About - Prof. Dr. Korinna Schönhärl

Education and academic career

From October 2025: Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier

1 April 2024 – 30 September 2025: Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Paderborn

1 October 2021 – 31 March 2024: Heisenberg Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Paderborn

1 April 2021 – 30 September 2021: Acting Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Paderborn

1 October 2020 – 31 March 2021: Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies of Technology at KIT Karlsruhe

1 October 2018 – 28 February 2019: Visiting Professor at Université Lumière Lyon 2

1 April 2009 – 28 February 2018: Research assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen

16 November 2016: Habilitation in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Duisburg-Essen (“Financiers in Spaces of Longing: European Banks and Greece in the 19th Century”)

1 October 2005 – 31 December 2008: PhD studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

18 December 2008: Awarded a PhD from Goethe University with the thesis “Knowledge and Visions. Theory and Politics of the Economists in the Stefan George Circle”

1 September 2003 – 30 September 2005: Teacher training for secondary school teaching

1 October 1997 – 30 June 2003: Studied History and German at the University of Regensburg and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki