– historian, specializing in the 19th and 20th centuries in Central and Eastern Europe.
A graduate of the Department of History and German Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin, and of Eastern European Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Scholarship recipient at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw. Author of a doctoral dissertation on anti-Semitism in Galicia at the end of the 19th century, which he wrote at the Anti-Semitism Research Center at the Technical University of Berlin. His summa cum laude PhD thesis was awarded, among others, the Immanuel Kant Award, the Scientific Award of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Germany and the Geisteswissenschaften International Award. It was published in German by Metropol and in English by Berghahn Books.
Dr. Buchen’s research interests include the history of European empires and their fall, the history of collective violence, the history of settlement and forced migration, mass politics, nationalism and the shistory of minorities. He was a scholarship holder at the Minerva Foundation in Israel and at King’s College in London as part of the CENDARI Fellowship. Postdoc at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and was the recipient of a Thesaurus Poloniae scholarship at the International Cultural Center in Krakow. Junior professor at the Technical University of Dresden (2017 – 2023), as well as lecturer in European history at the University of Edinburgh (2015-2017), and assistant professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) (2013 – 2015) and at the Otto-Wilhelms-Universität in Bamberg (2012 – 2013). From January 2024, he is assistant professor at the Taibe Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław (the Zofia and Tadeusz Heimrath Associate Professor for the History of Jews in Breslau and Silesia). This position is financed by the University of Wrocław, two German foundations and a private donor.
tim.buchen[at]uwr.edu.pl