Dominic M. Sachsenmaier
| Title: | Assistant Professor and Ph.D. |
| Office Location: | Dept of History, 305 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 681-7133 |
| Email Address: | sachsenm@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, 2000
Research Interests
Dominic Sachsenmaier’s main current research interests are Chinese and Western approaches to global history as well as the impact of World War I on political and intellectual cultures in China and other parts of the world. Furthermore he has published in fields such as 17th-century Sino-Western cultural relations, overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, and multiple modernities. Sachsenmaier is the co-convenor of a Sawyer seminar series (sponsored by the Mellon Foundation) on „Environment and Health in China and India.“ He also heads a research team exploring Chinese debates on globalization and history, which is located at Fudan University/Shanghai.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Mercator Distinguished Professorship, Humboldt University, German National Research Foundation (DFG), 2009
- Full Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Constance/Germany, 2009/2010
- Humboldt-Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, FU Berlin, Humboldt Foundation, 2008
- Andrew Mellon Assistant Professor, 2007/07/01 - 2008/06/30
- Visiting Professor, Erasmus Mundus Global Studies, Europe, 2007/05 - 2007/08
- Outstanding Faculty Member Award, UC Santa Barbara Residence Hall Association, November, 2005
- President's Fellow, Berlin Social Science Research Center, May - September 2004
- Junior Faculty Incentive Award (for extramural funding), UC Santa Barbara, February, 2004
- Aspen scholarship for seminar on East Asia, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, August, 2002
- Post-doctoral Scholar, German National Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2001-2003
- Waldseemüller-Award for the best work in International History, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg/Germany, November, 2000
Representative Publications
Books- Dominic Sachsenmaier, Die Aufnahme europäischer Inhalte in die chinesische Kultur durch Zhu Zongyuan (ca. 1616-1660) [Zhu Zongyuan’s Integration of Western Elements into Chinese Culture], Hardcover Monumenta Serica Monograph Series (Nettetal: Steyler, 2002).
- Dominic Sachsenmaier. "Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives." Comparative Eduction (Special Issue: Comparative Methodology in the Social Sciences) (2006): 451-470.
- Dominic Sachsenmaier. "Searching For Alternatives to Western Modernity. Cross-Cultural Approaches in the Aftermath of World War I." Journal of Modern European History 4-2 (2006): 241-259.