Prof. Dr. Antje Flüchter

Prof. Dr Antje Flüchter has been a Professor of General History with a special focus on the Early Modern Period at Bielefeld University since 2014. Her research focus includes the history of global interconnections with a focus on relations between Asia and Europe, gender history, theory of history, and the history of religions. More recently, she has been focusing on the ordering of people through comparative practices from the 15th to the 19th century, not least the declining importance of religious affiliation and birth status on the one hand and the growing importance of racialising classifications on the other.
In June 2023, Antje Flüchter was elected to the advisory board—since November 2023 also in function of chairperson—of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre "Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation" (global dis:connect). Since September 2021, she has been a member of the committee of the German Historical Association. She is also spokesperson for the profile sector of Global and Entangled History in the Department of History at Bielefeld University and, since May 2021, spokesperson for the SFB 1288 "Practices of Comparing. Ordering and Changing the World."
From 2018 to 2021, Antje Flüchter was Dean of the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at Bielefeld University. 2013–2014 she taught as Associate Professor at the University of Oslo/Norway. 2008–2013 she led research groups at the Cluster(s) of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context in Heidelberg—starting 2012, she was also PI (Principal Investigator) of this research network.
Antje Flüchter studied history, political science, and geography in Freiburg and Cologne. From 1997 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the University of Münster (Stollberg-Rilinger chair), where she completed her thesis in 2002 (The celibacy between norm and deviance. Church policy and everyday life in congregations in Jülich and Berg in the 16th and 17th centuries (Norm und Struktur; 25), Cologne 2006). In 2012 she habilitated at the University of Heidelberg (The Multiplicity of Images and the One Truth: The Statehood of India in German-Language Perception (1500–1700), Affalterbach 2020).

since May 2021:
Spokesperson of SFB 1288 "Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World"

2018–2021:
Dean of the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology

since 2014:
Professor of Early Modern History at Bielefeld University

2013–2014:
Associate Professor of Cultural History, IKOS, University of Oslo

WiSe 2012/13:
Substitute Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen at the University of Heidelberg

SoSe 2012:
Visiting professor at the DFG Research Training Group Dynamics of Space and Gender at the Universities of Kassel & Göttingen

since July 2011:
Principal Investigator (main applicant) of the Cluster(s) of Excellence "Asia and Europa in a Global Context"
at the University of Heidelberg

since 2008:
Research Group Leader of the project "Cultural Transfer as a Factor of Statebuilding" at the Cluster(s) of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at the University of Heidelberg

2008:
Substitute Prof. Dr. Francisca Loetz at the University of Zurich

1.3.–30.6.2008:
Research Fellowship at the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna

2002–2008:
Research Assistant Chair of Early Modern History in Münster (Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger)

1997–2002:
Research Assistant Chair of Early Modern History in Münster (Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger)

2012:
Habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Heidelberg (topic of the habilitation thesis: Die Vielfalt der Bilder und die eine Wahrheit. The statehood of India in German-language perception (1500-1700)).

2002:
Doctorate/Phd studies in the subjects Modern and Medieval History, Political Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster (subject of the (doctoral) thesis: Celibacy between norm and deviance. Church politics and everyday life in Jülich and Berg in the 16th and 17th centuries).

1997:
Degree as Magistra Artium at the University of Cologne in Medieval and Modern History, Political Science and Geography with Prof. Dr. Johannes Kunisch (subject of the Master's thesis: Estates and State Formation in Bohemia in the Confessional Age)

1989–1997:
Studies of the subjects Medieval and Modern History, Political Science, Geography and Folklore in Freiburg (1989–1991) and Cologne (1992–1997)