Dominic M. Sachsenmaier, Visiting Scholar

Dominic M. Sachsenmaier
Office Location:  Dept of History, 305 Carr Building
Office Phone:  (919) 681-7133
Email Address: send me a message

Education:

PhDAlbert-Ludwigs University Freiburg2000
Specialties:

Global Transnational History
Intellectual History
Medieval and Early Modern History
Cultural History
Comparative Colonial Studies
Research Interests: Global History, Transnational History, Chinese History, European History

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.“

Representative Publications

  1. D.M. Sachsenmaier, Global Perspectives on Global History. Theories and Approaches in a Connected World (2011), Cambridge UP
  2. Competing Visions of World Order. Global Moments and Movements, 1880-1935, edited by D.M. Sachsenmaier and Sebastian Conrad (April, 2007), New York: Palgrave  [author's comments]
  3. 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, vol. 46 (2002), pp. 472, Nettetal: Steyler
  4. D.M. Sachsenmaier, Global History and the Question of "Traditions", New Global Studies, vol. 3 no. 3 (2009)
  5. Dominic Sachsenmaier, World History as Ecumenical History?, Journal of World History, vol. 18 no. 4 (Winter, 2007), pp. 465 - 490
  6. Dominic Sachsenmaier, Searching For Alternatives to Western Modernity. Cross-Cultural Approaches in the Aftermath of World War I, Journal of Modern European History, vol. 4-2 (2006), pp. 241-259