Selected Publications
Mario Wimmer is a historian of modern Europe specializing in the history of intellectual and cultural practices. Previous to joining the University of Basel as senior researcher, he was a postdoc at ETH Zürich (2010-12) and taught cultural and intellectual history in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric department (2013-16). His current research includes a monograph on “Ranke’s Blindness” and a project on the history of description in the modern humanities. He has published widely on the history of archives, the history and theory of historical knowledge and historical times, as well as on the methodology of historical semantics. For further information see. http://writingofhistory.weebly.com
PhD in modern history, 2010
Universität Bielefeld
MA in history (major), sociology, history of science, psychology (minors), 2004
Universität Bielefeld
Wed, Mar 15, 2017, International workshop ‘The Classics of Humanities I’
Wed, Mar 15, 2017, Workshop: Zukünfte der Philologie
Wed, Mar 15, 2017, Workshop: Tactilitiy and Community, organized by Andrea Erwig, Maha El Hissy, and Sebastian Haselbeck
Pedantry and Historiography
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