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Professor of Modern History at KU Leuven
Martin Kohlrausch is professor of modern history with a focus on European political history at the history department of KU Leuven. Before joining KU Leuven he taught modern history at Technische Universität Berlin (2003-05), was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw (2005-09), lecturer at Bochum University (2009-11), Dilthey-Fellow of the VolkswagenStiftung (2009-2017) and Fellow-in-Residence at the NIAS, Wassenaar Netherlands (2011). He also was Fellow of the C2DH, Luxembourg (2019) and Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz (2021). At KU Leuven he teaches courses on contemporary European history, imperial history and on the relation of politics and mass media. His research deals with the relation of politics and mass media with a focus on the monarchy, political scandals and changing notions of political leadership. A second strand of his research is concerned with the rise of (modernist) architects to new social and political meaning in the 20th century (see monograph ‘Brokers of Modernity. East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects’ (LUP, 2019). He understands architects as particularly intriguing examples of the modern expert emerging in the 19th century, a theme of his monograph ‘Building Europe on Expertise’, co-authored with Helmuth Trischler and part of the new European history ‘Making Europe’ (Palgrave 2014). Currently, he explores experts who turned into celebrities and projections screens of vast societal expectations in the 20th century, focusing mainly on architects Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.”