Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler
Social and behavioural sciences, Simulation of innovation processes in complex social systems
Social and behavioural sciences, Humanities
Political, Cultural and Social History, the History of Political Thought and Conceptual History (Modern and Contemporary Periods)
Cultural History, the problems of small cultures/ Central and Eastern Europe
Historiography, Nationalism, Political Thought
History of Global Health, International Organizations, Social Movements, Disability, Human Rights
Marginality, Inequality, Vulnerability
History of the Human-Animal-Robot Nexus
History of Guide Dogs for the Blind
Public History, Citizen Science
ERC Consolidator Grant, Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective, 2015 – 2020
Recipient of the 3rd European Award in Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities and the accompanying Diener Prize (the only existing Pan-European teaching prize), awarded by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Central European University, Budapest, 2014
Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian
Book: Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, 2010, 352 pages, paperback edition 2013
Co-authored book: B. Trencsényi, M. Janowski, M. Baár, M. Falina, M. Kopeček: A History of Political Thought in East-Central Europe, Oxford University Press
Volume I.: Negotiating Modernity in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’, 2016, 720 pps.
Volume II.: ‘Negotiating Modernity in the Short Twentieth Century and Beyond’, forthcoming in 2017
Selected articles: Historiography/political thought: ‘Echoes of the Social Contract in Central and Eastern Europe, 1770-1825’, in Avi Lifschitz (ed.), Engaging with Rousseau: Reception and Interpretations from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 95-113.
‘Academic Competitions in National History’, in Ilaria Porciani and Jo Tollebeek (eds.) Writing the Nation. Vol. II. Institutions, Networks and Communities of National History: Comparative Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 165-182.
‘East-Central European Historical Writing, 1800-0945’, The Oxford History of Historical Writing (general editor Daniel Woolf), Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 326-348.
Counter-factual history:
Abraham Viskaski. The Patriarch of the Ruritanian Nation, Storia della Storiografia 54 (2008), 2-30.
History of disability: ‘Disability and Civil Courage under State Socialism: the Scandal about the Hungarian Guide Dog School’, Past and Present in 227:1 (May, 2015), 179-203.
History of animals/disability: ‘Prosthesis for the Body and for the Soul: the Origins of Guide Dog Provision in Interwar Germany’, First World War Studies, special issue on Commemorating the Disabled Soldier, Vol. 6:1 (2015), 81-98, open access at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19475020.2015.1047890#abstract
Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective
History of Political Thought: Core group member of the project Negotiating Modernity: the History of Political Thought in East-Central Europe, ERC Starting Research Grant (principal investigator: Dr. Balázs Trencsényi, Central European University)
Eyes that Lead: the History of Guide Dogs for The Blind, project supported by a Wellcome Trust Small Grant in the Medical Humanities
Working knowledge of Slavic languages, Latvian and Romanian
'The Cognitive Dog: Savant or Slacker?', graduate-level course on animal behaviour, Harvard Extension School, Distance Education programme
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Social and behavioural sciences, Simulation of innovation processes in complex social systems
Social and behavioural sciences, Neurocognitive psychology
Social and behavioural sciences, Organization Theory, Gender studies
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology