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Full Professor of European and Global History at KU Leuven
Patrick Pasture is Full Professor of European and Global History and Co-Director of the master program in European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives at KU Leuven. He has been a Visiting Fellow/ Scholar at the IISG (Amsterdam), the Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Professor at Kobe University (Japan), the European Program of Drew University (Brussels Campus) and Peter Paul Rubens Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research mainly deals with the long-term history of Christendom and European history in a global and postcolonial perspective. He was the Project Leader of the H2020 Project RETOPEA (Religious Toleration and Peace) and principal investigator of the Jean Monnet Network European Transoceanic Encounters and Exchanges (ETEE). Recent publications include Imagining European Unity since 1000 AD (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and, with Riho Altnurme and Elena Arigita (eds), Religious Diversity in Europe: Mediating the Past to the Young (Bloomsbury, 2022). He is currently working on a new book History of Christendom: Church, State and Religious Freedom in the West (under contract with Bloomsbury).