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| Name | Dirk van Laak |
| Academic title(s) | Prof. Dr. |
| Institute | Historical Institute |
| Department | Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies |
| Function | Chair in German and European History, 19th to 21st Century |
| Address | Beethovenstrasse 15, Leipzig |
| Zip code | 04107 |
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| Phone | +49-341-9737050 |
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| Short biography | born 1961, PhD 1992, from 2007 to 2016 Professor of Contemporary History at University of Gießen, since 2016 Professor of German and European History, 19th to 21st Century at University of Leipzig |
| Recent publications |
Maria Paula Diogo/Dirk van Laak: Europeans Globalizing. Mapping – Exploiting – Exchanging, Houndmils/New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016 (= Making Europe. Technologies and Transformations, 1850-2000, ed. by Johan Schot/Philip Scranton, Vol 6) Dirk van Laak: Alles im Fluss. Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft. Geschichte und Zukunft der Infrastruktur, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 2018 |
| Role in Tensions of Europe | |
| Research interests | Security, Migration, Mobilty, Energy, Waste and Reuse, Knowledge Networks |
| Additional research interests | Infrastructure |