S�ren Urbansky
Sören Urbansky is a historian of Russia and China in the modern era, specializing in imperial and racial entanglements, emigration and the history of borders. He is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, D.C., and since 2021 heading its Pacific Regional Office at UC Berkeley.
Before he joined the GHI in 2018, he has taught Chinese and Russian history at the Universities of Munich and Freiburg and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge.
He is the author of following books.
- Kolonialer Wettstreit: Russland, China, Japan und die Ostchinesische Eisenbahn (Frankfurt: Campus, 2008)
- Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)
- An den Ufern des Amur: Die vergessene Welt zwischen China und Russland (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2021)
Sören is currently embarking on a new project that examines anti-Chinese sentiments in a global perspective.
Main areas of interest
- Russia, the Soviet Union and China (18th - 20th centuries)
- Imperial entanglements in Northeast Asia
- Chinese diaspora in the Pacific
- Borders and Infrastructures
- Sinophobia
- Global, Transnational, and Micro History
- Inaccessible Archives
Education
PhD History, University of Konstanz, 2014
Diploma Cultural Studies, Viadrina European University at Frankfurt (Oder), 2006
Source: German Historical Institute
