internationales et histoire transnationale
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