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Professor for Early Modern History at TU Dresden

• Gerd Schwerhoff studied history, sociology and education at the Universities of Cologne and Bielefeld.
• He then worked as research assistant and assistant professor (doctorate 1989, Habilitation 1997).
• From 1998 until 2000 he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
• Since 1^st April 2000 he is a professor at TU Dresden and holds the Chair for Early Modern History.
• Prof. Gerd Schwerhoff has extensive experience in academic self-administration and the implementation of scientific projects. He was Managing Director of the Institute of History several times (2001/2, 2008/9, 2013/4) and from 2003 to 2006 as well as from 2012 to 2015 vice dean (Prodekan) of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. He is the coordinator for the history courses at TU Dresden.
• From 2002 to 2009 he acted as spokesperson of the French-German European Graduate College 625 “Institutional Orders, Writing and Symbols”. From 2001 to 2008 he run a project within the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 537 “Institutionality and History”, and from 2009 to 2013 a project within the SFB 804 “Transcendence and Common Sense”; he also acted as coordinator of the Integrated Graduate College and as deputy spokesperson of SFB 804. Since 2017 he is the spokesperson of the SFB 1285 “Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement”.

• From 2007 to 2011 Prof. Gerd Schwerhoff was elected member and representative of Early Modern History in the Review Board 102 of the DFG (“History”).